Lambda Literary Award finalist Jacqueline Taylor, dean of DePaul University’s College of Communication, will read from her nominated book, “Waiting for the Call,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, at the Gerber/Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville Ave., Chicago.

Taylor, whose book was nominated in the women’s memoir/biography category, is one of five Lambda Literary finalists reading from their books that evening. The event is being hosted by the Gerber/Hart Library and the Lambda Literary Foundation, the country’s leading organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature.

Taylor’s memoir takes readers from her childhood in a strict evangelical household in the foothills of the Appalachians to her adulthood in Chicago, where she and her partner are raising a family. Told in the great storytelling tradition of the American South, Taylor demonstrates how one woman bridged the gulf between faith and sexual identity without abandoning her principles.

Taylor was appointed inaugural dean of DePaul’s ninth and newest college in March 2007. She has been a faculty member at DePaul since 1980 and has held numerous administrative positions at the university.

A performance studies scholar, she was awarded the National Communication Association Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation/Performance Studies in 2007. She has authored two other books and written numerous articles and essays on performance studies.