About
"Imagined Futures of Black Faculty"
Imagined Futures of Black Faculty is digital and visual scholarship project that brings together artistic portraits, film interviews, essays, poems, and short stories from Black college and university faculty about the futures they imagine for themselves. The project’s primary aims include using speculative approaches to increase the collective visibility of Black college and university faculty while also providing new models for self-authorship and envisioning transformative possibilities for Black life-making within and beyond the academy. Through employing a critical qualitative inquiry approach in tandem with narrative study and visual research methods, this project challenges conventional understandings and representations of Black personhood in the professional contexts of higher and postsecondary education. More specifically, and building on analyses of image production as a system of representational economics, this project employs photography and film in ways that excavate Black faculty from the recesses of academic life and pushes them into the forefront and represent possibilities beyond destitution and despair and toward new grammars of Black futurity.
Charles Davis is Assistant Professor, School of Education.
