Reg Johanson

Reg Johanson (born in 1968 ) is Canadian poet and essayist, who works as a composition and literature instructor.

Life
Johanson was born in in Leduc, Alberta. A former member of The Kootenay School of Writing and a founding director of The Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, he teaches at Capilano University in North Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, and is Advisory Editor of Parser (magazine).

His critical writing focuses on the critique of Standard English as a classist and racializing disciplinary practice, the political economy of cheating and plagiarism, the problem of radicalism within a national literary culture and the use of representations in the process of political decomposition.