CV: https://abjohnson.net/vita/Experienced teacher, academic advisor, faculty member, committee member and leader, program leader, department- and university-level curriculum developer, department chair, and faculty president.My scholarship has explored not only traditional storytelling in print but also communication and storytelling through film, comics, transmedia, and other visual and multimodal forms. The work is unified by my continuing interests in improvisation and innovation, both inside communities and within storytelling forms. Research and Teaching Interests: twentieth century and contemporary American literature; American immigrant literature; postmodern literature, culture, and theory; writing and composition pedagogy; computers and writing; visual narratives (film and media studies, including comics/graphic novels); social network theory; experience-based/immersive learning