Lou Cornum

Lou Cornum, born in Arizona in 1989, is a writer, scholar, and editor interested broadly in Indigenous Cultural Studies, conversations across Black and Indigenous Studies, and decolonial theory. Currently, they are the Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Native American Studies at Wesleyan University where they are working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Skin Worlds: Speculative Geographies across Black and Indigenous Literatures. Published writing can be found in The New Inquiry, Real Life, Art in America, Canadian Art, Frieze, and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism. They are an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation and come from a family of Diné and white settler backgrounds. While based in Brooklyn for the past ten years, they now ping pong between New York and Connecticut.