A. D. Boynton, II

I am a Southern scholar-blerd living in Lawrence, KS and a doctoral student in English. I see myself as a cultural and literary critic and speculative fiction writer who writes and writes about the future, popular culture, queerness, and blackness. My teaching has a similar emphasis, culturally relevant, black feminist pedagogy is at the heart of how I teach and mentor students.

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I am a Georgia native, and earned my B.A. in English at Fort Valley State University and M.A. in English at Georgia College & State University. 

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I am also an Editor for the Journal of Science Fiction and Curator for the 4:44 Syllabus. You can find my work on Abernathy, Open Cultural Studies, The Essay Review, Black Youth Project, and my personal blog. Definitely follow me on Academic.edu to read more of my work.

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My current manuscript is about the ghost as a liberatory, queer, and revisionist project in Afrofuturistic texts including Toni Morrison's Beloved, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, and American Horror Story.

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