# Tananarive Due

**Source**: https://afam.ucla.edu/person/tananarive-due/
**Parent**: https://afam.ucla.edu/people/faculty/

- [Biography](#biography)
- [Press](#press)

## Tananarive Due

Continuing Lecturer of African American Studies

**Email**: [tanadue@ucla.edu](mailto:tanadue@ucla.edu "tanadue@ucla.edu")

**Office**: 1317 Rolfe Hall

**Office Hours:\**Tuesday & Thurday 11a-noon (by appointment only)

**Zoom Meeting ID:\**825 8958 2422 (make appointment to receive meeting password)

[Personal Website](https://www.tananarivedue.com/)

## Biography

Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary *Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror*. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include *Ghost Summer: Stories*, *My Soul to Keep*, and *The Good House*. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored F*reedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights*. She is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason, and two cats.

## Press

### News

- [‘Get Out’-inspired UCLA class gets students to dig into portrayals of race and fear](http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/get-out-inspired-ucla-class-gets-students-to-dig-into-fictional-portrayals-of-race-and-fear)
- [What Is Black Horror? ‘The Sunken Place’ Professor Tananarive Due Explains](https://shadowandact.com/what-is-black-horror-the-sunken-place-professor-tananarive-due-explains)
- [How ‘Black Panther’ points to a more enlightened Hollywood future](http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-black-panther-points-to-a-more-enlightened-hollywood-future)