Julian C. Chambliss is a Professor of English and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. In addition, he is a co-director for the Department of English Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab (DHLC) and a core participant in the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). An interdisciplinary scholar, his work is shaped by Black Digital Humanities and a Critical Afrofuturist framework that seeks to bridge teaching, scholarship, and service to understand space, place, and identity. His reader on Afrofuturism, Mapping Afrofuturism: Understanding Black Speculative Practice (2024) offers students a comprehensive exploration of Afrofuturism theory and practice. His co-edited primary document reader, Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History (2018), highlights the differing ideologies informing our understanding of black space. He co-produced and directed Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism, a documentary exploring Afrofuturism for WKAR PBS. He has worked on several exhibitions examining Afrofuturism and visual culture, including Transfiguration: A Black Speculative Vision of Freedom at Philip and Patricia Frost Art Museum at Florida International University and A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination at the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts. He was featured on the Terrestrial Space Panel at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Claiming Space Symposium in 2022. Chambliss co-produced and hosted Every Tongue Got to Confess, a podcast examining communities of color from 2017 to 2022. Every Tongue won the 2019 Hampton Dunn New Media Award from the Florida Historical Society. In addition, he won the Hampton Dunn Internet Award in 2019 for Advocated Recovered, a project that digitally reconstructed a gilded-age black newspaper in Central Florida. He produced and hosted Reframing History, a podcast exploring humanities theory and practice in the United States. The second season of Reframing History inspired the publication of Reframing Digital Humanities: Conversations with Digital Humanists (2021), collecting conversations from leading DH scholars.