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Dr. Julian C. Chambliss

Julian C. Chambliss is a Professor of English and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. In addition, he is a co-director for the Department of English Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and a core participant in the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). His research focuses on race, culture, and power in real and imagined spaces. His engagement with Afrofuturism sketches from comic books to community activism informed by Black digital humanities and Critical Afrofuturist frameworks. His recent essays on race, comics, and Afrofuturism have appeared in More Critical Approaches to Comics (2019), The Ages of Black Panther (2020), and Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (2023).
His exhibitions on Afrofuturism include Beyond the Black Panther: Vision of Afrofuturism in American Comics and Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music for the MSU Museum, Transfiguration: A Black Speculative Vision of Freedom at Philip and Patricia Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination, at the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, and Afrofantastic: The Black Imaginary in Art, Literature, and Technology at the Fort Lauderdale African American Research Library and Culture Center. He co-produced, directed, and hosted Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism, a documentary exploring Afrofuturism for WKAR PBS. His book, Mapping Afrofuturism: Understanding Black Speculative Practice (2024), offers an effective overview of the history and culture of Afrofuturism for students and the public seeking to understand the movement's dynamic evolution.

His dedicated Afrofuturism website is www.afrofantastic.com.
His website is www.julianchambliss.com.
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