Anna Johnson
Faculties, departments and locations
- ΢ÃÜȦ School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Lecturer
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
Anna Johnson (she/her) lives and works in East London. Alongside teaching, she is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at ΢ÃÜȦ.
Johnson's life-writing practice focuses on motherhood experience, in particular a recurring connection between her experience of motherhood and ideas of haunting, of presence and absence and repetition (daily and generational).
She is interested in theories of the spectral, intersectionality, queerness, feminism, disability, failure and anecdote, amongst others, and in how we might aspire to transform and re-possess language in an attempt to express the ineffable. Her work is also reflective of a complex intersectionality that Johnson sees as fundamental to life-writing. As such, it encompasses issues including neurodiversity and chronic illness.
Qualifications
- PhD Creative Writing (underway)
- MA Fine Art
- BA (Hons) First Class, History and Theory of Art
Domains
Anna is currently teaching on MA Creative Writing and MA English Literature modules
Courses taught
Recent publications/events
- 2022: Failure: the Ghost and the Mother, Alluvium Journal, Special Edition 10.1
- 2021: Failure: the Ghost and the Mother, talk at BACLS-WHN 2021 Virtual Conference
- 2021: An Intersection of Motherhood and Chronic Illness, chapter in From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press
- 2021: Cascading Transitions: Becoming a Writer and Engaging with Neurodiversity in Response to Motherhood, chapter in Women in Transition: Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders, Routledge
- 2021: Race/Gender Matters Research Group Event: ‘Failure and Care' with Lisa Baraitser, ΢ÃÜȦ
- 2020: I so wanted to ask you… video piece, Writers' Centre ΢ÃÜȦ
- 2019: Illness/Parenting/Writing, performance, Writers' Centre ΢ÃÜȦ
- 2019: The Role of ‘Place' in My Creative Life-Writing Practice, talk, Genos/Matter/Theory Conference, ΢ÃÜȦ
- 2018: Cascading Transitions: Becoming a Writer and Engaging with Neurodiversity in Response to Motherhood, talk, Women in Transition Conference, Kings and Oxford
- 2018: Objects of a Maternal Haunting, chapter in Everyday World-Making: Towards an Understanding of Affect and Mothering, Demeter Press
Specialisms
- maternal studies
- feminist studies
- life writing
- neurodiversity