Rhi Johnson

Rhi Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, specializing in Iberian cultural production across the 18^th and 19^th centuries. Johnson is the editor and translator of the ecocritical anthology of poetry by Galicia’s premier Romantic poet Because I Want to See the Sea: Poems by Rosalía de Castro (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2021), and has a bilingual critical edition of the rediscovered early 20^th-century Floridian-Cuban-Galician poet Feliciano Castro in production with the University of Florida press: Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West, slated for release in October of 2024. The current focus of their research is the intersection of gender studies and new materialisms, explored in the monograph Women and Water: Fluxes of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century.