Julian Chambliss

About Julian Chambliss

Julian C. Chambliss is a Professor of English and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. He is also a co-director of the Department of English Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and faculty lead for the Department of English Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop. His research focuses on race, culture, and power in real and imagined spaces. His book on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural, and Geopolitical Domain, was published in 2018. His recent essays on comics have appeared in Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (2023), More Critical Approaches to Comics (2019) and The Ages of Black Panther (2020). His exhibition for the MSU Museum, Beyond the Black Panther: Vision of Afrofuturism in American Comics, explores Afrofuturist theme comics produced in the United States. His comics and digital humanities projects include The Graphic Possibilities OER and Critical Fanscape, a student-centered critical-making project focused on comics communities in the United States. He is the faculty lead for Comics as Data North America (CaDNA), an ongoing collaborative project at Michigan State University that uses library catalog data to explore North American comic culture. An interdisciplinary scholar, he continually seeks ways to bridge teaching, scholarship, and service to understand space, place, and identity. His work embraces Black digital humanities and Critical Afrofuturist frameworks. His most recent open-access book, Making Sense of Digital Humanities: Transformations and Interventions in Technocultures, offers a thematic roadmap to teaching digital humanities. His reader on Afrofuturism, Mapping Afrofuturism: Understanding Black Speculative Practice (2024), offers students a comprehensive exploration of Afrofuturism theory and practice. He hosted, co-produced, and directed Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism, a documentary exploring Afrofuturism for WKAR PBS. An interdisciplinary scholar, he continually seeks ways to bridge teaching, scholarship, and service to understand space, place, and identity. His work embraces Black digital humanities and Critical Afrofuturist frameworks. He hosted, co-produced, and directed Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism, a documentary exploring Afrofuturism for WKAR PBS.

Experience

1. Val Berryman Curator of History

   Msu Museum

   Sep 2019 — Present · East Lansing, MU

   The Val Berryman Curator of History provides leadership in aspects of History and related programs at the MSU Museum, creatively engaging MSU students, faculty, and community partners in actively re-imagining the practice of public history, through work with material objects and in digital arenas.

Education

• Jacksonville University. Jacksonville in the New South

  Bachelor of Science, History

  1994

• University of Florida

  Ph.D, United States History

  1998 — 2003

• Jacksonville University

  Bachlors of Science, History

  1990 — 1994

• United States History, University of Florida

  Master of Arts (M.A.), United States History

  1997

Skills

• Fundraising
• Social Media
• Academic Administration
• Public Policy
• Higher Education
• Program Development
• Program Evaluation
• Volunteer Management
• Qualitative Research
• Student Affairs
• Curriculum Design
• Non-Profits
• Classroom
• Higher Education Administration
• Nonprofits
• Writing
• Blogging
• Research
• History
• Analysis
• Tutoring
• Leadership
• Grant Writing
• Public Speaking
• Project Planning
• Leadership Development
• Intercultural Communication
• Admissions
• Program Management
• Educational Technology
• Courses
• College Teaching
• Publishing
• Curriculum Development
• Adult Education
• Student Development
• Staff Development
• Creative Writing
• Community Outreach
• Academic Advising