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 is also editor of The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories (Library of America, 2025). He enjoys birding, leisurely cycling, and adventures with a small dog.