Darieck Scott earned his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and also has an M.A. in African American Studies and a J.D. from Yale. Before coming to UC Berkeley he taught in the English> departments of the University of Texas at Austin, and UC Santa Barbara. His teaching and research interests include: 20th century African American literature; creative writing; gender and sexuality studies; race and sexuality in fantasy, science fiction, and comic books. His current book project examines representations and theorizations of the relation between blackness, abjection, and “queer” masculinity.

Scott is the author of the novels Hex (2007) and Traitor to the Race (1995), and the editor of Best Black Gay Erotica (2004). His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Freedom in This Village (2005), Black Like Us (2002), Giant Steps (2000), Shade (1996) and Ancestral House (1995), as well as in the erotica collections Flesh and the Word 4 (1997) and Inside Him (2006). He has published essays in Callaloo, GLQ, The Americas Review, and the collection Gay Travels.