Today’s discussion is with Alexander Weheliye, who teaches in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of numerous articles and three critical books: Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005), Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014), and Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology (2023). In this conversation, we explore the boundaries Black Studies research, the expansiveness of its archive, and the place of cultural and political responsibility inside and outside classroom and campus work.