Jared Richardson earned an MA and his PhD in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He also received an MA from the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and his BA from the Departments of Art History and Philosophy at the University of Miami, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program of African and African American Studies (AAAS) at Stanford University in California. Richardson’s research interests include popular culture, materialisms, sound, temporality, subaltern ecologies, and the visual cultures of the black diaspora. Using a cross-disciplinary framework, his latest research project titled “The Black Aquatic: Affect, Occiduus, and Temporality beyond the Atlantic” theorizes how black expressive cultures produce a synaesthetic understanding of sound and embodiment within the material and metaphorical capacities of water.