Teaching
I am on a research sabbatical for Fall 2023. My Spring 2024 courses are LIT 102 Approaches to Literature (two sections) and LIT 210 Speculative Fiction (which will include discussion of the books listed below). In Summer 2024 I will teach LIT 499 Dystopian Literature.
Speculative Fiction course:
Butler, Octavia. Bloodchild and Other Stories
Clark, P. Djeli. A Dead Djinn in Cairo, in Tor, https://www.tor.com/2016/05/18/a-dead-djinn-in-cairo/
Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle
El-Mohtar, Amal, and Max Gladstone. This is How You Lose the Time War
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness
Okorafor, Nnedi, Noor
Roanhorse, Rebecca, editor. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022
Research
- walking and talking trees in Anglo-American speculative fiction
- early modern British poetry
Latest good read
Rundell, Katherine. Super-Infinite (fascinating biography of John Donne)
Latest good movie or series
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (documentary)
