Chloe Hunt

Chloe Hunt is Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies from the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She specializes in Black speculative fiction and contemporary Black literature and culture. Her dissertation, Conjuring New Worlds: Black Women’s Speculative Fiction and the Restructuring of Blackness, explores speculative fiction as a critical site of theorization where Black women and Black queer writers can rearticulate Blackness in ways that complicate notions of history, identity, and futurity.

• Black studies
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Black feminism
• Critical theory

• 20th century African-American literature
• Black speculative fiction
• Black existentialism
• Racialization and identity formation

• Board Member, African-American Studies
• Board Member, Gender and Sexuality Studies 
• Organizer, Moment to Movement Anti-Racist Pedagogy Fellows Program

• University of Massachusetts Amherst, PhD in Afro-American Studies, 2022

• "'The Blackness We Leave Behind . . .': Speculative Approaches to Time and Space in Black Critical Theory." American Quarterly 72.2 (July 2020): 507–517.