Kendall A. JOHNSON 莊競滔 (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
Early American, British, and European literatures and history; material print culture in a transnational and global historical frame
Profile:
Kendall Johnson is Professor in the School of English, The University of Hong Kong.
He is a Life Member of the HKAH.
As an interdisciplinary scholar of early American, British, and European literatures and history, Prof. Johnson researches material print culture in a transnational and global historical frame. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was an Associate Professor of Early American Literature at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He was a Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor in American Studies at The University of Hong Kong for the 2008‐2009 academic year. After joining HKU he served as the Director the American Studies Programme (2010-2014) and the Head of the School of Modern Languages and cultures (2011-2017).
His most recent single‐authored book is The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). Other publications include Henry James and the Visual (Cambridge University Press, 2007; 2011), Narratives of Free Trade in Early US-China Relations (Hong Kong University Press, 2010; contributing editor), the Critical Companion to Henry James (FactsOnFile 2009, with Eric L. Haralson) and several essays on Native American literature, among them "Imagining Self and Community in Native American Autobiography" in *The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945* (Columbia University Press 2006; edited by Eric Cheyfitz). His articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, American Literary History (ALH), American Literature, American Quarterly, and elsewhere.
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