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American writer (born 1992)

Anaïs Duplan (born 1992) is a queer and trans^[1] Haitian writer now based in the U.S.,^[2] with three book publications from Action Books, Black Ocean Press, and Brooklyn Arts Press,^[3] along with a chapbook from Monster House Press.^[4]^[5] His work has been honored by a Whiting Award^[6] and a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International.^[7]^[8] He is a Professor of postcolonial literature at Bennington College, of which he is also an alum.^[9]^[10]^[11]

Early life and education

Duplan was born in Jacmel, Haiti.^[2] He moved to the United States as a child and grew up in Boston and Brooklyn with his mother.^[12] His writing about his father’s absence from his childhood and how it impacted his understanding of gender norms was published in The Paris Review,^[3] and he discussed his parents’ impact on his work in an interview with The Rumpus.^[13] He also lived in Cuba for several years.^[14] Eventually, after attending Rhode Island School of Design, Duplan graduated from Bennington College in 2014^[15] and then the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2017.^[16]

Career

Duplan’s poetry publications include the book Take This Stallion, published in 2016 by Brooklyn Arts Press,^[10]^[17] which Publishers Weekly wrote in a review “tactfully manages to stir the comical and casual into poems about pain, crippling emotional uncertainty, substance abuse, and death,”^[18] and I Need Music, published in 2021 by Action Books.^[1]^[3]^[19] The latter received praise from poets Jericho Brown, Major Jackson, and Shane McCrae,^[20] as well as positive reviews from Literary Hub^[21] and Make.^[22] In 2016 his poem My Heart Like a Needle Ever True Turns to the Maid of Ebon Hue caught the attention of PBS, because of its focus on Civil War spy Mary Bowser.^[23] In June 2021, Duplan was the guest editor for the Academy of American Poets‘s Poem-a-Day series.^[24]^[25]

Duplan’s 2017 chapbook, Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus was inspired by his parents and how they have affected his work.^[13]

Duplan’s first nonfiction book, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture, was published by Black Ocean Press in 2020^[26] after excerpts were published in Ploughshares^[27] and Hyperallergic.^[28] The nonfiction book discusses the meanings of transition and passing in regard to gender, including the irreversible effects of testosterone therapy.^[27] Claudia Rankine listed it as a book she looked forward to reading in an interview with The New York Times,^[29] Hanif Abdurraqib called it “futuristic work,”^[30] and a review in Colorado Review noted that its style is “as much theoretical as it is journalistic as it is in the style of manifesto.”^[31] One In 2022, Duplan received a Whiting Award for nonfiction,^[13] which NPR noted was a predictor of writers who would go on to become “household names.”^[8] Duplan’s outfit at the award reception caught the attention of Vanity Fair which described it as a “spectacular jumpsuit.”^[6]

In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program^[3]^[32] developed to give artists of color arts space after a fundraiser on Kickstarter.^[33] The first artists-in-residence while Duplan served as director were Yulan Grant, Terrence Nance, Krista Franklin.^[33] In 2021, the center started new collaborations with Iowa City, including murals, interviews, and performances.^[34] While at Iowa, Duplan met Tracie Morris, when they “both presented talks at Columbia University‘s More Than A Manifesto conference”, and she later interviewed him about black sociality, academia, and influences for The Los Angeles Review of Books.^[16] Duplan was also interviewed for the New York City Trans Oral History Project, in conjunction with New York Public Library‘s oral history project.^[14] He has been teaching at Bennington College, his alma mater, since 2021.

