David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the English Department. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and Sussex University, and has taught at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (Durban). He has written Open University teaching material for courses on Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Postcolonial Literatures, Eighteenth-Century Writing, and Twentieth-Century Literature. Some of this material has been co-published: with Richard Danson Brown Shakespeare 1609: ‘Cymbeline’ and the ‘Sonnets’ (Macmillan, 2000); edited with Richard Danson Brown A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism (Macmillan, 2000); edited The Popular and the Canonical. Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940-2000 (Routledge, 2005); edited with Suman Gupta A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates (Routledge, 2005); and edited with Anita Pacheco The Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2012).
He is the author of the monographs Shakespeare and South Africa (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Imagining the Cape Colony. History, Literature and the South African Nation (Edinburgh University Press, 2012); the principal author with Steve Pete and Max du Plessis of Jurisprudence: A South African Perspective (Butterworths, 2001); and the co-editor with Prem Poddar of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh/ Columbia University Press, 2005). He is the series editor with Ania Loomba of the Edinburgh University Press series Postcolonial Literary Studies.
Shakespeare Studies, Post-colonial Literature and Theory, Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing, Southern African Studies, Law and Literature.
