Regina Hamilton-Townsend is an Assistant Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the African American and Africana Studies Program and the Gender and Women Studies Department at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hamilton-Townsend teaches primarily twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature, and she is the winner of both the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2022) and the University of Kentucky Provost Outstanding Teaching Award (2022). Her work on twentieth and twenty-first century Black speculative fiction and the racial politics of narrative world-building in games has been published in the Journal of Games Criticism and The Black Scholar. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Afrofutures and the American Nation, in which she analyzes the speculative literary devices contemporary Black authors use to remove the American nation as an obstacle to Black futurity and freedom.