andré carrington, PhD, is one of the foremost scholars in science fiction studies. From Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (2016), a groundbreaking study of the politics of race in SF and fan cultures, to The Black Fantastic (2025), the Library of America’s brand-new anthology of contemporary speculative fiction by Black authors, he has explored race, gender, and genre across media (film, television, comics, and more) and among fans. His forthcoming study, Audiofuturism, focuses 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, and his writing has appeared in diverse journals, books, and blogs. His work on comics has appeared in, for example, the Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (2024), The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (2015), After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century (2019), and Queer about Comics, a special issue of American Literature (2018). During this Zoom webinar, carrington will discuss the permutations of race in Marvel’s X-Men franchise, with a focus on the beloved character Storm.
This webinar is free and open to the general public, but registration is required. To register, scan the QR code or click on the link above.
This event is the third and final webinar in the Spring 2025 series offered by English 421XM (a cultural studies class on Marvel's X-Men). Dr. J. Andrew Deman (The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men) appeared on February 24, and Dr. Anna Peppard (Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero) appeared on April 23. This series is co-sponsored by the CSUN Department of English and the College of Humanities Academic Programming Fund, and organized by Dr. Charles Hatfield, teacher of English 421XM. Feel free to email Dr. Hatfield with questions (charles dot hatfield @ csun dot edu).