Caitlin Gunn

Assistant Director of the Center
Director of Pedagogy
Predoctoral Fellowship Advisor

Caitlin Gunn is a feminist educator, researcher, and consultant based in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently holds a position as a Senior Educational Developer at Georgetown University's Center for New Designs and Learning in Scholarship (CNDLS). She earned her doctorate in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2020, followed by a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow of Humanities Pedagogy at Harvard University as part of her tenure as a 2020-2021 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow. Gunn’s scholarship focuses on Black feminist interventions in science fiction and media studies. She utilizes those interventions as pedagogical tools to create space for underrepresented students to build the futures they deserve and desire, inside and outside of academia.

Gunn’s pedagogy draws upon themes of speculative thinking and the utilization of theory toward political and social problem-solving. Using Black, queer, and feminist frameworks, she centers marginalized identities and experiences to produce rigorous and student-driven discussions, activities, and service work. Beyond traditional university settings, Gunn has developed curricula for K-12 students and adult community groups, and has expertise leading facilitations, lectures, and trainings on anti-racism and queerness.

Gunn’s 2015 book chapter, “Hashtagging from the Margins: Women of Color Engaged in Feminist Consciousness-Raising on Twitter” can be found in Women of Color and Social Media Multi-Tasking: Blogs, Timelines, Feeds, and Community,” and was an early and regularly-cited contribution to the field of Digital Blackness Studies. Gunn has an article titled “Black Feminist Futurity: From Survival Rhetoric to Radical Speculation” in a special issue of the Feral Feminisms journal featuring queer and women of color manifestas against state violence and oppression.