Adriana Green

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Initiative on Race and Resilience

Biography

Dr. Adriana Green is a cross-genre writer from southern Virginia with a love of all things otherworldly. She received her Ph.D. in African American & African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute. Adriana's research and teaching centers Black feminist thought, speculative fiction, and the politics of futurity. Currently, she is developing her first book project, Nevermind the Moon: Outer Space, US Empire, and Black Futures.

Nevermind the Moon analyzes black radical interventions into US state narratives of outer space travel across literature, visual culture, journalism, and protest efforts from the 1957 launch of Sputnik to today. In the book, she argues that US imperialism relies on narrative recourse to the assumed space-faring future in order to rationalize racial disparity in the present. Grounded in black feminist theory, her work not only challenges the federal government's use of outer space and the future as pre-owned US territories but also provides insight into non-possessive grammars of temporality in which the future is not a territory to claim, but a horizon of possibility.

Adriana's writing is either published or forthcoming in Sonora Review, The Journal of Technology and Culture, and Duke University Press among other outlets.