About

andré carrington is a scholar of race, gender/sexuality, and genre in Black and American cultural production. He is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside where he also directs the program in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science. His first book, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Minnesota, 2016) interrogates the cultural politics of race in the fantastic genres and fan culture. He edited the Library of America anthology of contemporary Black speculative fiction, The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories.

He is currently at work on a second book-length research project, Audiofuturism, on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama and literary adaptation in a transatlantic context. Recently, he was a Principal Investigator in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Unarchiving Blackness: Why the Primacy of African & African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives.

carrington’s writing appears in journals (American Literature, Souls, and African & Black Diaspora), books (After Queer Studies, Keywords for Comics Studies), and blogs (Black Perspectives). He is also a contributor to Digital Pedagogies in the Humanities. With cartoonist Jennifer Camper, he co-founded the biennial Queers & Comics international conference in 2015. He has also organized conferences on author Octavia E. Butler and current research in science fiction studies.

He teaches courses on African American and Global Black Literature, LGBT/Queer Literature & Culture, Comics & Graphic Novels, and Science Fiction. He’s also a birder.