Bio
Associate Professor, Department of English
I study the relationship between science fiction and transportation politics. I am fascinated by what science fiction teaches us about which kinds of mobility practices and technologies of movement are more equitable, restorative, and sustainable. Because transportation—how people move, who gets to move, and under what conditions—has long been both a literal and symbolic battleground for racial justice in the U.S., I am deeply interested in the ways in which African American speculative fiction often uses future or alternative worlds to critique the racialized inequalities of mobility in the past and present.