Writing & Literacies On Air

Welcome to the Writing & Literacies SIG new podcast series "Scholarship Spotlight"! This episode, titled “Representation and (Re)Writing Speculative Fiction,” is an interview with Professor Tananarive Due and Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas about their histories and critical involvement with(re)writing the genre of speculative fiction. In Part I of this two part series, they answer the questions: How does your work rethink or resist the conventions of speculative fiction? What conventions of speculative fiction need to be reworked, and how are you as scholars challenging these conventions in similar (or different) ways? 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, Du