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E. Patrick Johnson is an American writer, editor, researcher, performer, professor, and dean of the Northwestern University School of Communication. His scholarly and artistic contributions focus on performance studies, African-American studies and women, gender and sexuality studies. Johnson was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina. He received both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in speech communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Johnson taught performance studies at Amherst College before being hired at Northwestern where he chaired the departments of performance studies and African-American studies. He founded Northwestern University's Black Arts Initiative in 2012 and in 2022 became the seventh Dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the first Black person to serve in the position. Johnson is the author of several books exploring the experiences of queer Black residents of the American South. In 2009, he adapted one of his books, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History into a stage play. Sweet Tea–The Play premiered in 2010 to critical acclaim.

Early life & education
Johnson was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina, and was both a first-generation college student and the first Black person from his hometown to receive a doctorate degree. He completed both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in speech communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.

Career
"He came to Northwestern from Amherst College as an assistant professor of performance studies."

"He has served in multiple roles [at Northwestern], including serving as chair of the departments of performance studies and African American studies."

He is the founder and director of the Black Arts Initiative at Northwestern.

2022, Dean of Communication, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University; Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies Seventh dean of the school and first Black person to hold that position

Wrote Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, published in 2003 Wrote Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South in 2008 Wrote Black Queer Studies

''Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History'' (2018) Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women (2019)

"Johnson’s has toured his one-man show, Strange Fruit, an autobiographical mediation on race, gender, class and region to over 30 college campuses from 1998 – 2003."

"In 2009, he translated the staged reading of Pouring Tea into a full-length stage play, Sweet Tea—The Play, which was co-produced by About Face Theater and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media at Columbia College, Chicago. The play had its world premiere in April 2010 and had a month run to rave reviews. He won a Black Theatre Alliance Award for Best Solo Performance for the show. In Fall 2011, the show had a 4-week run at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia."

"Gays and Gospel" at Chicago History Museum One-man play Sweet Tea

"The full-length stage play, Sweet Tea—The Play, premiered in Chicago, toured across 8 other cities, and to the National Black Theater Festival."

"co-executive producer of the film, Making Sweet Tea, which has received several awards, including Best LGBTQ Film at the San Diego Film Festival, Best Documentary Audience at the Out on Film Festival, and the Silver Image Award from the Association of American Retired Persons (AARP) for Positive Representation of LGBTQ People Over Fifty at the Chicago Reeling LGBTQ Film Festival."

Influence
Johnson's introduction of "quare" as a theoretical concept became particularly influential in the fields of queer theory, women, gender, and sexuality studies, and black studies. Originally published in Text & Performance Quarterly, "'Quare' Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother" went on to be reprinted numerous times. "Quare" signaled a significant departure from the lack of engagement with race and class by queer theorists and with gender and sexuality among black studies scholars.

Sweet Tea—The Play
Inspired to present a more comprehensive version of Sweet Tea and the men that Johnson interviewed, in 2006 he created a solo Reader's Theater performance, called Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, based on selected stories of the men that he interviewed. Pouring Tea toured across the country to over 100 universities, conferences and events over a decade. In 2010, in collaboration with Jane M. Saks, Columbia College and About Face Theatre Company in Chicago, Johnson developed the show into full production called Sweet Tea—The Play. After its Chicago debut, the show traveled to Austin, Texas to the Warfield Center (2010), Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia in 2011; Dixon Place in New York City (2012), the Durham Arts Council (2014), Rites and Reasons Theater in Providence, Rhode Island (2014), Towne Street Theater in Hollywood, California (2015), Northwestern University's Wirtz Center (2015), and to the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, NC (2015). Johnson won the Black Theater Alliance Bert Williams Award for Best Solo Performance for the show in 2010.

Honey Pot
This text (2019) is the creative nonfiction companion to ''Black. Queer. Southern. Women—An Oral History'' and the story is loosely based on women who participated in Johnson's study.

Books

 * Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women, University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
 * Black. Queer. Southern. Women—An Oral History, University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
 * Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History, University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
 * Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. Duke University Press, 2003.

Edited collections

 * Blacktino Queer Performance (with Ramon Rivera-Servera). Duke University Press, 2016.
 * No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Duke University Press, 2016.
 * Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis. Edited collection of essays by Dwight Conquergood. University of Michigan Press, 2013.
 * solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, essays. (with Ramon Rivera-Servera), Northwestern University Press, 2013.
 * Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. (with Mae G. Henderson), Duke University Press, 2005.

Journal articles

 * "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 21st 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.

Honors
In 1996 the Hickory City Council honored Johnson with his own day, citing his accomplishments as the first African American born and raised in Hickory to earn a Ph.D. "Johnson was honored by [his hometown] on July 26, 1996, after black residents persuaded the City Council to proclaim the day in his honor."

2010 Esteem Award for contributions to Chicago’s black LGBT communities.

"Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association. The NCA’s highest honor, the award recognizes members for a full career of distinguished scholarly achievement in the area of communication studies."

In 2015, Johnson received the Oscar Brockett Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Association of Theatres in Higher Education.

In 2010, Johnson was inducted into the Chicago Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Hall of Fame "for his leadership in the African-American LGBT community."