Javon Johnson | |
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| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, writer, professor |
| Title | Assistant Professor and Director of African American and African Diaspora Studies |
| Academic background | |
| Education | California State University, Los Angeles |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Thesis | My Words Dance: Doing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Slam and Spoken Word Poetry Communities in Los Angeles and Chicago (2010) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Performance studies |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | Slam poetry |
| Notable works | Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities |
Javon Johnson is an American spoken word poet, writer, and professor. He is the director of African American and African Diaspora Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities.[1][2][3]