"The New Slave Narrative: Advocacy and Human Rights in Stories of Contemporary Slavery." Journal of Human Rights 12.3 (forthcoming, September 2013).
Julia Alvarez: Writing a New Place on the Map. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
"Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon." Writing Of(f) the Hyphen: Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Ed. José Torres-Padilla and Carmen H. Rivera. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008, 239-55.
"Writing Deeper Maps: Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women's Writing." Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.4 (Winter 2007), 103-20.
"'The Terrible Moral Disinheritance of Exile': Asymptosy and Dis-integration in Julia Alvarez's In the Name of Salomé." Journal of Caribbean Literatures 4.1 (Fall 2005).
"Acts of War, Acts of Memory: 'Dead-Body Politics' in U. S. Latina Fiction of the Salvadoran Civil War." Latino Studies 3.1 (Fall 2005): 200-225.
"Violence in the Borderlands: Crossing to the Home Space in the Novels of Ana Castillo." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25.1 (Spring 2004): 39-58.
"Both Sides of the Massacre: Collective Memory and Narrative on Hispaniola." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36.2 (June 2003): 75-91.
"Lost in el olvido: Translation and Collective Memory in Achy Obejas's Days of Awe."The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe 27.2 (Spring 2004).
Dr. Johnson is working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled "'This Is My Story': The New Slave Narrative." This book offers the first analysis of narratives told (and sometimes written) by people enslaved in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These first-person narratives create a critical intersection between international human rights law and human rights advocacy, activism, and service.