Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, Prof. Johnson was an Associate Professor of Early American Literature at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. He was a Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor in American Studies at The University of Hong Kong for the 2008‐2009 academic year. After joining HKU he has served as the Director the American Studies Programme (2010-2014) and the Head of the School of Modern Languages and cultures (2011-2017). His most recent single‐authored book is The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). Other publications include Henry James and the Visual (Cambridge University Press, 2007; 2011), Narratives of Free Trade in Early US-China Relations (Hong Kong University Press, 2010; contributing editor), the Critical Companion to Henry James (FactsOnFile 2009, with Eric L. Haralson) and several essays on Native American literature, among them “Imagining Self and Community in Native American Autobiography” which appears in The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 (Columbia University Press 2006; edited by Eric Cheyfitz). His articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, American Literary History (ALH), American Literature, American Quarterly, and elsewhere.