Eight Great Speculative Fiction Books by Women
Need a break from so-called reality? These eight speculative fiction authors represent the best of the best in the sci-fi genre.
Dawn Eyestone
Dawn Eyestone has been teaching courses in critical and pop cultural analysis, literature, and communication at the college level since 2007 and she currently teaches in the English department at a large state university. She earned a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication in 2013 with a concentration on pop culture media, critical pedagogy, and Women's Studies.
Stuart Hall: Voted Most Likely to Succeed
Seemingly for those interested in Stuart Hall's theories, this text is really just for Stuart's cool kids in the hall.
Academic Gamers: Your Assistance with ‘Gaming Representation’ Please
You might care about the concepts raised in Gaming Representation, but you probably won’t be able to understand them.
The Women Aren’t What’s Difficult in David Plante’s ‘Difficult Women’
Some might find David Plante’s ‘Difficult Women’ an enigmatic examination of a man’s relationship to several women who all resemble his mother. The rest of us, however…
Rebecca Schuman and How to Study Kafka in East Berlin Without Really Trying
A review of Rebecca Schuman’s Schadenfreude, a Love Story, including some personal observations and self-identification that connect to a memoir with a really long title and lots of German words
Race and Sci-fi Theory: Not Just for Dissertations Anymore
Ever thought Toni Morrison’s Beloved has a place at ComicCon? André M. Carrington’s Speculative Blackness might be for you.
‘Nebula Awards Showcase 2016’ Will Make Your Toes Curl
Experienced sci-fi readers have seen enough hentai to know where Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 is going.
Outsiders and Marxists and Nazis ‘At the Existentialist Cafe’
When it comes to reconstructing the lived experience of historical figures and philosophers, the devil is in the details, and the devil is probably a Nazi.
Heidegger’s ‘Hegel’ Is Philosophy With a Capital F
Hegel’s philosophies are critically important to Western thought but this new translation may make even the most stalwart of academics sigh in frustration.
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice Save It for the Internet
On the Internet, both scholars and non-academics alike find something about the genre of comment to sink their canines into.
Barney Frank Is the Neville Longbottom of US Politics
Barney Frank is a self-deprecator, a self-doubter, a teller of bad jokes, and a wearer of ill-fitting suits, but his talent for economics is rather like Longbottom’s talent for herbology.
Smear the Queer: ‘The X-Files’ Reboot and Stereotypes in Speculative Fiction
If Fox really is going jump-start The X-Files, it better not pull any of the stereotypical homophobic crap again.