Writing & Literacies On Air

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! This episode, titled “Publishing Across Modalities and Communities,” is Part 2 of our two-part interview series with Professor Tananarive Due and Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. Professor Due and Dr. Thomas discuss how they work in academic and fan communities to publish work across a variety of modalities. They conclude the interview by citing writers and scholars of color who continue to inform their thinking. Tananarive Due is is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-