Dr. Yanie Fécu is a researcher, writer, and classically trained pianist. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, held a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in the Departments of Music and Africana Studies, and is now an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Ransom Center, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Yanie writes and teaches about race, technology, and colonialism. She makes music (sometimes with Ngubo Masongo) about everything.