About me
Louis Chude-Sokei is Professor of English, the Wein Chair and Director of African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University. Books include The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics and, Floating in A Most Peculiar Way. Also, the Korean translation of Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber and the German collection, Race Und Technologie: Essays Der Migration. He ran The Black Scholar for 10 years making it the leading journal in Black Studies. Founder of the sonic art/archiving project, Echolocution, he’s collaborated with artists including Mouse on Mars, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Marina Rosenfeld and Mendi&Keith Obadike. He was a curator of Carnegie Hall’s 2022 Afrofuturism Festival and currently advises the Guggenheim’s Art and Technology Initiative. At the 2024 Venice Biennale, he contributed a sound installation for the German National Pavilion, Thresholds.
