About this Event:

New Orleans is among the most storied cities in the world, and, through a wide range of writers, has come to occupy a singular place in the human imagination. Though important writers have come from or engaged virtually every neighborhood in the city, Johnson will speak about the oldest and most significant literary legacy, the one associated with the first dozen blocks of Royal Street. 

 About the Speaker:

T. R. Johnson is a Professor of English and Weiss Presidential Fellow at Tulane University.  He has also taught at universities in Boston and Louisville.  He has lived in the 9th Ward of New Orleans, near the river, since 1999 and has hosted a jazz radio program at WWOZ 90.7 FM here in New Orleans for nearly 25 years.  He has written books about psychoanalysis and about prose style,  and is the editor of New Orleans: A Literary History (2019) and New Orleans:  A Writer’s City (2023), both published by Cambridge University Press. 

This lecture is made possible with support from the City of New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy.