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 and director of the graduate emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science. His new book, Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination, unearths how radio adaptations of Black speculative texts bring the cultural politics of twentieth-century African American literature to the public through sound and performance. He is also editor of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories (Library of America, 2025). 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 cultures. He enjoys birding, leisurely cycling, traveling, and dogs.