2008 Andrea Carson Coley Lecture:

Dr. E. Patrick Johnson

Pouring Tea:
Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales

Dr. E. Patrick Johnson will deliver the 14th annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture on April 4, 2008, at 12:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith auditorium, located in the Georgia Museum of Art.

Athens, Ga. – Dr. E. Patrick Johnson, Professor, Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies and Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, will give the 14th annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture on “Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales,” on Friday, April 4, at 12:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium in the Georgia Museum of Art. A reception honoring the Coley family will precede the lecture at 11:30 a.m. in the GMOA lobby.

Based on excerpts from his forthcoming book, Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Gay Black Men of the South," Johnson looks at the relationship between race, sexuality and southern culture through his interviews with approximately 70 men from three generations. Johnson has published widely in the areas of race, gender, sexuality and performance. His book Appropriating Blackness; Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke U Press, 2003) has won several awards, including the Lila A. Heston Award and the Errol Hill Book Award. His next project is a book of auto-ethnographic essays on race, class and gender.

The Andrea Carson Coley Lecture in Women’s Studies was endowed through a donation made by Andrew and Kathy Coley in memory of their daughter Andrea Carson Coley (1972-1993), who was a certificate candidate in Women's Studies. Each spring, the lecture brings to campus scholars doing cutting-edge research in the area of lesbian and gay studies.

Women's Studies is honored to have Dr. Patrick as our 2008 Andrea Carson Coley Lecturer. This year's lecture will be April 4, at 12:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith auditorium, located in the Georgia Museum of Art on the University of Georgia campus. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information contact Molly Moreland Myers.