Writers at Rutgers Reading Series with Mat Johnson
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 on 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 University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program and English Department.
Writers at Rutgers is an exchange between distinguished writers of diverse backgrounds and university students and faculty. This free event includes an author reading, Q&A session, book signing, and refreshments.