Department of English
Ash Johnston
B.A. Psychology, University of Arizona, 2024, M.A. English Literature, University of Connecticut, 2026, B.A. English
Research Interests
20th-century literature, African American Studies and the Black Atlantic, Race and Slavery, Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visual Culture, Literary Theory, Poetry and Poetics
Biography
Ash Johnston (she/they) is a first year PhD student studying English literature at Brown University. Her research focuses on 20th century African American literature, with a particular focus on the relationship between visual culture, and literary and poetic forms that bring about questions of historiography.