Since 2022 Duplan had been working as a guest curator at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. He was responsible for the development of the exhibition chapter on “Afrofuturism” as part of the exhibition “We is Future – Visions of New Communities”. The museum terminated the contract around a week before the opening on 24 November 2023 because of his Pro-Palestine posts. The museum justified the move by saying that Duplan had published several anti-Semitic posts on his Instagram account in the preceding weeks. The museum spokesperson cites Duplan’s November 10 post calling for support for the BDS^[35] movement, as what made them make that decision.^[36]

List of Works

Books

Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Art Press, 2016)
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020)
I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021)

Chapbooks

Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017)^[4]^[5]^[13]^[37]

Exhibitions

We Turn (curated by danilo machado)^[38]
Anonymous Donor
INNTERDISCPLINE
WE IS FUTURE (cancelled)^[39]

Honors and Awards

References

^ ^a ^b Cassell, Dessane Lopez (15 June 2020). “Queer Art Workers Reflect: Anaïs Duplan On ‘Becoming a Better Lover’—Not Just in a Romantic Sense”. Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 3 December 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b “Anaïs Duplan”. Bennington Review. No. 3. Bennington College. 30 September 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Duplan, Anaïs (6 April 2022). “Anaïs Duplan, Nonfiction”. The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b “Artists: Anaïs Duplan”. The Loft Literary Center. Archived from the original on 16 June 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b Darling, Kristina Marie (29 October 2019). “Silence in Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus and Take This Stallion”. Ploughshares. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
^ ^a ^b Vanderhoof, Erin (8 April 2022). “The Whiting Awards Choose 10 Up-and-Coming Writers Who Don’t Shy Away From the Current Moment”. Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ Firetog, Emily (6 April 2022). “Announcing the winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards”. Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 3 November 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b O’Reilly, Fi (6 April 2022). “2022 Whiting Awards celebrate 10 emerging writers”. NPR. Archived from the original on 30 July 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ “Faculty: Anaïs Duplan”. Bennington College. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
^ ^a ^b “Student Work: Anaïs Duplan ’14 Publishes First Book of Poetry”. Bennington College. 27 June 2016. Archived from the original on 17 May 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
^ “about — Anaïs Duplan”. worksofanais.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ Angelos, Ayla (4 April 2022). “Music is a Vehicle for Perceiving”. PORT Magazine. ISSN 2046-052X. Archived from the original on 14 October 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gibbel, Katherine (9 November 2017). “The Rumpus Mini Interview #109: Anaïs Duplan”. The Rumpus. Archived from the original on 15 June 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b W., Xtian (18 June 2019). “Interview Transcript: Anaïs Duplan” (PDF). New York City Trans Oral History Project. Transcribed by Elizabeth Hupp. New York Public Library. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 July 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
^ “Archive – Alumni – Anaïs Duplan”. Bennington College. Archived from the original on 26 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b Morris, Tracie (9 January 2021). “Change of Perspective: A Conversation with Anaïs Duplan”. Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
^ Duplan, Anaïs (2016). Take This Stallion: Poems. New York: Brooklyn Arts Press. ISBN 9781936767458. OCLC 918986377.
^ “Take This Stallion by Anais Duplan”. Publishers Weekly. 20 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Duplan, Anaïs (2021). I Need Music. Notre Dame, IN: Action Books. ISBN 9780900575112. OCLC 1263260138.
^ “I Need Music by Anaïs Duplan”. Action Books. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Fitzgerald, Adam (24 August 2016). “Anaïs Duplan”. Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 11 December 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Murillo III, John (17 April 2021). “Review: Blackspace by Anaïs Duplan”. MAKE Literary Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Segal, Corinne (18 April 2016). “Poet delves into a Civil War spy’s hidden history”. PBS News Hour. Archived from the original on 16 August 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^ “Poets: Anaïs Duplan”. Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ “June 2021 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Anaïs Duplan”. Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Duplan, Anaïs (2021). Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture. La Vergne: Black Ocean. ISBN 9781939568618. OCLC 1255230764.
^ ^a ^b Duplan, Anaïs (1 October 2020). “Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture”. Ploughshares. Archived from the original on 13 June 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ Duplan, Anaïs (12 November 2020). “Making Use of the Mundane: Black Performance & Becoming”. Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 11 September 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ Tamaki, Jillian (26 November 2020). “Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 2464324044. Archived from the original on 25 March 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ “Skylit: Anaïs Duplan, Kelly Schirmann & Stacey Tran read from their new books”. Skylight Books. 11 February 2021. Archived from the original on 3 December 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022 – via Crowdcast.
^ Hughes, Sara (2021). “Book Reviews – Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture”. Colorado Review. Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. Archived from the original on 4 October 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Nelson, Emily (2020). “Creating art while empowering artists”. University of Iowa. Archived from the original on 25 April 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b Dunne, Carey (9 March 2016). “Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies”. Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ Hartel, Mary (14 February 2021). “Center for Afrofuturist Studies strives to uplift Black voices across various platforms”. The Daily Iowan. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ “WIR IST ZUKUNFT | Museum Folkwang”. 23 November 2023.
^ Nayyar, Rhea (2023-11-15). “German Museum Cancels Afrofuturism Show Over Curator’s Pro-Palestine Posts”. Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
^ Duplan, Anaïs (2017). Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus. Bloomington, Indiana: Monster House Press. ISBN 9780986046186. OCLC 1002129443.
^ “We turn”. EFA Project Space. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
^ “We is Future | Museum Folkwang”. www.museum-folkwang.de. 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
^ “| Anaïs Duplan”. QUEER | ART. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
^ “2021 Marian Goodman Gallery Initiative Fellowships – Independent Curators International”. curatorsintl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
^ “Anaïs Duplan”. www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
^ “Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum Award Black Visionaries for 2022 | Instagram Blog”. about.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[:3-1] Cassell, Dessane Lopez (15 June 2020). “Queer Art Workers Reflect: Anaïs Duplan On ‘Becoming a Better Lover’—Not Just in a Romantic Sense”. Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 3 December 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

[:0-2] “Anaïs Duplan”. Bennington Review. No. 3. Bennington College. 30 September 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[:1-3] Duplan, Anaïs (6 April 2022). “Anaïs Duplan, Nonfiction”. The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[:7-4] “Artists: Anaïs Duplan”. The Loft Literary Center. Archived from the original on 16 June 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

[:9-5] Darling, Kristina Marie (29 October 2019). “Silence in Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus and Take This Stallion”. Ploughshares. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.

[vanityfair.com-6] Vanderhoof, Erin (8 April 2022). “The Whiting Awards Choose 10 Up-and-Coming Writers Who Don’t Shy Away From the Current Moment”. Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[7] Firetog, Emily (6 April 2022). “Announcing the winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards”. Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 3 November 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[:2-8] O’Reilly, Fi (6 April 2022). “2022 Whiting Awards celebrate 10 emerging writers”. NPR. Archived from the original on 30 July 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[9] “Faculty: Anaïs Duplan”. Bennington College. Archived from the original on 17 July 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.

[:8-10] “Student Work: Anaïs Duplan ’14 Publishes First Book of Poetry”. Bennington College. 27 June 2016. Archived from the original on 17 May 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.

[11] “about — Anaïs Duplan”. worksofanais.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2025. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

[12] Angelos, Ayla (4 April 2022). “Music is a Vehicle for Perceiving”. PORT Magazine. ISSN 2046-052X. Archived from the original on 14 October 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[therumpus.net-13] Gibbel, Katherine (9 November 2017). “The Rumpus Mini Interview #109: Anaïs Duplan”. The Rumpus. Archived from the original on 15 June 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[:6-14] W., Xtian (18 June 2019). “Interview Transcript: Anaïs Duplan” (PDF). New York City Trans Oral History Project. Transcribed by Elizabeth Hupp. New York Public Library. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 July 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.

[15] “Archive – Alumni – Anaïs Duplan”. Bennington College. Archived from the original on 26 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[Los_Angeles_Review_of_Books-16] Morris, Tracie (9 January 2021). “Change of Perspective: A Conversation with Anaïs Duplan”. Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2022.

[17] Duplan, Anaïs (2016). Take This Stallion: Poems. New York: Brooklyn Arts Press. ISBN 9781936767458. OCLC 918986377.

[18] “Take This Stallion by Anais Duplan”. Publishers Weekly. 20 June 2016. Archived from the original on 10 October 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[19] Duplan, Anaïs (2021). I Need Music. Notre Dame, IN: Action Books. ISBN 9780900575112. OCLC 1263260138.

[20] “I Need Music by Anaïs Duplan”. Action Books. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[21] Fitzgerald, Adam (24 August 2016). “Anaïs Duplan”. Literary Hub. Archived from the original on 11 December 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[22] Murillo III, John (17 April 2021). “Review: Blackspace by Anaïs Duplan”. MAKE Literary Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[23] Segal, Corinne (18 April 2016). “Poet delves into a Civil War spy’s hidden history”. PBS News Hour. Archived from the original on 16 August 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

[24] “Poets: Anaïs Duplan”. Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[25] “June 2021 Poem-a-Day Guest Editor Anaïs Duplan”. Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[26] Duplan, Anaïs (2021). Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture. La Vergne: Black Ocean. ISBN 9781939568618. OCLC 1255230764.

[:4-27] Duplan, Anaïs (1 October 2020). “Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture”. Ploughshares. Archived from the original on 13 June 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[28] Duplan, Anaïs (12 November 2020). “Making Use of the Mundane: Black Performance & Becoming”. Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 11 September 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[29] Tamaki, Jillian (26 November 2020). “Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 2464324044. Archived from the original on 25 March 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[30] “Skylit: Anaïs Duplan, Kelly Schirmann & Stacey Tran read from their new books”. Skylight Books. 11 February 2021. Archived from the original on 3 December 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022 – via Crowdcast.

[31] Hughes, Sara (2021). “Book Reviews – Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture”. Colorado Review. Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University. Archived from the original on 4 October 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[32] Nelson, Emily (2020). “Creating art while empowering artists”. University of Iowa. Archived from the original on 25 April 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

[:5-33] Dunne, Carey (9 March 2016). “Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies”. Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[34] Hartel, Mary (14 February 2021). “Center for Afrofuturist Studies strives to uplift Black voices across various platforms”. The Daily Iowan. Archived from the original on 3 December 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

[35] “WIR IST ZUKUNFT | Museum Folkwang”. 23 November 2023.

[36] Nayyar, Rhea (2023-11-15). “German Museum Cancels Afrofuturism Show Over Curator’s Pro-Palestine Posts”. Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[37] Duplan, Anaïs (2017). Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus. Bloomington, Indiana: Monster House Press. ISBN 9780986046186. OCLC 1002129443.

[38] “We turn”. EFA Project Space. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[39] “We is Future | Museum Folkwang”. www.museum-folkwang.de. 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[40] “| Anaïs Duplan”. QUEER | ART. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[41] “2021 Marian Goodman Gallery Initiative Fellowships – Independent Curators International”. curatorsintl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[42] “Anaïs Duplan”. www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

[43] “Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum Award Black Visionaries for 2022 | Instagram Blog”. about.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

