E. Patrick Johnson

About the Author

E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, the coeditor of Blacktino Queer Performance and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of show more Authenticity, all also published by Duke University Press. show less

Works by E. Patrick Johnson

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Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (2005) 187 copies

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (2008) 130 copies

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (2016) 80 copies

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (2003) 67 copies

Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (2019) 45 copies

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History (2018) 38 copies

Blacktino Queer Performance (2016) — Editor — 17 copies

solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, and essays (2013) 5 copies

Sweet Tea: A Play (2020) 3 copies

"Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother. In Text and Performance Quarterly 21(1) 1 copy

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The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures, 34) (2014) — Foreword — 154 copies, 1 review

Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language (2003) — Contributor — 27 copies

Windy City Queer: LGBTQ Dispatches from the Third Coast (2011) — Contributor — 19 copies

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Birthdate: 1967-03-01
Gender: male
Occupations: professor (performance studies)
Organizations: Northwestern University
ESB Institute, Columbia College Chicago
Short biography: Acclaimed American academic, performance artist, and author. Currently serves as Dean of the School of Communication and Carlos Montezuma Professor at Northwestern University. Author of seminal works including Appropriating Blackness and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South. Explicitly self-identifies as a gay man.
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Hickory, North Carolina, USA
Associated Place (for map): North Carolina, USA