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Macalester alumnus Prof. andré carrington is a scholar of race, gender, and genre in Black and American cultural production. The title of his talk is "Revenants and Terminators: Motives for Black Speculative Fiction."

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 is currently at work on a second mongraph, Audiofuturism, on radio adaptations of Black speculative texts. He is past recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and the National Humanities Center. His writing appears in journals, books, and blogs including Verso and Black Perspectives.