Ian C Johnston

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Occupation Professor (retired) Language English		Name Ian Johnston
Books The Metamorphosis and Other Selected Short Works

Ian C. Johnston (born September 27, 1938) is a retired university-college instructor and a professor emeritus at Vancouver Island University.

Personal life

He was born in Valparaíso, Chile, to Dorothy and Kenneth Johnston. He now lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, with his wife, Colleen Johnston.

Education

Johnston attended the University of Toronto Schools during his high school years. At the post-secondary level, he was educated at McGill University, Montreal (BSC in Geology and Chemistry 1959); at the University of Bristol (BA in English and Greek, 1968); and at the University of Toronto (MA in English, 1969).

He also holds certificates from Ontario College of Education, Heidelberg University, and the Jarvis School of Welding.

Teaching career

Johnston taught high-school physics and chemistry at Upper Canada College, Toronto (1959–60) and high-school biology, mathematics, and Latin at Port Perry High School, Port Perry, Ontario (1961-1963). From 1969-70 he taught undergraduate English courses at the University of British Columbia. After that he joined the faculty of the College of New Caledonia, Prince George, British Columbia, where he taught undergraduate English and Classics from 1970 to 1975. From 1975-2004 he taught at Malaspina College and Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo (now Vancouver Island University).

Publications and Other Work

Johnston is the author of The Ironies of War: An Introduction to Homer’s Iliad (University Press of America, 1987). A versatile translator, he has translated classic works from Greek, Latin, German, and French. Several of these translated works have been published by Broadview Press (perhaps most notably, his widely acclaimed translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis), and/or produced as audiobooks by Naxos Audio Books in the UK. (Broadview also published his Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays in 2015.) A number of his translations have also been issued in book form by Richer Resources Publications. Johnston has posted over 75 essays and lectures on various literary topics on his website, as well as workbooks on essay writing, grammar, statistics, and the history of science.

Translations by Ian Johnston

Aeschylus, Oresteia

Aeschylus, Persians

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus, Suppliant Women

Aristophanes, Birds

Aristophanes, Clouds

Aristophanes, Frogs

Aristophanes, Knights

Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Aristophanes, Peace

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Abridged)

Cuvier, On the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth

Diderot, D’Alembert’s Dream

Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew

Descartes, Discourse on Method

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

Euripides, Bacchae

Euripides, Electra

Euripides, Medea

Euripides, Orestes

Homer, Iliad (complete and abridged)

Homer, Odyssey (complete and abridged)

Kafka, Metamorphosis, Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

Kant, On Perpetual Peace

Kant, Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens

Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy, Volume I

Lucretius, The Nature of Things

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy

Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Rousseau, On the Sciences and the Arts

Rousseau, On the Origin of Inequality

Rousseau, Social Contract

Sophocles, Ajax

Sophocles, Antigone

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

Sophocles, Philoctetes

All of Ian Johnston’s translations, lectures, reviews, and workbooks are available on his website johnstonia.

References

Ian C. Johnston Wikipedia

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