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  • Machine Learning and Human Perspective

    Author(s):
    Ted Underwood (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    2020 MLA Convention, Digital Humanists, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Digital Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Machine learning, Hermeneutics, Speculative fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Digital humanities
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    distant reading

  • Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels

    Author(s):
    Anita Harris Satkunananthan (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Environmental Humanities, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Speculative fiction, Anthropocene, Postcolonial ecocriticism, Gothic literature, Postcolonialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction, apocalypse, postcolonial Gothic, EcoGothic

  • Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory

    Editor(s):
    James Gifford (see profile) , Orion Ussner Kidder
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    American Literature, CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy, Critical theory, American literature, Cultural studies, Popular culture, Theory
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction, fantastic

  • Day 1: Draft Prep Sheet on the 8 Parts of Speech through the Story of Hidden Figures

    Author(s):
    Laurie Ringer (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Education and Pedagogy, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Speculative and Science Fiction, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Teaching literature, Language pedagogy, Academic writing, Speculative fiction, Historical fiction, English language, College writing, Film
    Item Type:
    Course material or learning objects
    Tag(s):
    Hidden Figures, 8 Parts of Speech

  • Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus)

    Author(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, Cultural Studies, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Popular Culture
    Subject(s):
    Popular culture, Philosophy and literature, Fantasy literature, 20th-century fantastic literature, Teaching literature, Literary criticism, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    Fantasy fiction

  • MLA 2020 Roundtable Proposal (accepted) - Reading Utopia in Dark Times

    Author(s):
    Anindita Banerjee, Caroline Edwards (see profile) , Sean Grattan, Christian Haines, Robert Tally Jr., Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Phillip Wegner
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Speculative and Science Fiction
    Subject(s):
    Literary criticism, Interdisciplinary literary criticism, Continental philosophy, Marxism, Dystopia, Theory
    Item Type:
    Abstract
    Tag(s):
    utopia, utopian studies

  • Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2010
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC African American, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    African American literature, Historical literacy, Trauma, Speculative fiction, Science fiction, Embodiment
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Octavia Butler, Henri Bergson, sexual assault, interracial

  • Graphic Atwood

    Author(s):
    Thomas Scholz, Shraddha Singh, Karma Waltonen
    Editor(s):
    Lauren Rule Maxwell (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC Canadian, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Comic book studies, Canadian literature, Graphic novels, Speculative fiction, Women's gender, and sexuality studies
    Item Type:
    Abstract
    Tag(s):
    Margaret Atwood, Postwar Canadian literature

  • Margaret Atwood's _The Testaments_: Responses to _The Handmaid's Tale_ Sequel

    Author(s):
    Laura Birkin, Shelley Boyd, Megan Cannella, Nicole Lawrence, Marguerite Raymond, Lauren Rule Maxwell (see profile) , Brenda Shaughnessy, Karma Waltonen
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC Canadian, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Item Type:
    Abstract

  • Essays on the Lord of the Rings

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Psychoanalytic criticism, Theories of reading and writing, Art therapy, Affect, Trauma
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Object relations, psychotherapy

  • The (True) Lord of the Rings

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Affect, Fantasy literature, Psychoanalytic criticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Identification, J. R. R. Tolkien, object relations, The Lord of the Rings

  • Reader's Guide to Fellowship of the Ring

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy literature, Theories of affect, Psychological literary criticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    j.r.r. tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring, object relations, identification

  • The Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
    Subject(s):
    Fantasy literature, Speculative design, Psychological literary criticism, Affect
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Object Relations, real self

  • Not Meat

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2004
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Horror, Children's literature, 20th-century British literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    angela carter, company of wolves

  • Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction

    Author(s):
    Carl Gelderloos (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Communism, Eastern Europe, German studies, Marxism, Popular culture, Science and literature, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Astrobiology, Science and Politics

  • Entangled States: Putting Affect Theory into Play with Nnedi Okorafor and Ann Leckie

    Author(s):
    Laurie Ringer (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Theories of affect, Science fiction, Critical theory, Literary therory and criticism, Teaching literature
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Nnedi Okorafor, Ann Leckie, Binti trilogy, Imperial Radch, entangled states

  • Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith

    Author(s):
    Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American, MS Visual Culture
    Subject(s):
    20th century, Aesthetics, Art criticism, Latin American literature, Latin American studies
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    cultural history, Latin America, science fiction, visual art

  • The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman

    Author(s):
    Jay Clayton (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Biopolitics, Literature and science, Posthumanism, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    #bioethics, #genetics, posthumanism

  • Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

    Author(s):
    Carl Gelderloos (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Austria, Germanic literature, German studies
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    Utopia

  • “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl

    Author(s):
    Scott Selisker (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Ecocriticism , GS Speculative Fiction, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Environment, Literature and science, Speculative fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    automaton, GMO, scale

  • The Cult and the World System: The Topoi of David Mitchell's Global Novels

    Author(s):
    Scott Selisker (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    British literature, Sociology of religion, World literature
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia

    Author(s):
    Lee Skallerup Bessette (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC Canadian, Postcolonial Literature, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Caribbean literature, Postcolonial literature, Speculative fiction
    Item Type:
    Article

  • NOTES 1984

    Author(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    British literature
    Item Type:
    Course material or learning objects
    Tag(s):
    OEW2017

  • Blackness & Utopia

    Author(s):
    André Carrington (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC African American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African American literature, Digital humanities, Literature and philosophy, Pedagogy
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    apocalypse, early african american, utopia

  • Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do

    Author(s):
    Karl Steel (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    CLCS Medieval, GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Medieval literature, Queer theory
    Item Type:
    Conference paper

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