Tareva Johnson
Lecturer
Contact
Department of English
Office: 517 Strode
Email: tarevaj@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. English Literature, University of Georgia (2022); MA English Literature, University of Georgia (2012); BA English, Columbia University (2008)
Courses
ENGL 2160 African American Literature; ENGL 1030: Composition & Rhetoric
Research Interests
African American Literature, the Global South, Black Musical Traditions
Tareva Johnson is a Lecturer of English at Clemson University. In her literature courses, she teaches about Black experiences in the U.S. chronicled and novelly explained in the works of Black women writers and the genre of Black Horror. She earned her doctorate in English and a graduate certificate in African American studies from The University of Georgia. Her work-in-progress is entitled Blackness is a Place: James Baldwin and the Spatiality of Black Lives in the U.S. which considers the regional patterns of social control, Black cultural production, and responses to both in Baldwin’s works and beyond.
