North Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 1pm

Francesca T. Royster is Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, and received her PhD in English from University of California, Berkeley. She’s written scholarly work on Shakespeare, Black Lesbian Country music fans, Prince, and Fela Kuti on Broadway among other topics. Her books include Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (2022), which won the 2023 Ralph Gleason Popular Music Book First Prize; Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (2023); Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (2013), and Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (2003).