Publications

Peer reviewed

M. Johnson, “Performances of exposure and ethical spectatorship in Hanna Cormick’s The Mermaid,” Performance Research 26.6 (forthcoming 2022).

K. Blair and M. Johnson, ““I am Invictus”: Parasport, the Invictus Games, and Disability Performance in Canada,” Theatre Research in Canada 43.1 (forthcoming 2022).

E. Chandler and M. Johnson, “Reflections on crip imitations as cultural space-making,” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 15.4 (fall 2021): 381-399.

M. Bunch, M. Johnson, S. Moro, M. Adams, and L. Sergio. “Virtual Reality Hope Machines in a Curative Imaginary: Recommendations for Neurorehabilitation Research from a Critical Disability Studies Perspective,” Disability and Rehabilitation (2021): doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2021.1982024

M. Johnson, “Sounding a Crip Aesthetic: Transforming the Sonic in Samuel Beckett’s Not I.” Performance Matters 6.2 (fall 2020): 67-84.

E. Chandler, M. Johnson, B. Gold, C. Rice, and A. Bulmer. “Cripping the Flâneur: walking together as sense-making.” Journal of Public Pedagogies 4 (2019): 82-96.

Non Refereed

M. Johnson and M. King, guest editors. Sound and Performance, special issue Canadian Theatre Review 184 (2020): 1-92

K. Acton, K. Jung, M. Johnson, A. Louw, A. McAskill, M. Simões Peres, S. Quest, and J. Watkin. “Being in Relationship: Reflections on Dis-Performing, Hospitality, and Accessibility,” Canadian Theatre Review 177 (2019): 51-56.

M. Johnson, “Integrating Accessibility and Aesthetics Onstage in Neworld Theatre’s King Arthur’s Night,” Canadian Theatre Review 176 (2018): 102-106.
Nominated for the Canadian Theatre Critics Association’s Nathan Cohen Award in 2019

Invited talks

“Reconceptualizing Access through Disability Art and Performance” Performing Arts Research Forum, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS. January 20.

“Sounding a Crip Aesthetic: Transforming the Sonic in Beckett’s Not I,” Revolutions in Sound: Disrupting Oppression through Revolutions in Sound, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD, USA - February 2020.

Papers Presented

“Crip aesthetics and sonic revolt in disability performance,” Revolutions in Sound: Performance Studies Tools for Sound Theory in the Flesh panel, American Studies Association, Online - October 2021

M. Bunch and M. Johnson, “Language Games of Cure in a Study Testing Augmented Neurorehabilitation Technology,” VISTA Research Retreat, York University, Online - February 2021.

"Disability temporalities: The emancipatory potential of performing sickness,” ALTER—European Society for Disability Research, University of Cologne, Cologne DE- September 2019.

M. Johnson and B. Gold. "Support, Access, & Interdependence (reflections on a research project),” Vibe Symposium: Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts, Concordia University, Montreal QC - December 2018.

"The performative temporalities of sickness," Sick Theories: A Trans-Disciplinary Conference on Sickness and Sexuality, University of Toronto, Toronto ON - November 2018.

“Interdependence as Infrastructure in Disability Performance,” Canadian Association of Theatre Research, Queen’s University, Kingston ON - May 2018.

“What Do You Hear When I Sing This?” Performance-Discuss, Theatre & Performance Studies Graduate Students’ Association, York University, Toronto ON - March 2017.

“Transgressing Corporeal Boundaries: The Politicized Dancing Body,” Symposium for Research [In]Between and Beside Bodies, Movement, and Performance, York University, Toronto ON - October 2016.

“Phenomenology of Performance: Exploring Musical Meaning in the Performing Body,” Music and the Creation of Meaning Symposium, International Network for Alternative Academia, Montreal QC - November 2012.

Panels and Seminars Organized

M.Johnson and M. King. “Excavating Sound: Shaping a Performance/Sound Studies Forum,” Canadian Association of Theatre Research, Queen’s University, Kingston ON - May 2018.

Working Groups

Disability, Pedagogies, and Performance Working Group, Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR), Online - 2018-2021.

Performance Activism for a Just Transition Working Group, Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR), Online - July 2021.

Disability and Performance Working Group, International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Online - July 2020.

Mobilities Pedagogies Symposium, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON - March 2018.

Disability and Performance Working Group, HEMI Graduate Student Conference, Toronto ON - October 2017.

The Stage Witch as a Sign of the Shifting Paradigms of Embodiment Working Session, American Society for Theater Research (ASTR), Atlanta GA - November 2017.

Conference Planning Committees

• Accessibility Committee, Canadian Association of Theatre Research Conference, Lethbridge, AB + Online - Summer 2022.

• Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Conference, Berkeley CA, USA - June 2017.

• York University Theatre & Performance Studies Graduate Students’ Association Annual Symposium, Toronto ON - March 2017.

Education

YORK UNIVERSITY
Ph.D., Theatre & Performance Studies, 2022 (expected)
M.A., Theatre & Performance Studies, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
M.A., Musicology, 2012

ACADIA UNIVERSITY
B.Mus., Vocal Performance, 2009

volunteer work

• Choirs for Change Board Co-Chair // September 2021 – Current

• Tangled Art + Disability // January 2017 – March 2020

• Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Canada Board Member // February 2019 – August 2021

• York University T&PS Graduate Students' Association // September 2016 – August 2018 & September 2019 – August 2020

• Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Conference Programming Committee // January 2017 – April 2017

• Bay Area Playwrights National Reading Committee // October 2016 – February 2018

• University of Ottawa Graduate Music Students' Association // September 2008 – May 2009