upcoming 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: New Approaches in Science Fiction...
View ArticleMLA: 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 to be, I no longer feel as...
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MLA: 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 I’m posting them...
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A 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 – with a beautiful cover...
View ArticleNew 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 position as Assistant Professor in the Department of...
View ArticleCollaborations
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 yet got around to linking them here. The...
View ArticleOn social media, digital politics, and personal change
As I gear up for my first semester at the University of Maryland, I’m thinking a lot about academic and social positionings, offline and on. More particularly, about my own online positioning and how...
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Yes is No: speculative thoughts on the Scottish referendum
I don’t write a lot here about being Scottish. I haven’t ever made much of it in my academic work, in my professional life. I haven’t lived in Scotland since 2003, and my nationality usually comes up...
View ArticleDC Queer Studies Symposium: Queer Speculations (April 17 2015)
One of the first and most exciting tasks I’ve undertaken in my new job has been inviting speakers and developing the theme for the annual DC Queer Studies Symposium – an event I watched longingly from...
View ArticleEmbodied digital humanities: a few links
When I set up this website, I decided to commit to blogging once a month. That hasn’t exactly happened since I embarked on the tenure track… It hasn’t been for lack of activity, though. Most recently,...
View ArticleWisCon Academic Track: call for proposals
This year, along with Lauren Lacey, I have taken over as co-chair of academic programming at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention for which I have immense and enduring love. The convention...
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Queer Speculations: the first event
This week, Tavia Nyong’o was on campus for the first installment of Queer Speculations, the LGBT Studies lecture series and conference (April 17!) that I have been working on this semester along with...
View ArticleQueer Speculations: Twitter archive
Almost a week ago, we had the culmination of my first year at UMD: the DC Queer Studies Symposium, Queer Speculations. From the opening sessions to the celebratory dancing afterward, it was a really...
View ArticleTiptree Fellowships 2015: call for applications
I’ve just come back from WisCon, the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention (now in its 39th year), where I am now co-chairing the academic track. It went fabulously, and I’m looking...
View Article#transformDH Conference: Call for Video Contributions!
I’m incredibly excited to announce that on October 2 and 3 2015, the University of Maryland Women’s Studies Department will host a gathering for scholars and practitioners doing gender, race,...
View ArticleTwo deadlines
This site may have been quiet of late, but its writer has been extremely busy. Two of the projects I’m most excited to be working on this semester have deadlines today, so it seemed like an excellent...
View ArticleNWSA 2015: tweets from Sara Ahmed’s magnificent keynote on Feminism and...
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View ArticleTiptree Fellows of 2015: Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée
I am exceedingly delighted to announce that the 205 cohort of Tiptree Fellows has been announced. They are the truly fabulous Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée. LaPensée expresses herself through...
View ArticleWisCon 40: academic and non-academic programming
It’s my second year as co-chair of Academic Programming at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon – which has its 40th anniversary this year. Here’s our call for papers: WisCon, the world’s...
View ArticleA digital amphibian moving through transformative worlds
Last week, I was invited to participate in the Composing Disability conference at George Washington University. Jonathan Hsy organized a wonderful panel titled Digitial Amphibians: Parallel Lives and...
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