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Head of the Class
May 15, 2013

USC valedictorian Katherine Fu and salutatorians Alexander Fullman and Julia Sabo Mangione — all in USC Dornsife — will…

The Fabulous Fulbrights
May 10, 2013

Congratulations to the nine USC Dornsife students who won 2013 Fulbright Scholarships. The award will take them to India,…

Preventing Another Darfur
April 23, 2013

For the 13th consecutive year, professor Steven Lamy, vice dean for academic programs in USC Dornsife, led the Center for…

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Electric City
May 23, 2013

USC Dornsife’s history chair William Deverell explores the birth of a modern metropolis with the organization of an…

Getting That First Job
May 23, 2013

Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a…

Wall of Scholars
May 21, 2013

The names of top USC Dornsife students will adorn the wall of Leavey Library in an honor celebrating university-wide students…

Catholic Studies Institute Receives $1 Million
May 21, 2013

The gift creates the Steven and Kathryn Sample Endowment for Ecumenism to support research centered on the foundational…

Scientist and Filmmaker
May 17, 2013

Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was…

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Javon Johnson

Postdoctoral Teaching

Contact Information

Office: KAP 455
Phone: (213) 740-2426
E-mail: javon.johnson@usc.edu

Education


  • B.A. Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 06/2003
  • M.A. Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 06/2005
  • Ph.D. Performance Studies, Northwestern University, 07/2010

Postdoctoral Training


  • Visions & Voices 1st Annual Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California , 2010-2011   

Research


Research Keywords


  • Performance, race, gender, sexuality, constructions and representations of Black masculinity, Black pop culture, 20th century African-American literature, poetry slams & contemporary spoken word poetry.

Research Specialties


  • (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2010) Gender Studies Certificate, 2010 with a Cognate in African American Studies, 2010. Performance, Black masculinity, slam and spoken word poetry.