About
andré carrington is Assistant Professor of African American literature at Drexel University. His first book,
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Minnesota, 2016) interrogates the cultural politics of race in the fantastic genres through studies of science fiction fanzines, comics, film and television, and other speculative fiction texts.
carrington’s writing has appeared in
Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society,
Sounding Out!,
Callaloo,
African & Black Diaspora,
Journal of the African Literature Association,
Studio magazine for the Studio Museum in Harlem, and books including
A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, the Eisner Award-winning
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Blackness in Comics and Sequential Art,
Race/Gender/Class/Media 3.0, and
Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call.
In 2015, he co-organized the first
Queers & Comics international conference through
CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies in New York. He teaches courses in African American and Global Black Literature, Literary Theory, Black Liberation Movements, LGBT Literature & Culture, Comics & Graphic Novels, and Science Fiction. He’s also a birder.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
January 6, 2017 | MLA Session 285. Graphic Queer/Queer Graphics, Seriality and Sexuality in Graphic Form
https://apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=285&year=2017
February 3-4, 2017 | Duke University Black Is, Black Will Be: On Black Futures
March 15, 2017 | New York Live Arts, Live Ideas Festival, Happy Hour #1
http://newyorklivearts.org/program/live-ideas/
March 30-31, 2017 | University of Tennessee-Knoxville, The Futures of Afrofuturism Symposium
April 15, 2017 | California College of the Arts, Queer Theory and Comics Studies, Queers & Comics Conference
April 20, 2017 | Stanford University, Critical Theory Workshop on The Speculative
http://shc.stanford.edu/workshops/current-workshops
