De Witt Douglas Kilgore is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University.  He is the author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003).  His recent work includes, “This Time for Africa!: Afrofuturism as Alternate (American) History” in Afrofuturism in Time and Space edited by Lisa Yaszek and Isiah Lavender III, forthcoming from Ohio State University Press, and “A Cinema of Consolation:  Visualizing the War on Terror in post-9/11 Cinematic Science Fiction Invasion Fantasy,” in The In/visibility of America’s 21st Century Wars (2017).