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Christopher Johnson

Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature

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Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson

Title: Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature

Institution: UCL

Discipline: History & Cultural Studies

Appearances: 1

Notable: Author of 'Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought' (Harvard UP, 2010) and 'Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images' (Cornell UP, 2012); translator of Francisco de Quevedo's Selected Poetry (Chicago UP, 2009); PhD in comparative literature from NYU

Biography

Scholar of early modern literature who has taught comparative literature at Harvard and early modern English literature at Northwestern. His work spans Spanish and English early modern literature, the rhetoric of excess in Baroque thought, and Aby Warburg's visual atlas project.

Sample Works

Roundtable Appearances

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2
October 13, 9:30 AM - 4:15 PM, 2013 · ▶ Video
Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2
Continuation of the two-day symposium examining Warburg's concepts including memory in relation to artistic creation, neuroplasticity, and neuroesthetics. Focus areas include "the...
Art & Aesthetics Interdisciplinary Memory
Francois Ansermet, Cristina Alberini, Siri Hustvedt, Christopher Johnson, Joseph LeDoux, Peter Loewenberg, Pierre Magistretti, Spyros Papapetros, Robert Penzer, Louis Rose
Podcast (1:07:45)
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