E. PATRICK JOHNSON
Scholar & Artist
E. Patrick Johnson is Dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is a 2020 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A pioneer in the formation and codification of Black sexuality studies as a field of study in the academy. Unique in his ability to blur the line between traditional modes of scholarly and artistic production. The author of several books, including Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (2003); Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (2008); Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (2018); Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (2019), in addition to a number of edited and co-edited collections, essays, and plays.
Events
April 19-23, 2022
March 31, 2022
March 30, 2022
“HoneyPot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women” Book reading & signing, VCU
March 29, 2022
February 24, 2022
“Camp Revival: Queering Gender and Sexuality in the Black Church,” Duke University
February 22, 2022
February 15, 2022
