The Black Imagination Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative

Sandra Jackson is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University. Her areas of research and teaching include feminist theory, cultural studies, utopian and dystopian literature and film, women’s autobiography, gender and education. Previous books include coedited works: The Black Body: Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading; Talking Back and Acting Out: Women Negotiating the Media Across Cultures; and I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Identity and Place in the Academy.
Julie E. Moody-Freeman is Associate Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University. Her work on Caribbean literature and Black speculative fiction has appeared in the journals African Identities, Macomere, Canadian Women’s Studies/les cahiers de la femme; in The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora; and in the edited collection Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other: Diasporic Narrative and the Ethics of Representation.