Gust Burns

gust.burns@edmonds.edu

PhD English, MFA Music/Sound

Classes usually taught: ENGL& 101: Comp I, ENGL& 102: Comp II, ENGL/HUM 166: Black Literary Traditions

Greetings! I am an associate faculty here at Edmonds College where I teach English 101 and 102 as well as English/Humanities 166: Black Literary Traditions. I am an active scholar and I publish articles regularly in the fields of Literary, Cinema and Media Studies, Black Studies, and theory. I am currently revising my first book manuscript titled Against Aesthetic Prohibition: (antiblack) multiplicity and radical Black aesthetics. I am a lifelong musician (piano and keyboards/synthesizer), and I have played in various bands, groups, venues, and scenes in the worlds of (free) jazz, improvised music, and experimental music - in Seattle and around the country (and in Japan) - since the 2000s. I grew up in Tacoma and am a life-long resident of the Salish Sea region. When I'm not reading, writing, or playing music, I am spending time with my family, often outdoors on a hike, in my medicinal herb garden, or fishing from shore, from Edmonds Pier, or from a kayak.