Chad Infante

Chad B. Infante is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland College Park. He holds an affiliate faculty position at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center. Originally from Jamaica, his research focuses on Black and Indigenous U.S. and Caribbean literatures, film, gender, sexuality, critical theory, and political philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University in 2018.

His research interests include the intersection of Black and Indigenous studies, colonial metaphors, and feminist/queer reinterpretations of revolutionary thought. His book manuscript Grammars of Interrogation: Murder and the Metaphysics of Gender in Black and Indigenous U.S. Literature (forthcoming 2026) examines anticolonial violence in literature and art. He is also developing a second project analyzing children’s television through Black and Native American Studies frameworks using UMD’s Sesame Street archives.

Recent publications include an essay in Diacritics (2023) and a forthcoming piece in American Indian Quarterly. His work bridges literary analysis with political philosophy, emphasizing decolonial methodologies.