Michael K. Johnson is professor of English at University of Maine at Farmington. He is author of Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, Can't Stand Still: Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance, and Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi. His work has also been published in African American Review, Literature/Film Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Western American Literature.
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