Race, Ethnicity and Performance. Special issue of Text and Performance Quarterly. 23.2 April 2003.

“Listening for the Quiet.” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures, 73.3 (2020): 275-277.

“Camp Revival or the Sissification of the Black Church.” Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender, and the Black International, 9.2 (Fall 2020): 30-33.

“The House that Race Built.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, 47.4 (Fall 2020): 678-681.

“In the Quare Light of the Moon: Poverty, Sexuality, and Makeshift Masculinity in Moonlight.” Western Journal of Black Studies 43, no. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2019): 70-79.

“Put a Little Honey in My Sweet Tea: Oral History as Quare Performance.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 44.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2016): 51-67.

“In Search of My Queer Fathers (In Response to Bishop Eddie Long).” Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies 14.2 (April 2014): 124 -127.

“To Be Young, Gifted, and Queer: Race and Sex in the New Black Studies.” The Black Scholar 44.2 (Summer 2014): 50-58.

“Pleasure and Pain in Black Queer Oral History and Performance.” (with Jason Ruiz) QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking 1.2 (Summer 2014): 160-170.

“After You’ve Done All You Can: On Queer Performance and Censorship.” Text and Performance Quarterly 33.3 (July 2013): 212-213.

“A Revelatory Distillation of Experience.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 40.3 (2012): 311-314.

“From Page to Stage: The Making of Sweet Tea.” Text and Performance Quarterly 32.3 (2012): 248-253.

“Queer Epistemologies: Theorizing the Self from a Writerly Placed Called Home.” Biography 34.3 (2011): 429-446.

“Poor ‘Black’ Theatre.” Theatre History Studies 30 (2010): 1-13.

“Stranger Blues: Otherness, Pedagogy, and a Sense of Home.” TriQuarterly 131 (2008): 112-127.

“The Pot Calling the Kettle ‘Black’.” Theatre Journal, 57.4 (2005): 605-608.

“Specter of the Black Fag: Parody, Blackness, & Homo/Heterosexual B(r)others.” Journal of Homosexuality 45.2/3/4 (2003): 217-234.

“Strange Fruit: A Performance About Identity Politics.” The Drama Review, T178 (Summer) 2003: 88-116.

“Performing Blackness Down Under: The Café of the Gate of Salvation.” Text and Performance Quarterly 22 (April 2002): 99-119. Reprinted in 21^st Century African American Social Issues: A Reader. Ed. Anita McDaniel and Clyde McDaniel. New York: Thompson Custom Printing, 2003.

“‘Quare’ Studies Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother.” Text and Performance Quarterly 21 (January 2001): 1-25. Reprinted in Readings on Rhetoric and Performance. Ed. Stephen Olbrys Gencarella and Phaedra C. Pezzullo. State College, PA: Strata, 2010. 233-257. The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory. Ed. Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. 451-469. Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader. Ed. Karen Lovaas and Mercilee Jenkins. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 69-86, 297-300. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Ed. E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 124-157.

“Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African American Gay Community.” Callaloo 21.2 (Winter/Spring 1998): 399-416. Reprinted in The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities. Ed. Delroy Constantine-Simms. Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 2000. 88-109.

“Getting Past the Gate(s): Inclusion/Exclusion in the African American Theoretical Canon of Henry Louis Gates.” Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas 2 (October 1996): 131-140.

“SNAP! Culture: A Different Kind of Reading.” Text and Performance Quarterly 15 (April 1995): 21-42.

“Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues: A Blues Analysis of Gayl Jones’ Eva’s Man.” OBSIDIAN II: Black Literature in Review 9 (Spring/Summer 1994): 26-46.

“Foreword: Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey.” Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment. Eds. Scott Herring and Lee Wallace. Duke University Press, 2021. vii-ix.

“Remember the Time: Black Queer Nightlight in the South.” Queer Nightlife. Eds. Ramon Rivera-Servera, Kareem Khubchandani, and Kemi Adeyemi. University of Michigan Press, 2021. 222-234.

“Foreword.” Underground and Other Plays by Lisa B. Thompson. Northwestern University Press, 2020.

“Put a Little Honey in My Sweet Tea: Oral History as Quare Performance.” Imagining Queer Methods. Eds. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim. New York University Press, 2019. 45-62.

“The Gospel According to the Gays: Queering the Roots of Gospel Music.” Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.” Ed. Fred Haus and Sheila Whiteley. Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Many Stories/One Body: Black Solo Performance from Vaudeville to Spoken Word.” The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, Eds. Thomas DeFrantz, Kathy Perkins, Sandra Richards and Renee Alexander-Craft. Routledge, 2018.

“Introduction.” No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Ed. E. Patrick Johnson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 1-26.

“Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance.” Co-authored with Ramon Rivera-Servera. Blacktino Queer Performance. Eds. E. Patrick Johnson & Ramon H. Rivera-Servera. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 1-18.

