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Articles

"Business Girls and Beset Men in Pulp Science Fiction and Science Fiction Fandom." femspec 7.1 (Fall 2006): 5-35.

"'A Finer and Fairer Future': Commodifying Wage Earners in American Pulp Science Fiction." Endeavour v. 30, iss. 3 (Sept. 2006): 92-7.

Other Writings

Is Clementa Science Fiction?” Published Spring 2008 at www.clementanovel.com.

Oooooo!, We Hate Bush!” Rev. of Hollywood’s New Radicalism: War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush by Ben Dickerson. New York: J. B. Tauris, 2006. femspec 7.2.

Content Consultant for Claudia Borges’s chat bot used at “Tangent_Conspiracy,” an online colloquium on conspiracy theory by the Media Design Group of the Piet Zwart Institute and V2_: Institute for Unstable Media online event December 1, 2006.

Mental Labor and the Cultural Work of Agency Panic.” Review essay of The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work by Andrew Hoberek. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Symploke v. 14, n. 1-2.

Buffy, Who?” Review Essay of Athena’s Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors, edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2003. femspec 7.2.

"Rev. of Frek and the Elixir," by Rudy Rucker.  New York: Tor, 2004.   SFRA Review [Science Fiction Research Association Review]n. 269 (July-Sept. 2004). 

"Rev. of Atomic Bomb Cinema," by James F. Shapiro.  New York: Routledge, 2001.   American Studies International v. 41, n. 3 (October 2003). 

"Rev. of Death of a Nation," by David W. Noble.  Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 2002.   American Studies International v. 41, n. 3 (October 2003). 

Conference Presentations

"Response to 'Redefining Collectivity, Redefining Graffiti' by Freja Pelich." The George Washington University Research and Writing Symposium, Washington, DC, April 2006.

"(Re)Writing the Corporate University: Literacies, Archives, and 'Public Spaces': A Roundtable." With Phyllis Ryder, Christy Zink, and Carol Hayes. Cultural Studies Association (US) Conference. Arlington, Virginia, April 2006.

"Self-Invention: The Promise and Peril of Pulp Science Fiction's Educational Rhetoric in Industrializing America." History of Science Society
Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2005.

"Wage Earners and Work: Pulp Science Fiction as Vernacular Theory." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. San Antonio, Texas, April 2004

"Amateur Experimenters in Professionalizing America: Tinkering with Modern Authority in Hugo Gernsback’s Radio and Electrics Magazines, 1908 – 1923." American Studies Association Conference. Houston, Texas, 2002.

"Riding the Cosmic Express in the Age of Mass Production: Independent Inventors as Pulp Heroes in American Science Fiction, 1926 – 1939." Science Fiction Research Association Conference, Schenectady, New York, 2001.

Media Appearances

"Tech-Nos" Avoid New Technology. Fox 5 News @ 10. WTTC TV (Washington, DC). January 11, 2007. Write me for access to an FLV file of my appearance.

Science and The Amateur, on Chicago Public Radio's Odyssey, February 24, 2004. Appeared with Science Historian Paul Farber (Oregon State University) and Host Gretchen Helfrich.

Science Movies, on Chicago Public Radio's Odyssey, April 14, 2004 . Appeared with Film Scholar Scott Curtis (Northwestern University) and Host Gretchen Helfrich.

 

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