Chris Colvin

Instructor & PhD Student

Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta Technical College

Chris Colvin is a third-year Humanities Ph.D. student at Clark Atlanta University, concentrating in African American Studies. Chris is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with two bachelor’s degrees from Auburn University (English and Radio, Television & Film) and a master’s degree in English from the University of Kentucky. Chris is also a Literature and Humanities Curriculum Lead at Atlanta Technical College, where he teaches composition, literature, and humanities courses from a Black American perspective. His particular research interests are African American literature, Black popular culture, and Afrosurrealism and how each is used to explore and unpack Black identities in the Diaspora. Chris is interested in how Afrosurrealism can be used as both a worldview and an aesthetic to reintroduce Black America to the multidimensional identities of the ancestors. Chris wants to explore these topics through Black cinema and fiction and how these critical analyses and nuanced representations benefit Black people.

 

Research Interests: African American literature; Black popular culture; Afrosurrealism; Black identity and diaspora