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Cassius Adair is an audio producer, writer, and researcher from Virginia. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City.

Previously, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and a Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) with an affiliation at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. He is also a research fellow at the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory at the University of Toronto and an outside member of the Precarity Lab at the University of Michigan.

His audio production and narrative editing work spans multiple media and genres. Recent roles include production for the SiriusXM podcast Sounds Gay, with editor JT Green and host Sarah Esocoff, and consulting and editorial for KCRW’s Bodies, Wondery’s Twin Flames and Harsh Reality, Science Friday, Call to Mind, and a yet-to-be-released NPR series. From 2020-2021, he was the lead producer and showrunner of Transcripts, a production of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. He has provided editorial consulting for fiction projects, including Brit Bennett’s #1 New York Times Bestseller (and Mariah Carey and Noname reading list pick!) The Vanishing Half. His documentary work has been honored in numerous venues, including the Third Coast International Audio Festival. With Tuck Woodstock, he is a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting.

Dr. Adair holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. His writing appears in American Quarterly, American Literature, Avidly, The Rumpus, Make Literary Magazine, Nursing Clio, Misadventures Magazine, Semiotic Review, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. He is a coauthor of the experimental scholarly book Technoprecarious (MIT, 2020) and is currently writing a book about transgender people and the Internet.