Samuel Johnson

Doctoral Candidate, University of Miami

Samuel Johnson is a doctoral candidate in the PhD program Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies at the University of Miami. His dissertation, “Amazonian Narratives: Seeking Epistemic and Ecological Justice in the Anthropocene” traces the role of literary, film, and media production emerging from the transnational, intercultural space of the Amazon that preserves, shares, and uplifts of Indigenous ways of knowing and being while seeking justice for the multispecies communities. His research interests include indigenous studies, ecocriticism, climate change, human and non-human rights, social class, and the intersections of these themes in media, literature, and social media in Latin America.