Executive Producer: Horror Noire
About Tananarive Due
TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason, and two cats.
Books
THE SUNKEN PLACE: BLACK HORROR
Special Guest: Jordan Peele
Tananarive's popular UCLA courses
revised with Steven Barnes for public
digital download (non-credit)
In the age of Jordan Peele's Get Out and Us, six lectures from Due and Barnes trace Black Horror from The Birth of a Nation to Get Out, including literature by Due, Octavia E. Butler and other authors. Learn about common themes and which tropes to avoid with black characters in horror. Skype interviews with Jordan Peele and Candyman's Tony Todd. Free extras include a screenwriting lecture course! Learn at your own pace.
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AFROFUTURISM
In these 10 lectures and interviews with guest creators across the arts, Due and Barnes introduce you to the world of Afrofuturism -- or black science fiction, fantasy and horror. From the music of George Clinton and Janelle Monáe to films like Black Panther and "The Space Traders" to the literature of W.E.B. DuBois and Octavia E. Butler, learn how black artists use Afrofuturism to reclaim the past, present and future. Free extras include a Social Justice Writing course. Learn at your own pace.
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Media Inquiries & Speaking Engagements
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Media Inquiries
Email Tananarive Due:
thelivingblood@gmail.com
thelivingblood@gmail.com
Speaking Engagements
Jack Jones Speakers Bureau
allison@jackjonesliteraryarts.com
213-336-3805