Michael Johnson Jr., PhD, is a full-time instructor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, where he currently teaches both introductory and upper-division interdisciplinary undergraduate courses. His book, Tickle My Fancy, Fat Man: Emerging Images of Race and Queer Desire on HBO, is currently under contract with Lexington Press as part of its Critical Studies in Television Series (in press, fall 2015). His work can be found in the Journal of Men’s Studies, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Educational Studies, and chapters in edited collections by ABC-Clio, Praeger, Palgrave Macmillan, Information Age Press and the University of New Mexico, to name a few.
