Racquel Gates & Alex English

Teaches at Caveat

Racquel Gates is an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Her research focuses on blackness and popular culture, with special attention to discourses of taste and quality. She is the author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture (Duke, 2018) and has written numerous essays on film and media, some of which appear in The New York Times, Film Quarterly, Television & New Media, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Alex English's honest, intelligent, vibrant, and hilarious performances have allowed him to open for such comedians as Roy Wood, Jr, Michelle Wolf, James Adomian, Ted Alexandro, Sasheer Zamata, and Sam Morril. He has also appeared numerous times in the New York Comedy Festival. Alex was most recently a Creative Consultant on Netflix's The Fix with Jimmy Carr, as well as a Staff Writer for BET's The Rundown with Robin Thede. English has made appearances on VICELAND’s Funny How? as well as Season 2 of Night Train with Wyatt Cenacon STARZ.