Alyssa Collins

Alyssa Collins is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at CSUN. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2019 and served as the inaugural Octavia E. Butler Fellow at the Huntington Library from 2021-22. Her research focuses on black life, black feminist thought, embodiment and humanity, and technology as represented in the work of Octavia E. Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and other black speculative fiction writers.