Join us on March 11th for the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series featuring Mat Johnson. Johnson has explored the complexities of American racial identity through satire, historical fiction, and graphic novels. Drawing on his experiences as the son of a Black mother and an Irish-American father, Johnson offers readers and audiences a nuanced, challenging view of what it means to be a person of color in America throughout history and today.
In lectures that explore race, identity, and the writing process, Mat Johnson unravels the themes that run through his work with humor, scholarship, and insight. He has received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was the first person to be named a James Baldwin Fellow. Johnson is a professor at the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program and English Department.
The public reading and book signing will occur at 7:30 PM in the Rutgers Student Center. Rutgers students, faculty, and staff are also invited to attend a Q&A with the author at 4:00 PM in Murray Hall, room 302 (third floor).