Ajani Brown, MFA
Office: AL-373
Email: [email protected]
Areas of specialization: AfroFuturism and Social Justice/Political themes in fiction & comics, African diaspora
Ajani Brown is a double alumni of San Diego State University where he earned his MFA
in Creative Writing and BA in English. Brown joined the department in 2013 and has
been an innovative force ever since. He proposed and developed the cutting edge course,
AfroFuturism, which is the interdisciplinary study of African and African American
contributions to science fiction, comic book art, pop culture, and its origins and
influences. In addition to his teaching duties he has been on a nationwide lecture
tour since 2014, presenting at such conferences as The World Science Fiction Convention
and Comic Con International. Brown's research focus includes literacy through sequential
art, EthnoGothic Horror in comics and graphic novels, the depiction of Black characters
in comics as it applies to visual rhetoric, AfroFuturism and Social Justice/Political
themes in fiction, comics & graphic expressions, in addition to cultural studies of
the African diaspora. Brown is currently editing the department's first annual anthology
titled, The 21st Century Black Woman: Redefining Leadership and Changing Perceptions of Identity.