Chad B. Infante is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. Chad earned his doctorate in English from Northwestern University in 2018. He is originally from Jamaica and studies Black and Indigenous U.S. and Caribbean literatures, film, and cultures. Chad has published the essays “Colonial Metaphor, Colonial Metaphysics: On the Poetic Pairing of Blackness and Indianness” in Diacritics and “Colonial Etiology: Globalism and the Debate Between Black and Native American Studies” with American Indian Quarterly. His book manuscript Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature is forthcoming on April 28th, 2026, with the University of Minnesota Press. This study explores representations of anticolonial murder, vengeance, and revenge in Black and Indigenous literature and art as a philosophical response to colonial violence, a way to read Black and Native literature together, and as a desire for a feminist and queer rendition of revolution.