“Baldwin’s Theater.” Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin. Ed. Michelle Elam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 85-99.

“Southern (Dis)Comfort: Homosexuality in the Black South.” Creating and Consuming the U.S. South. Eds. William A. Fink, David Brown, Brian Ward, and Martyn Bone. University Press of Florida, 2015. 97-116.

“Foreword.” The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism with U.S. Slave Culture. Vincent Woodard. Eds. Justin Joyce and Dwight McBride. New York University Press, 2014. xi-xiv.

“Black.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Vol. 2. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glen Hendler. New York: New York University Press, 2014. 30-34.

“Introduction.” solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, essays. Eds. E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2013. xv-xxiv.

“Interview with Robbie McCauley.” solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, essays. Eds. E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2013. 59-69.

“Interview with Rhodessa Jones.” solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, essays. Eds. E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2013. 18-26.

“Introduction: Opening and Interpreting Lives.” Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis. Dwight Conquergood. Ed. E. Patrick Johnson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 1-14.

“Gays and Gospel: A Queer History of Sacred Music.” Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads. Eds. Jill Austin and Jennifer Briers. Chicago: Chicago History Museum, 2011. 109 -125.

“Afterword.” Windy City Queer. Eds. Kathie Bergquist. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2011. 237-238.

“Foreword: The Journey From Bourgeois to Boojie.” From Bourgeois to Boojie: Middle Class Performances. Eds. Vershawn Young and Bridget Tsemo. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2011. viii-xxii.

“Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads.” Performance in the Borderlands. Eds. Ramon Rivera-Servera and Harvey Young. New York: Palgrave, 2011. 147 -160.

“Scatter the Pigeons: Baldness and the Performance of Hyper-Black Masculinity.” Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Studies. Eds. Regina E. Spellers and Kimberly R. Moffitt. Hampton, V.A.: Hampton UP, 2010. 147 -156.

“In the Merry Old Land of OZ: Rac(e)ing and Quee(r)ing the Academy.” The Queer Community: Continuing the Struggle for Social Justice. Ed. Richard Johnson, III. San Diego: Birkdale Publishers, 2009. 85-103.

“Going Home Ain’t Always Easy: Ethnography and the Politics of Black Respectability.” Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World. Eds. Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2009. 54-70.

“Queer Theory.” The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies. Ed. Tracy C. Davis. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 166-181.

“Black Performance Studies: Genealogies, Politics, Futures.” Performance Studies Handbook. Eds. D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera. Thousand Oaks, C.A.: Sage, 2005. 446-463.

“Performing Blackness Down Under: Gospel Music in Australia.” Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Performance and Popular Culture. Eds. Harry Elam and Kennell Jackson. Ann Arbor, U of Michigan P, 2005.

“Mother Knows Best: Black Gay Vernacular and Transgressive Domestic Space.” Speaking in Queer Tongues: Gay Language Without Gay English? William L. Leap & Tom Boellstorff. Eds. Champagne: U of Illinois P, 2004.

“Specter of the Black Fag: Parody, Blackness, & Homo/Heterosexual B(r)others.” Queering Communication: Theory, Research, and Interventions. Ed. Gust A. Yep. Binghamton, New York: Haworth Press, 2003. [reprint]

“SNAP! Culture: A Different Kind of Reading.” Performance: Critical Concepts Vol. 4. Phil Auslander. Ed. New York: Routledge, 2003. [reprint]

“Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African American Gay Community.” The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities. Delroy Constantine-Simms. Ed. Boston: Alyson Press, 2001: 88-109. [reprint]

Mignon Moore’s Invisible Lives: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood. National Political Science Review 16 (2014): 181-183.

Michael Long’s I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters. The Black Scholar 42.3/4 (Fall-Winter 2012): 62-63.

Brock Thompson’s The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South. Teachers College Record, 2011,-http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 16477. July 18, 2011.

“Out/Look from the Rearview Mirror.” Outlook & The Birth of the Queer 18 (Fall 2017): 23.

“The Scene in Wyoming.”  Callaloo 23.1 (Spring 2000):  122-124.

“All in the Family: Queering the Projects.” If We Have to Take Tomorrow. Eds. Frank Leon Roberts & Marvin K. White. Los Angeles: The Institute of Gay Men’s Health. (2006): 41-46.

Liner Notes.  Black Gospel Down Under.  Compact Disc.  Australia Broadcast Company, 2002.

“Coda” from “Black Quare Studies.”  Callaloo 23.1 (Spring 2000): 120-121.

Quare—An Autobiography of the Mother Within.  An experimental memoir exploring race, class, gender, sexuality.  Book Manuscript.

Camp Revival: Queering Gender in the Black Church {Tentative title}.  Book manuscript on the camp aesthetic in the black church as an expression of non-normative gender expression.