Dr. Jasmine A. Moore-Strickland specializes in Black Speculative Fiction and Cultures from the Afrodiaspora. She received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside in June 2024. She hails from the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Having received her M.A. in English at the University of Huntsville in Alabama and B.A. from Howard University, Jasmine’s work focuses on the intersections of race, gender, class consciousness, and critical utopias and applied utopian strategy as it relates to the critical nature of Black speculative fiction’s ability to work through trauma. Her current project, Disaster and Possibility: Reclaiming Time in AfroHorror Aesthetics, focuses on the increasingly popular genre of AfroHorror as a cathartic tool that cracks open past and present experiences of trauma in order to contemplate avenues of resistance against the legacies of White supremacist-late capitalist logic while offering therapeutic alterity. Black creatives engage Horror as a “working through” space that challenges the material conditions and archival losses/erasures of Black subjectivity.

In film, literature, and real life, Jasmine’s work explores how Black people are often depicted as stereotypically monstrous boogeymen; AfroHorror exposes the monstrosity of “civilized society” by telling stories from the margins. Jasmine’s writing has been published in a variety of presses that are dedicated to conversations around the deeply critical and timely messages of Black speculative cultures. She has published in the Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms and liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies.