My summer has thus far been spent moving, with little time for web updates. But I have had two collaborative pieces come out in the past few months, and not…
Read moreNew worlds
I am overdue on a few announcements here; let me start with the biggest one. This fall, I will be moving to the Washington, DC area to start a new…
Read moreA Foretaste of the Feminist Future, circa 1889
I’m excited to announce that the 1889 feminist utopia to which I wrote the introduction, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, is now in print…
Read moreMLA: Notes from “Tumblr Vulnerabilities”
My second panel at MLA was a roundtable on “Tumblr Vulnerabilities” with Aren Aizura, Roy Perez, Nick Mitchell, Kara Jesella, and Jeanne Vaccaro. My notes are a little scattered, but…
Read moreMLA: New Approaches to Science Fiction Criticism
I am back, exhausted, from MLA in Chicago. I didn’t manage to tweet the entire convention this year (though social media coverage is so much more diverse than it used…
Read moreupcoming at MLA
Happy New Year! Like so many other academics, I’m starting 2014 with MLA. I’m on two panels this year, at the very beginning and the very end of the conference:…
Read morefeminist science fiction
I’ve just come back from the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society, where I was invited to participate in the…
Read morethe first of a few upcoming publication announcements
Since this semester began, I’ve been in one of those phases where as soon as one piece of work finishes, you dash madly on to the next deadline without raising…
Read moreFuturities in love…
I spend a lot of time talking about gay marriage. Thinking, writing, teaching about the history and critiques of the idea that marriage is a political issue, a civil right…
Read morewhere I’ve been recently
I’m taking a brief pause to breathe after my first year as a tenure-track assistant professor. Going directly from defending my dissertation to being a graduate faculty member in a…
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