E. Patrick Johnson is the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is also an Artistic Fellow at the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College, Chicago. A scholar, artist, and activist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality and performance. He has written two award-winning books: Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, which won the Lilla A. Heston Award, the Errol Hill Book Award, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, which was recognized as a Stonewall Book Award Honor Book by the LGBT Round Table of the American Library Association.