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 Duplan’s first [[nonfiction]] book, ”Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture”, was published by [[Black Ocean Press]] in 2020<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duplan |first=Anaïs |title=Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture |publisher=Black Ocean |year=2021 |isbn=9781939568618 |location=La Vergne |language=en |oclc=1255230764}}</ref> after excerpts were published in [[Ploughshares]]<ref name=”:4″>{{Cite web |last=Duplan |first=Anaïs |date=1 October 2020 |title=Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture |url=https://pshares.org/blog/i-will-always-be-that/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250613064355/https://pshares.org/blog/i-will-always-be-that/ |archive-date=13 June 2025 |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=[[Ploughshares]]}}</ref> and [[Hyperallergic]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duplan |first=Anaïs |date=12 November 2020 |title=Making Use of the Mundane: Black Performance & Becoming |url=http://hyperallergic.com/601308/blackspace-on-the-poetics-of-an-afrofuture-anais-duplan/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911022434/http://hyperallergic.com/601308/blackspace-on-the-poetics-of-an-afrofuture-anais-duplan/ |archive-date=11 September 2024 |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=[[Hyperallergic]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The nonfiction book discusses the meanings of [[Gender transitioning|transition]] and [[Passing (gender)|passing]] in regard to gender, including the irreversible effects of [[testosterone therapy]].<ref name=”:4″ /> [[Claudia Rankine]] listed it as a book she looked forward to reading in an interview with ”[[The New York Times]]”,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tamaki |first=Jillian |author-link=Jillian Tamaki |date=26 November 2020 |title=Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/books/review/claudia-rankine-by-the-book-interview.html |url-access=registration |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325153120/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/books/review/claudia-rankine-by-the-book-interview.html |archive-date=25 March 2023 |access-date=21 April 2022 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|2464324044}}}}</ref> [[Hanif Abdurraqib]] called it “futuristic work,”<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=11 February 2021 |title=Skylit: Anaïs Duplan, Kelly Schirmann & Stacey Tran read from their new books |url=https://www.crowdcast.io/e/skylit-duplan-schirmann |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251203-235309/https://www.crowdcast.io/c/skylit-duplan-schirmann_1 |archive-date=3 December 2025 |access-date=21 April 2022 |website= |publisher=Skylight Books |via=Crowdcast}}</ref> and a review in ”[[Colorado Review]]” noted that its style is “as much theoretical as it is journalistic as it is in the style of manifesto.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Sara |date=2021 |title=Book Reviews – Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture |url=https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/blackspace-on-the-poetics-of-an-afrofuture/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251004021020/https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/blackspace-on-the-poetics-of-an-afrofuture/ |archive-date=4 October 2025 |access-date=22 April 2022 |website=[[Colorado Review]] |publisher=Center for Literary Publishing at [[Colorado State University]] |language=en-US}}</ref> One In 2022, Duplan received a [[Whiting Awards|”Whiting Award”]] for nonfiction,<ref name=”therumpus.net”/> which ”[[NPR]]” noted was a predictor of writers who would go on to become “household names.”<ref name=”:2″ /> Duplan’s outfit at the award reception caught the attention of [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] which described it as a “spectacular jumpsuit.”<ref name=”vanityfair.com”/>
-In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program<ref name=”:1″ /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nelson |first=Emily |date=2020 |title=Creating art while empowering artists |url=https://stories.uiowa.edu/anais-duplan-artist-empowering-artists |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425114346/https://stories.uiowa.edu/anais-duplan-artist-empowering-artists |archive-date=25 April 2025 |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=[[University of Iowa]] |language=en}}</ref> developed to give artists of color arts space after a fundraiser on [[Kickstarter]].<ref name=”:5″>{{Cite web |last=Dunne |first=Carey |date=9 March 2016 |title=Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies |url=http://hyperallergic.com/274638/space-or-iowa-city-is-the-place-inside-the-new-center-for-afrofuturist-studies/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112142425/http://hyperallergic.com/274638/space-or-iowa-city-is-the-place-inside-the-new-center-for-afrofuturist-studies/ |archive-date=12 January 2024 |access-date=22 April 2022 |website=[[Hyperallergic]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The first artists-in-residence while Duplan served as director were Yulan Grant, [[Terence Nance|Terrence Nance]], [[Krista Franklin]].