Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity

UCLA Department of English presents a talk by Justin L. Mann, “Getting Lost in the Dark: Three Speculations on Black Insecurity.”

Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event.

The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Uri McMillan, Professor of English at UCLA.

Justin L. Mann (he/him) is an Assistant Professor and scholar of Black feminist literary and cultural studies at Northwestern University. His book Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press, March 2026) argues that Black speculative fictions are an essential but overlooked archive for understanding the United States’ security ambitions since the Reagan administration. His work has appeared in MELUS, GLQ, Feminist Theory, ASAP, and American Quarterly.

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