Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: The Dark Fantastic

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas discusses her book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games with Chris Richardson. Thomas is Associate Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and International Educational Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. A former Detroit Public Schools teacher and National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, she was a member of the NCTE Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color’s 2008-2010 cohort, served on the NCTE Conference on English Education's Executive Committee from 2013 until 2017, and is the immediate past chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Research. Currently, she serves as co-editor of Research of the Teaching of English, and her most recent book is The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (NYU Press, 2019). She is an advisory board member and consultant on Teaching Tolerance’s Teaching Hard History project.