E. Patrick Johnson is Professor and Chair in the Department of Performance Studies and Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is also a Fellow at the ESB Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College. A scholar/artist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality and performance. He is the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity published by Duke University Press in 2003, which won several awards, including the Lilla A. Heston Award, the Errol Hill Book Award, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He is also co-editor (with Mae G. Henderson) of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology with Duke University Press (2005). His most recent book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (2008), is published by the University of North Carolina Press.
