PAGE Co-Directors

Chelsea N. Bouldin

Board Member & PAGE Co-Director

Chelsea N. Bouldin is an Octavia E. Butler scholar, PhD candidate, and university fellow at Syracuse University in the Cultural Foundations of Education department. She is also pursuing a Certificate of Advanced Study in women’s and gender studies. Her scholarship considers how Afro-futurist literature/Afro-futurist ideologies serve as both tools for, and expressions of, Black women’s autonomous understandings and creations of self. Her work also explores archives as sites of epistemic repossession. As a practice of democratizing archival knowledge, she developed the So be it; See to it: Archiving Project–a community engaged interactive reading collective for Black women in Syracuse, N.Y. to converge her academic research with the Butler archives, parts of Butler’s literary canon, and collective histories beyond the academy. Most recently, Chelsea’s work has been generously supported by Humanities New York (HNY) the Huntington Library, Syracuse University’s Humanities Center, and The Black Feminist Eco Lab.

Flavorful food, Black sci-fi, boundless writing, impromptu exploration, and laughing endlessly fill her dreamiest days. She is thrilled to serve as PAGE Co-Director and continue dreaming up the future of Imagining America.