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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Teaching College Writing, Annotated...
This is the fifty-third post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214, Summer 2014: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Day 1 of 2)
Popular or Sci-Fi depictions: The Creature in Boris Karloff disguise and Victor Frankenstein as the mad scientist. Today, my LMC 3214 students and I shifted our attention away from contemporary science...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Social Theory, Cultural Capital, Market...
This is the fifty-sixth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214, Summer 2014: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Day 2 of 2)
Georgia Tech: Engineering Great Minds. During today’s LMC 3214 Science Fiction class, I continued my lecture on the importance of the Biology of Mind to Frankenstein specifically and Science Fiction...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Social Theory, Prize Based Cultural...
This is the fifty-seventh post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Comprehensive Exam 2 of 3, Postmodern...
This is the fifty-ninth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Science Fiction, LMC 3214, Summer 2014: Proto-SF, Voyages Extraordinaires,...
Since I will be out of town on business during Wednesday’s class, I made this lecture video for my on-campus and off-campus students. It is available as an MP4 on T-Square > Resources, too. Besides...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Comprehensive Exam 3 of 3, Fiction of...
This is the sixtieth post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Recovered Writing, Unpublished Essay, Michael Bay’s Transformers and the New...
This is the sixty-first post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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Atlanta Science Fiction Society Talk on Teaching SF at Georgia Tech, Tomorrow
Atlanta Science Fiction Society logo. If you’re in the area tomorrow, you can catch my talk on teaching science fiction at Georgia Tech at the Atlanta Science Fiction Society meeting at the Sandy...
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Minireview: The Reconcilers Graphic Novel Volume 1
The Reconcilers Vol. 1. While Y and I were sitting for several hours in an airplane–on the ground, I had the pleasure of meeting the writer, actor, and director Erik Jensen. After I mentioned to him...
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Science Fiction, LMC3214, Summer 2014: Exploring Cultural Connections Through...
The Millennium Falcon circles Tech Tower. Before closing out the last class that I would teach at Georgia Tech as a Brittain Fellow, I brought a great big container of LEGO bricks to class for my...
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2015 Science Fiction Research Association Conference Wrap-Up
Stony Brook University, Charles Wang Center The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) held its forty-sixth annual conference on June 25-28, 2015 at Stony Brook University in the Charles B. Wang...
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Déjà vu or Reality: On Reading William Gibson’s Virtual Light
Over the weekend, I began reading William Gibson’s “Bridge Trilogy” beginning with his novel, Virtual Light (1993). Reading the novel, I had a tremendous sense of déjà vu that was impossible to shake....
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What Do We Call Their Union: On Reading William Gibson’s Idoru
Continuing with William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy, I read Idoru (1996) this past Sunday. My sense of deja vu was as pronounced as when I read Virtual Light, but I still cannot bring myself to say with...
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Living in the Present with Vintage Computers, and Reading the Past as a...
Having just finished William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties (1999) and thus concluding his Bridge Trilogy, I cannot say with anything resembling certainty that I have read or not read these novels...
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Site Update: Course Syllabi and Assignments Added Under Teaching Section
Over the weekend, I added new pages under the Teaching menu option for the courses that I have taught, am teaching, and will teach. Each course page includes descriptions, syllabi, and assignments...
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Before Cyberpunk: Science Fiction and Early Personal Computing (for the 13th...
For the New York City College of Technology, CUNY’s 13th Annual Research Poster Session, I created the poster embedded above to illustrate my current research on pre-cyberpunk science fiction (SF)...
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Customized LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon 75105 from The Force Awakens
Introduction After watching Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens for the first of four times (so far), I purchased the new LEGO Millennium Falcon 75105 (LEGO website page and Brickset model page)....
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CFP: NANO Special Issue: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters,...
I’m co-editing (with my colleagues Alan Lovegreen and Sean Scanlan) a special issue of NANO New American Notes Online that explores Star Wars: The Force Awakens as narrative, character, media, and...
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