Michael J. Myers II is from Buffalo, New York. Michael received his Ph.D. from the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Black Study at the University of California, Riverside. Grounded in Sylvia Wynter’s epistemologies and scoped from the vantage point of the violent black rebel, Michael is working on his first book project – which is at once a multilayered and multifaceted experiment in storytelling, writing, aesthetics, and method-destroying/making – that seeks to illustrate what the “violence” of violent black rebellion does while concomitantly imagining the insurrectionary futures posited by the theoretical provocations and praxis of violent black rebellion, whether for this life or the next.
When not working, Michael enjoys listening to music (of all genres), riding his motorcycle, and cheering for (and commiserating about) the Buffalo Bills. Go Bills!