Darieck Scott is Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. Scott is the author of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination (2010), winner of the 2011 Alan Bray xPrize for Queer Studies of the Modern Language Association, and of the novels Hex (2007) and Traitor to the Race (1995) and the editor of Best Black Gay Erotica (2004). Scott is coeditor of the American Literature special issue “Queer about Comics,” winner of the 2018 Best Special Issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.