Chad B. Infante

Chad B. Infante is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland College Park, affiliated with the College of Arts and Humanities. He specializes in African American/African Diaspora, Caribbean, and Indigenous literatures, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and critical theory.

• Education: Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University (2018)

His research explores anticolonial narratives in U.S., Caribbean, and Indigenous literature and film, particularly through the lens of murder, vengeance, and revolutionary feminist/queer frameworks. He has published in Diacritics and has a forthcoming essay in American Indian Quarterly. His book manuscript Grammars of Interrogation: Murder and the Metaphysics of Gender in Black and Indigenous U.S. Literature (2026) examines intersections of Black and Native American Studies in art and literature.

He is an affiliate faculty member at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and contributes to the D.C. Queer Studies Symposium. His work draws on the University of Maryland’s Sesame Street archives and alumni legacies like Jim Henson and Aaron McGruder.

Contact: cinfante@umd.edu