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J †Johnson

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jtj@sas.upenn.edu

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J †Johnson (they/them) is the author of Janky Materiality: Artifice & Interface (punctum books, 2025), The Book / Or / The Woods (punctum books, 2021), and Trouble Songs: A Musicological Poetics (punctum books, 2018). JJ co-edits the horror poetics journal Cul-de-sac of Blood, is a staff writer at MovieJawn, and lives in Philadelphia.

Courses Taught

ENGL 3207.301 I was a Teenage Monster: Coming of Age in Speculative Writing

ENGL 127.301 Writing through Chance Operations

ENGL 010.302 Intro to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

ENGL 435.640 Writing Through Music   

Books

  • Cover art for Trouble Songs
  • Cover art for The Book / Or / The Woods

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