Matters Professional
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 1981, Princeton University
B.A., Literature and Languages, 1972, Bennington College.
WORK:
1997- Professor, Dept. of English, DePauw University,
1994-95 Fulbright Visiting Lecturer, American Studies Program, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary
1994-95 Director (pro tem), American Studies Program, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary
1990-97 Associate Professor, Dept. of English, DePauw University
1983-90 Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, DePauw University.
1980-83 Instructor, Dept. of English, Northeastern University.
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000-01
Fulbright Lecturer Award, American Studies, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary, 1992-93; 1993-94.
Pioneer Award, awarded for Best Essay in Science Fiction Studies by the Science Fiction Research Association, 1992.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1987-88
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Scholarship, Institute of Literary History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1976-1977.
Book:
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, November 2008)
Editorship:
Managing Editor, Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies
Co-Editor, Science Fiction Studies
Co-Editor (with Christopher Bolton and Takayuki Tatsumi), Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from origins to Anime (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Co-Editor, Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science Fiction Studies (SF-TH, Inc. 1992)
Special Issues of Science Fiction Studies Edited: Soviet Science Fiction: The Thaw and After [with Erik Simon] (November 2004); The British SF Boom [with Mark Bould and Andrew Butler] (November 2003); Japanese Science Fiction [with Takayuki Tatsumi and Christopher Bolton] (November 2002); Science Fiction and Postmodernism (November 1991); Stanislaw Lem (November 1986).
Internet Website Design:
Designer and Site Manager, Science Fiction Studies Website (www.depauw.edu.edu/sfs)
Scholarly Articles:
"Some things we know about Aliens," Difference in Science Fiction, David Seed, ed. (Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 37 (2007)
"Lem, Central Europe, and the Genre of Technological Empire," in Peter Swirski ed. Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem (McGill U. Press, 2006).
"Science Fiction/Criticism." Blackwell Companion to Science Fiction. David Seed, ed. (Blackwell, 2005)
"The Lost Child: Notes on Gwyneth Jones's White Queen." Femspec 5.1 (2005)
"Science Fiction and the Thaw." Science Fiction Studies #94 (November 2004).
"Marxist Theory and Science Fiction." The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Edward James and Farah Mendelsohn, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
"Editorial Introduction" to Special Issue on the British Boom, Science Fiction Studies #91 (November 2003)
"Obcy u Lema" [The Aliens of Lem]. Stanislaw Lem. Pisarz - Mysliciel - Czlowiek. Jerzy Jarzebski and Andrzeja Sulikowskiego, ed. (Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2003) (in Polish)
"Science Fiction and Empire." Science Fiction Studies #90 (July 2003)
"Dis-imagined Communities: The Future of Nations in Science Fiction" in Hollinger and Gordon, ed.. Edging into the Future. Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation. (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
"On the Grotesque in Science Fiction," Science Fiction Studies #86 (March 2002)
"Coding Out the USA: Oshii's Avalon." Science Fiction Studies #86 (March 2002)
"The Posthuman Sublime." Metal and Flesh/chair et metal no. 4 (February 2002)
"Notes on Mutopia" Postmodern Culture (October, 1997).
"We're Not in Kansas Anymore. On Naivete in SF and Criticism." Science-Fiction Studies 71 (March 1997)
"The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction." Science-Fiction Studies 70 (November 1996)
"Living in Downtime: Virtuelle Realität, Science Fiction und die Zukunft der Religion" [Living in Downtime: Virtual Reality, Science Fiction, and the Future of Religion], in Hyperkultur, Klepper et al. ed, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 1996.
"Antimancer: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson's Count Zero," Science-Fiction Studies 65 (March 1995).
"Pilgrims in Pandemonium: Philip K. Dick and the Critics," introduction to Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies, SF-TH, 1992.
"Futuristic Flu, or the Revenge of the Future," in Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Slusser and Shippey, eds., University of Georgia Press, 1992.
"The Sentimental Futurist: Cybernetics and Art in William Gibson's Neuromancer," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1992.
"The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway," Science-Fiction Studies 55 (November 1991) [Also in Japanese translation in Gendai-Shiso (Tokyo), October, 1992.]
"Postmodernism's SF/SF's Postmodernism," Science-Fiction Studies 55 (November 1991)
"Modeling the Chaosphere: Stanislaw Lem's Alien Communications," in Chaos and Order. Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. N. Katherine Hayles, ed. U. of Chicago Press. 1991. (Also in Polish translation in Teksty (Krakow), 1992.)
"Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism," in Mississippi Review 47/48, vol. 16, nos. 2 & 3, 1989. (Also in German translation in Atomic Avenue, Wilhelm Mayer Verlag (München), 1990. Also in In the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction, Larry McCaffery, ed. Duke University Press, 1991.)
"Die Bürde der Zukunft oder: Die Gegenwart als Science Fiction," Quarber Merkur (Vienna) 74, December, 1990.
"Zamyatin and the Strugatskys: The Representation of Freedom in We and The Snail on the Slope," in Zamyatin's WE, Kern, ed. Ardis, 1988.
"Toward the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys' Science Fiction, 1963-1972," Science-Fiction Studies 38, (March 1986).
"Das letzte Märchen: 'Picknick am Wegensrand' und das Marchen-paradigma in der Science-fiction der Strugatzkis," in Polaris 10. Ein Science-fiction-Almanach Arkadi und Boris Strugatzki gewidmet. Rottensteiner, ed. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1986.
"The Book is the Alien: On Certain and Uncertain Readings of Lem's Solaris," Science-Fiction Studies 35 (March 1985).
"Ksiazka jest Obcym: o pewnych i niepewnych interpretacjach "Solaris" Stanislawa Lema." Lem w Oczach Krytyki Swiatowej, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1989.
"Kafka and Science Fiction," Newsletter of the Kafka Society of America, June 1984.
Interview:
"22 Answers and 2 Postscripts: An Interview with Stanislaw Lem," Science-Fiction Studies 40 (November 1986).
Translations:
Tatiana Chernyshova, "Science Fiction and Myth Creation in Our Age" Science Fiction Studies #94 (November 2004)
Stanislaw Lem: On Stapledon's Star Maker Science Fiction Studies #41(March 1987)
Stanislaw Lem: On Stapledon's First and Last Men. Science Fiction Studies #40 (November 1986)
Stanislaw Lem: Metafuturology Science Fiction Studies #40 (November 1986)
Review Articles:
"Interplanetary Soundclash" (a review of Philip Hayward, ed. Off the Planet. Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema).Science Fiction Studies #96 (July 2005).
"Escaping Star Trek" (review article on Alan Shapiro's Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance). Science Fiction Studies 97 (March 2004).
"Who Framed Science Fiction?" (review article on Peter Stockwell's The Poetics of Science Fiction) Science Fiction Studies #92 (March 2004)
"Lucid Dreams, or Flightless Birds on Rooftops," (review article on special issue of Historical Materialism devoted to fantasy, edited by China Mieville) Science Fiction Studies #90 (July 2003)
"Pre2K, Post2K" (review article on Margaret Morse’s Virtualities, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker’s Digital Delirium, and Dixon and Cassidy’s Virtual Futures), Science Fiction Studies 82 (November 2000)
"The Global Province" (review article on James Gunn’s The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 6: International SF and Franz Rottensteiner, ed. The View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction) Science Fiction Studies 79 (November 1999).
"Till We Have Interfaces" (review article on N. Katherine Hayles, How We became Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and, and Informatics) Science Fiction Studies 78 (July 1999)
"The Cyborg and the Kitchen Sink; or, The Salvation Story of No Salvation Story," (review article on Donna Haraway, Modest_ Witness@Second_ Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™. Feminism and Technoscience.) Science Fiction Studies 76 (November 1998)
Papers and Lectures:
"The Purpose of Humanimalia," New Directions in the Humanities, Paris, France, June 2007.
"Science Fiction vs. Surrealism," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2006.
"Science Fiction's Twentieth Century." New Directions in the Humanities. Cambridge University, August 2005.
"Annexing the Stars: Science Fiction and Imperialism." Science Fiction Research Association, Las Vegas, June 2005.
"Science Fiction, Central Europe and Technological Empire." The World According to Lem. Science Fiction and Futurology, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, September, 2003.
"Cyberpunk and Empire," Visions of Humanity in Cyberspace and Cyberculture, Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2003.
"Science Fiction and Technological Empire," Technocultures, University of Iowa, February, 2003.
"Science Fiction and Music: A Theory," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2002.
"Silent Dune, or What’s the matter with Lynch’s Dune? Turn off the sound!" International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2001.
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