Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Benjamin J. Robertson is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching focus on genre studies and media studies. His first book, None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2018. With Marie-Laure Ryan and Lori Emerson, he is editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014).

Benjamin J. Robertson

But That Is Not the Story: On Marlon James’s “Black Leopard, Red Wolf”

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Benjamin J. Robertson is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching focus on genre studies and media studies. His first book, None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2018. With Marie-Laure Ryan and Lori Emerson, he is editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014).