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 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. He enjoys birding, leisurely cycling, and adventures with a small dog.
He is currently at work on a second book-length project, Audiofuturism, on the cultural politics of race and utopia in radio drama. He is past recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the Penn Humanities Forum/Wolf Center for Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He has co-edited a special issue of Transformative Works & Cultures journal on Fans of Color/Fandoms of Color, with Abigail De Kosnik and serves on the journal’s editorial advisory board; he is also a co-editor of Lateral, journal of the Cultural Studies Association. In 2021-23, he is co-Principal Investigator in an interdisciplinary Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Unarchiving Blackness.
carrington’s writing appears in journals (American Literature, Souls), books (After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century, The Blacker the Ink, A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call), and blogs (Black Perspectives). He is also a contributor to the collections Digital Pedagogies in the Humanities and Keywords for Comics Studies. With cartoonist Jennifer Camper, he co-founded the Queers & Comics international conference in 2015.