Professor Johnson regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, San Diego. She has served on over fifty doctoral and MFA committees. Her former students have gone on to various postdoctoral fellowships and to tenure-track jobs at institutions including the University of Oregon, the University of North Carolina, California State University, the College of William and Mary, the University of New Orleans, Brown University, Brigham Young University, the University of Arizona, Tulane University, MiraCosta College, East Stroudsburg University, Texas A &M, Palomar Community College, the University of California, San Diego, Yale University, and Florida International University. Her faculty profile can be found here.

Selected Undergraduate and Graduate Courses:

• Comparative Caribbean Discourse

• Transcolonial American Studies

• Introduction to American Literature

• La narrativa cubana

• Comparative American Slavery in the Age of Revolution

• Inter-American Prose

• La isla que se repite

• Slavery and the Literary Imagination

• Revolutionary Art: Cuban Popular Culture

• The World of Jane Austen

• Salsa Music: Style and Substance

Johnson regularly advises PhD students in topics that include Caribbean Studies and (Vast) Early American Studies.