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E. Patrick Johnson

Department of Performance Studies

E. Patrick Johnson has published widely in the areas of race, class and gender, and performance. His first book, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, published by Duke University Press in 2003, which dealt with cultural, social, and political battles over origin, ownership, circulation, and performance, won several awards. In addition to his published work, Johnson is also a performing artist. He toured his one-man show, "Strange Fruit", around the country between 1999 and 2004. He is currently performing staged readings of "Sweet Tea," based on the oral histories of black gay men of the South. He is working on an anthology of black queer performance texts and researching queer sexuality and performance in the black church.

Education

PhD	Speech Communication, Louisiana State University
MA	Speech Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
BA	Speech Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Publications

Johnson, E. Patrick (Forthcoming 2007). Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South, University of North Carolina Press.

Johnson, E. Patrick and Mae Henderson, co-editors (2005). Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Duke University Press.

Johnson, E. Patrick (October, 2003). Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. Duke University Press.

Recent Awards and Honors

Clarence Ver Steeg Award. Northwestern University Graduate School, 2007

Martin Duberman Fellowship, 2005. Awarded by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CUNY)

Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theatre Studies, 2004. Awarded by the American Society for Theatre Research.

Courses

307	Studies in Gender and Performance
316	Folklore and Oral Traditions
515	Postmodern Performance