Paul Michael Johnson

Paul Michael Johnson is associate research professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean (Toronto, 2021), in addition to scholarly and public-facing essays on such topics as the body, race, gender, translation, satire, popular media, and public monuments.


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Can Centuries-Old Nuns Really Save Us from Ourselves?

“Can looking to women beholden to God help us escape a society so fixated on itself? Or does it simply package those devout lives as the latest content for a culture industry desperate for the next trending topic?”