Emily K. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English (Technical Communication and Digital Humanities), graduate faculty in the Technical Communication MA program, and core faculty in the Texts and Technology Ph.D. program. She is co-author of Critical Making in the Age of AI (with Anastasia Salter, Amherst, 2025) and Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic: Pivoting to Games-Based Learning (Routledge, 2022). She is currently Principal Investigator on a U.S. Department of Education-funded project investigating the efficacy of five co-designed video games for language learning. Her work appears in Communication Design Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, Computers and Education, and the Journal for Universal Computer Science.
