Cassius Adair is a scholar and media producer from Virginia. He is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City.
Previous academic roles include Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) with an affiliation at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan.
As an audio producer, he specializes in bringing complex ideas to curious non-scholarly audiences. Most recently, he was a producer for the SiriusXM podcast Sounds Gay, working alongside editor Jazmine Green and host Sarah Esocoff. He has also done consulting and editorial work for a variety of shows, including KCRW’s Bodies, Wondery’s Twin Flames and Harsh Reality, Science Friday, Call to Mind, and the NPR series All The Only Ones. From 2020-2021, he was the lead producer and showrunner of Transcripts, a production of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. He was also an editorial consultant for Brit Bennett’s #1 New York Times Bestseller The Vanishing Half and a guest expert on the Netflix documentary Escaping Twin Flames.
With Tuck Woodstock, he is a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting.
His writing appears in American Quarterly, American Literature, Feminist Media Histories, Avidly, The Rumpus, 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 computer history.