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A Virtual Introduction to Science Fiction<\/em> is a collaborative effort of academics working in the area of science fiction from all over the world. It is continuously enhanced with material contributed from members of organizations like SFRA or IAFA as well as other individual works by authors and\/or scholars of SF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Bould<\/strong> (University of the West of England) co-edits Science Fiction Film and Television<\/em>, and is an advisory editor of Extrapolation<\/em>, Historical Materialism<\/em>, Paradoxa<\/em> and Science Fiction Studies<\/em>. He is the author of Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City<\/em> (2005), The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star<\/em> (2009) and Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook<\/em> (2012), co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction<\/em> (2011), and co-editor of Parietal Games: Critical Writings<\/em> By and<\/em> On M. John Harrison<\/em> (2005), The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction<\/em> (2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction<\/em> (2009), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction<\/em> (2009) and Neo-Noir<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ritch Calvin<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at SUNY Stony Brook. He is also the current President of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and the media reviews editor of the SFRA Review. His work has appeared in Science Fiction Studies<\/em>, Utopian Studies<\/em>, Extrapolation<\/em>, and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts<\/em>, among others. He is currently working on a book on epistemology and science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Davis<\/strong> is Associate Professor of English at Gordon College in Barnesville, GA, where he teaches American literature and creative writing. He is the former editor of the small press science fiction magazine, The Mage<\/em>, and the current editor of the Science Fiction Research Association Review<\/em>. He has published articles on apocalyptic topics ranging from the origins of impact-extinction theory and the role of future-war storytelling in American foreign policy to the fiction of Tim O\u2019Brien and Flannery O\u2019Connor.  He is currently working on a book manuscript, \u201cTechnological Distances: Reading Flannery O\u2019Connor in the Future\u201d, in part of which he ponders whether O\u2019Connor, too, may be deemed a slipstream author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pawe<\/strong>\u0142<\/strong> Frelik <\/strong>teaches in the Department of American Literature and Culture at Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska University, Lublin, Poland, and in 2011\/12 he is a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research interests include science fiction and its visualities, postmodern literature and theory, unpopular culture, and trans-media storytelling. He co-edited three books, including Playing the Universe: Games and Gaming in Science Fiction <\/em>(2007). He is also the editor of the European Journal of American Studies<\/em>, an editorial consultant for Science Fiction Studies<\/em> and Extrapolation<\/em>, and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steffen Hantke<\/strong> is Professor of American Culture at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. He has written on contemporary literature, film, and culture. He is author of Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary Literature<\/em> (1994), as well as editor of Horror<\/em>, a special topics issue of Paradoxa<\/em> (2002), Horror: Creating and Marketing Fear<\/em> (2004), Caligari\u2019s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945<\/em> (2007), American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium<\/em> (2010), and, with Rudolphus Teeuwen, of Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers, and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labor in <\/em>Higher<\/em> <\/em>Education<\/em> (2007). His essays and reviews have appeared in Science Fiction Studies<\/em>, Critique<\/em>, StoryTelling<\/em>, Literature\/Film Quarterly<\/em>, and other journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zahra Jannessari-Ladani <\/strong>earned her PhD  of English Literature at the University of Tehran. She has teaching experience in several universities, including  the University of Tehran, as a guest lecturer. Her articles have been published in Journal of Language and Translation<\/em>, Research in Contemporary World Literature: Pazhuhesh-e Zabanha-ye Khareji<\/em>, The Fourth Biennial Conference of Comparative Literature on The Self and Others<\/em>, and Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction<\/em>. She has also translated Dr. Kristina Nelson\u2019s The Art of Reciting the Quran<\/em> and some of Stanley G. Weinbaum\u2019s short stories into Persian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin Anne Reid<\/strong> is a Professor in Literature and Languages whose scholarly and teaching interests include speculative fiction, critical theory, and fan studies. She has published critical introductions on Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury, and edited the first encyclopedia on Women and Science Fiction (Greenwood, 2008). She is active in online fandom and is working on a collaborative digital technologies grant with colleagues in psychology, sociology, and linguistics titled: \u201cThe Interdisciplinary Internet: Multidisciplinary Methodologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Rieder<\/strong> is a Professor of English at the University of Hawai\u2018i at M\u0101noa and a member of the editorial board of Extrapolation<\/em> as well as the advisory editorial board of Science Fiction Studies<\/em>. He was awarded the Science Fiction Research Association\u2019s Pilgrim Award in 2011 for his essay \u201cOn Defining Science Fiction, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History\u201d in Science Fiction Studies<\/em>, July 2010. He is the author of Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction<\/em> (Wesleyan UP, 2008), Wordsworth\u2019s Counterrevolutionary Turn<\/em> (U of Delaware Press, 1997), and numerous essays on science fiction, English Romanticism, the institutional history of literary study, and other topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lars Schmeink <\/strong>is lecturer of North American studies and media at the University of Hamburg and the HarborCity University Hamburg, as well as a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University Berlin with a dissertation on genetic posthumanism in contemporary sf. He is co-founder and president of the Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Fantastikforschung (Association for Research in the Fantastic) and serves both as editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Fantastikforschung<\/em> and as managing editor of the SFRA Review<\/em>. His most recent publications are two anthologies with De Gruyter publishers: Collision of Realities: Establishing Research on the Fantastic in Europe<\/em> (co-edited with Astrid B\u00f6ger) and Fremde Welten: Wege und R\u00e4ume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert<\/em> (co-edited with Hans-Harald M\u00fcller).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Stableford <\/strong>has published more than seventy novels, most of his recent productions falling into two series, one consisting of futuristic \u201ctales of the biotech revolution\u201d and the other featuring Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s pioneering detective Auguste Dupin, investigating cases that he stubbornly insists have no supernatural component, although his friends and adversaries sometimes take a different view. He has also published more than twenty collections of short stories, more than twenty non-fiction books of scholarly work on the fantastic and science fiction, and more than eighty volumes of translations from French into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfredo Suppia<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, member of the Brazilian Society for Film and Audiovisual Media Studies (www.socine.org.br) and the Science Fiction Research Association (www.sfra.org).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allan Weiss<\/strong> is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is Chair of the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction, and co-curated the National Library of Canada exhibit on Canadian science fiction and fantasy, \u201cOut of This World,\u201d in 1995. He is also the author of both mainstream and fantastic short stories; his stories have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Fiddlehead<\/em>, Windsor Review<\/em>, Wascana Review<\/em>, On Spec<\/em>, and Tesseracts<\/em>, and his story collection Living Room<\/em> (Boheme Press) was published in 2001. He is currently working on a monograph on apocalyptic fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary Westfahl<\/strong>, now retired from the University of California, Riverside, is an Adjunct Professor at the University of La Verne. In addition to publishing hundreds of articles and reviews, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of more than twenty books about science fiction and fantasy. In 2003, he earned the Science Fiction Research Association\u2019s Pilgrim Award for his lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Yaszek<\/strong> is Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an executive officer for the Science Fiction Research Association. Her essays on science fiction as cultural history appear in journals including Extrapolation<\/em>, NWSA Journal<\/em>, and Rethinking History<\/em>. Her most recent books include Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women\u2019s Science Fiction<\/em> (Ohio State University Press 2008) and the edited anthology Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre<\/em> (McFarland 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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