The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come (2014)
An exploration of how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. Works considered include fiction by Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson, among others.
Essays
Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“Feminist Future Making and Nomadic Subjecticity in the Academy.” Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University, Ed. Abby Palko, Sonalini Sapra, Jamie Wagman. Lexington Books, 2020.
“Fledgling as a Narrative of Love and Power.” Approaches to Teaching Octavia E. Butler, Ed. Tarshia L. Stanley. MLA, 2019.
“Science Fiction, Gender, and Sexuality in the New Wave.” Cambridge History of Science Fiction, Ed. Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence and Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours.” Co-written with Joy Ochs. Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature, Ed. Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-Wazedi. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Heterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Samuel Delany, Ursula Le Guin, and Terry Pratchett.” Environments in Science Fiction, Ed. Susan Bernardo. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2014.
“Ceremony’s Fantastic Stories” in Fantasy and Native America, ed. David Oberhelman and Amy Sturgis, Mythopoeic Press, 2009. Rpt. Contemporary Literary Criticism—Select Vol. 302, 2011.
“Octavia E. Butler on Coping with Power in Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Fledgling,” in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 49.4, Summer 2008.
“Genealogy and Becoming in the Canopus in Argos: Archives Series,” in Doris Lessing Studies 25.2, 2006.
Other Publications
Review of Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works. Ed. Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2017.
“Monstrous Metal: Android Love in Feminist Fantasy,” in Sirens: Collected Papers 2009-2011. Ed. Hallie Tibbetts. Narrate Conferences, 2012.
“The Truth about Women in SF?” Review of Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965, by Eric Lief Davin, in Science Fiction Studies 34.2, Summer 2007.