Even before my professional interest in literary studies, I was an avid science fiction reader. Even part of my dissertation addresses the genre. Here are some of my writings about sf.
- “Utopian Fiction” — Published as an introduction to a course on utopian and dystopian science fiction, August 19, 2016.
- “Clarke’s Utopian Vision” — Considering the science and mysticism of Arthur C. Clarke, October 25, 2010.
- “Breaking the Girl” — An examination of misogyny and oppression in Ovid, Poe, and Lem written for the PCA/ACA conference, 2009.
- “They Should Have Sent a Poet” discusses teaching Contact in World Lit. June 2, 2006.
- “Three Visions of Science: Lem’s, Tarkovsky’s, and Soderbergh’s Solaris.” Fall 2004.
- “Toward a Science Fiction Epic” — One of my oldest graduate school essays and my first conference paper, 1995.