<ref name=”:5″ /> In 2021, the center started new collaborations with [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]], including murals, interviews, and performances.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hartel |first=Mary |title=Center for Afrofuturist Studies strives to uplift Black voices across various platforms |url=https://dailyiowan.com/2021/02/14/center-for-afrofuturist-studies-strives-to-uplift-black-voices-across-various-platforms/ |date=February 14, 2021|access-date=2022-04-22 |website=The Daily Iowan}}</ref> While at Iowa, Duplan met [[Tracie Morris]], when they “both presented talks at [[Columbia University]]’s More Than A Manifesto conference”, and she later interviewed him about black sociality, academia, and influences for ”[[The Los Angeles Review of Books]]”.<ref name=”Los Angeles Review of Books”/> Duplan was also interviewed for the [[New York City]] Trans Oral History Project, in conjunction with [[New York Public Library]]’s oral history project.<ref name=”:6″ /> He has been teaching at [[Bennington College]], his alma mater, since 2021.
+In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program<ref name=”:1″ /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Nelson |first=Emily |date=2020 |title=Creating art while empowering artists |url=https://stories.uiowa.edu/anais-duplan-artist-empowering-artists |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425114346/https://stories.uiowa.edu/anais-duplan-artist-empowering-artists |archive-date=25 April 2025 |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=[[University of Iowa]] |language=en}}</ref> developed to give artists of color arts space after a fundraiser on [[Kickstarter]].<ref name=”:5″>{{Cite web |last=Dunne |first=Carey |date=9 March 2016 |title=Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies |url=http://hyperallergic.com/274638/space-or-iowa-city-is-the-place-inside-the-new-center-for-afrofuturist-studies/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112142425/http://hyperallergic.com/274638/space-or-iowa-city-is-the-place-inside-the-new-center-for-afrofuturist-studies/ |archive-date=12 January 2024 |access-date=22 April 2022 |website=[[Hyperallergic]] |language=en-US}}</ref> The first artists-in-residence while Duplan served as director were Yulan Grant, [[Terence Nance|Terrence Nance]], [[Krista Franklin]].<ref name=”:5″ /> In 2021, the center started new collaborations with [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]], including murals, interviews, and performances.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hartel |first=Mary |title=Center for Afrofuturist Studies strives to uplift Black voices across various platforms |url=https://dailyiowan.com/2021/02/14/center-for-afrofuturist-studies-strives-to-uplift-black-voices-across-various-platforms/ |= 14 |-date=-22 |website=The Daily Iowan}}</ref> While at Iowa, Duplan met [[Tracie Morris]], when they “both presented talks at [[Columbia University]]’s More Than A Manifesto conference”, and she later interviewed him about black sociality, academia, and influences for ”[[The Los Angeles Review of Books]]”.<ref name=”Los Angeles Review of Books”/> Duplan was also interviewed for the [[New York City]] Trans Oral History Project, in conjunction with [[New York Public Library]]’s oral history project.<ref name=”:6″ /> He has been teaching at [[Bennington College]], his alma mater, since 2021.
 Since 2022 Duplan had been working as a guest curator at the [[Museum Folkwang]] in Essen, Germany. He was responsible for the development of the exhibition chapter on “[[Afrofuturism]]” as part of the exhibition “We is Future – Visions of New Communities”. The museum terminated the contract around a week before the opening on 24 November 2023 because of his Pro-Palestine posts. The museum justified the move by saying that Duplan had published several anti-Semitic posts on his Instagram account in the preceding weeks. The museum spokesperson cites Duplan’s November 10 post calling for support for the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|BDS]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.museum-folkwang.de/de/ausstellung/wir-ist-zukunft | title=WIR IST ZUKUNFT &#124; Museum Folkwang | date=23 November 2023 }}</ref> movement, as what made them make that decision.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nayyar |first=Rhea |date=2023-11-15 |title=German Museum Cancels Afrofuturism Show Over Curator’s Pro-Palestine Posts |url=http://hyperallergic.com/856774/german-museum-cancels-afrofuturism-show-over-curators-pro-palestine-posts/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}</ref>