Department of English

 

Thomas Johnson is a PhD candidate in the English Department. He is writing his dissertation on representations of the supernatural in American “prestige” television. His scholarship broadly concerns the relationship between genre and aesthetic hierarchies in contemporary television, film, and 20th and 21st-century literature. His review of HBO’s Watchmen is featured in a recent issue of Oxford UP’s journal Adaptation. His monograph on HBO’s The Leftovers, co-authored with Kyle Meikle of the University of Baltimore, is under contract as part of Wayne State UP’s TV Milestones series for scheduled release in 2024.