Alexander D Brickler

Tucker Hall, Rm. #425

Monday/Wednesday/Friday • 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m

ENC 1102-01 Freshman Communicative Skills II • Tu. Th. — 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
LIT 3196 African Caribbean Literature •  Tu. Th. — 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
ENC 1102-43 Freshman Communication Skills II • Tu. Th. —12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
ENC 1102-12 Freshman Communication Skills II • Tu. Th. —2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

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Tallahassee native and HBCU alum, my academic interests encompass Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Literature (with a focus on Science Fiction by African Americans written from the 1980s to the present. Current projects include work on comparative and parallel readings of Afrofuturist works and Japanese speculative narratives (with a focus on anime/manga and kaiju cinema).

My work appears in the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Journal, Fire!!!, and in the 2019 edited collection of essays, Black Bodies, and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture, from Lexington Books.

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• Afrofuturism
  
• Postcolonial Theory
  
• Japanese Literature
  
• AfroAsia as theory and praxis

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• Assistant Professor • 2022 - Present
  Department of English and Modern Languages,
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
  
  
• Visiting Assistant Professor • 2020 - 2022
  Department of English and Modern Languages,
  Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
  
  
• Instructor • 2018 - 2020
  Department of English,
  Southeastern Louisiana University

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• “Soul in the Shell: Steven Barnes’s Aubry Knight Trilogy, Black Cyborgs, and Cyberpunk Investigations of Technological Black Bodies,” in Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture (Lexington Books), 2019.
  

• “Black Mecha is Built for This: Black Masculine Identity in Firedance and Afro Samurai,” in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 2), 2018.

• “Trans-Pacific Crossroads: Reading the Blues as Black American Folkway in Hiramoto Akira’s Manga, Me and the Devil Blues,” in Fire!!! (Vol. 4, No. 2), 2015

• TEDxFSU 2018 Speakers Series – Speaker (2018)

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• J. Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore, English Department, Florida State University • 2018

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• ENC 1101 Freshman Communication Skills I
  

• ENC 1102 Freshman Communication Skills II
  

• LIT 2110 Intro to Literature
  

• LIT 3196 African Caribbean Literature
  

• LIT 3353 Intro to African Literature
  

• LIT 4083 Contemporary Literature

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• Alex Brickler | Academia.edu