Brandon Callender

Assistant Professor of English

Departments/Programs

English
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
Hunter College, B.A.

Expertise

Black Literatures; Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies; Queer of Color Studies; Horror Studies, Film & Media Studies

Profile

Professor Callender specializes in black and queer literatures with a budding interest in board games and horror studies. He is interested in how black and queer writers, viewers, and players are able to find affirmation in subcultures, genres and spaces that often fail to acknowledge them. His current book project, "The Charge of the Other in Black Gay Men’s Literatures" examines eccentric expressions of desire and belonging that test the limits of respectability and solidarity.

Courses Taught

AAAS	79b	African American Literature of the Twentieth Century
AMST/ENG	167b	Writing the Nation: James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison
ENG	42a	Blackness and Horror
ENG	102a	Ghosts of Race
ENG	142b	Black Queer Literatures

Scholarship

Callender, Brandon. History and its Kind: The Charge of the Other in Black Gay Men's Literatures. Diss. University of California, Berkeley, May 15, 2020. ProQuest, 2020.