Elondust Patrick Johnson

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Elondust Patrick Johnson (born March 1, 1967 in Hickory , North Carolina ) (mostly E. Patrick Johnson ) is an American sociologist and author .

Life

Johnson studied sociology at the University of North Carolina , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Louisiana State University . Since 2000 he has been a professor at Northwestern University for Performance Studies and African American Studies . His focus is on the topics of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and representation.

Works (selection)

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

Other works

  • Blacktino Queer Performance (together 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. (together with Ramon Rivera-Servera), Northwestern University Press, 2013
  • Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology . (together with Mae G. Henderson), Duke University Press, 2005

Articles in journals (selection)

  • "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' Theater." Theater 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'." Theater 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 / Sömmer 1994): 26-46.

Awards and prizes (selection)

  • 2004: Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theater Studies
  • 2005: Martin Duberman Fellowship
  • 2010: Leslie Irene Coger Award
  • 2010: Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame
  • 2014: Rene Castillo Otto Award for Political Theater
  • 2020: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c E. Patrick Johnson | Northwestern School of Communication. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dukepress.edu: honeypot, Black Southern Women Who Love Women
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Elondust Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist, author, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hickory , North Carolina