Kristen Reynolds
International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies, Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities (2024-26)
Project: “The (Hu)man in the Machine: Black Speculative Visions for Technology Beyond Man”
Kristen Reynolds is International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Africana Studies, the Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2024. Her research utilizes Black speculative literature and culture to interrogate how digital and computational technologies reproduce antiblackness through their coherence around Sylvia Wynter’s articulation of “Man, overrepresented as the human.” Her work thereby seeks to demonstrate how Black speculative literature and culture posits new frameworks for developing technologies that promote Black futures. She is interested in teaching courses focused on Black digital humanities and science and technology studies, speculative literature and culture, and courses that allow students to develop and experiment with speculative methods.
