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In Progress/ Forthcoming

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Gothic Nature Journal TV/Film Review of Liz Garbus’ The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 finale “The Wilderness” (2021) and Robin Wright’s Land (2021), Spring 2023

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“Space Cowboys and Alien Landscapes: Feminist Science Studies and Environmental Narratives in Leigh Brackett’s Science Fiction,” in Unbound, Summer 2023.

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 “Looking Back to Look Forward: Teaching Women’s Historical Science Narratives for Environmental Advocacy” for MLA Options for Teaching series book, Teaching Science Writing, Fall 2023.

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Co-editor of Creatures in the Classroom: Teaching Environmental Creature Features, Lever Press, Fall 2023.

Published

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“Introduction” and co-editor, Environmental Creature Feature Special Issue in Science Fiction Film and Television, Spring 2021.

“‘Leaving a record of their coming’: The Creature from the Black Lagoon in the Anthropocene,” and in Science Fiction Film and Television, Spring 2021.

“The Extinction-haunted Salton Sea in The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)” in Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene.

“All of this is terminal”: Devolution in Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God” in Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss, Ed. Jonathan Elmore, Rowman and Littlefield’s Lexington Ecocrticial Theory and Practice Series, Spring 2020.

“Rebellions Are Built on Hope” in Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Winter 2019.

“Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction.” Review of Patrick B. Sharp’s Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction: Angels, Amazons, and Women in Science Fiction Research Association Review, Spring 2019.

Gender and Environment in Science Fiction.  Co-edited with Christy Tidwell and wrote chapter, “Female Beasties: Camp Resistance in 1950s SF Wom-Animal Creature Features.” Rowman and Littlefield’s Lexington Ecocrticial Theory and Practice Series, January 2019.

“Gender in 1950s Invasion Films.” Review of Susan A George’s Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders from the Suburbs in Extrapolation, Fall 2015.

“Making it Graphic” in The Pocket Instructor: Literature. Ed. Diana Fuss and William Gleason. Princeton University Press. 2015

“Through the Plexiglass: A History of Museum Dioramas.” The Atlantic Online. Ed. Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg, October 14, 2015.

“ASLE’s Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts.” Conference Report. Science Fiction Research Association Review. Summer 2015

“‘Perpetually waving to an unseen crowd’: Humor and Material Feminist Discourses in Beauty Queens” in Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. Ed. Sara K. Day, Miranda Green-Barteet, and Amy L.Montz. Ashgate. 2014.

Review of Dianne Newell and Victoria Lamont’s Judith Merril: A Critical Study in Science Fiction Research Association Review, Spring 2013.

“‘It Began This Way’: The Synonymy of Cartography and Writing as Utopian Cognitive Mapping in Herland.” Utopian Studies 17.2 2006: 299-316.

“Louise Meriwether.” Encyclopedia of African-American Women Writers. Vol 2. Ed. Yolanda Williams Page. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 402-05.

Grants and Awards

Sabbatical Awarded Fall 2020 for research on Women in Popular Science book project.

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Dunham Faculty Develop Research Grant. “Gender in Science Fiction Ecomedia.” June 2016.

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Promoting Girls in STEM Grant, Workshop Organizer and Presenter. Spring 2016          

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Dunham Faculty Development Teaching Grant. “Development of Science Policy and Classroom Inquiry Experiences for General Education.” With Sharon Miller. January 2016. 

Presentations

"Writing for Advocacy: Teaching Women’s Historical Science Narratives and Writing in Environmental Studies," The College

English Association, March 2023.

‘You didn't think this was the end, did you? It is now’: Women’s Survivor/Revenge Narratives as Ecohorror,” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2022.

“Hidden Gems on Campus: The Greenhouse,” Aurora University Faculty Teaching and Research Symposium, March 2022.

“Nature Creeps Back: Creature Features and the Environment with Christy Tidwell and Bridgitte Barclay,” EcoCast, October 2021.

“‘Webs of speculative fabulation’: Creating Speculative Ecomedia in the Classroom,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, July 2021.

“Snow Lizards, Space Cowboys, and Missing Twins: Leigh Brackett’s Contributions to The Empire Strikes Back,” Realizing Resistance II, May 2021.

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“Women and Popular Science: Reframing Delia Akeley and Osa Johnson’s Early 20th Century Ecomedia,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, November 2019.

“‘Leaving a record of their coming’: The Creature from the Black Lagoon in the Anthropocene,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, June 2019.

“‘Rebellions are built on hope’: Women and Star Wars,” Digital Frontiers Conference, Realizing Resistance, May 2019.

“The Storied Matter of Science Fiction: Making Kin and Cosmovisions in Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God,” Invited Plenary for Hermanns Lecture Series, University of Texas Arlington, November 2018.

“Extinction-haunted Frontiers in Mid-century SF-horror Films,” Ecomedia in the Anthropocene, Nearly Carbon Neutral ASLE-sponsored Symposium, June 2018.

“Camp Resistance: Animal Avatars and Gender Exaggeration in 1950s Creature Features,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Detroit MI, 2017.

“Through the Plexiglass: A History of Museum Dioramas,” Invited Speaker for the Schingoethe Center, March 2017.

Suffragette, Aurora University Arts and Ideas Invited Speaker, November 2016.

“Satire as Resistance in Fourth Wave Material Gender Studies Rhetoric,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City UT, 2016.

“Bitch Planet: Non-Compliance, Science Fiction, Comics, and Bad Feminism,” American Literature Association, San Francisco CA, 2016.

“Gamera, Our Last Hope: Kaiju and Teaching Environmental Discourses,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Moscow ID, 2015.

“Desires and Daydreams: Recreating the ‘Animal’ in Museum Habitat Dioramas,” Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Conference, Chicago IL, 2014.

“Circus or Science?: Eden, Evolution, and Akeley’s Influence in Two Early SF Films,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference, Lawrence KS, 2013.

“‘Always as a movement forward’: Feminist Science in The Green Kingdom (1957),” WisCon, Madison WI, 2013.

“Formaldehyde Fish and Drivable Ducks: SF Form and Environmental Themes in a Global

Speculative Fiction Course.” Eaton and Science Fiction Research Association Conference, Riverside CA, 2013.

“Disemboweled Suburbs: Teaching Zombie Fiction as Gothic Literature.” American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2012.

“‘Who is it tends the garden?’ Teaching Environmental Ethics with Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood.” The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Bi-annual Conference, Bloomington, 2011.

“A Quiet Fury Rising”: A Feminist Assessment of Ayn Rand.” Invited Speaker, UTA Women’s Studies Department Lecture Series, 2010.

“‘Life is a Tragedy Even Under the Most Favorable Conditions’: Teaching Mizora as an Ambiguous Utopia,” SSAWW Annual Convention, Philadelphia, 2009.

“‘They are still the same ineffectual weaklings, my daughters…’ Satire and Parody as Modes of Subversion in American Women-authored Utopian and Science Fiction,” RMMLA Annual Convention, Reno, 2008

“Women’s Spaces: Feminist Desire and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition,” The Society for Utopian Studies 32nd Annual Conference, Toronto, 2007

Invited Plenary Panelist, “Emerging Voices in Utopian Studies,” The Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, 2006

Faculty Senator, Humanities, Spring 2022-Present

Chair, Governance and Elections Committee, Spring 2022-Present

Co-coordinator, Environmental Studies, Summer 2022-Present

ASLE Public Engagement Officer, Summer 2021-Present

ASLE Executive Council, elected, 3-year term, Fall 2019-Present

Skyway Writers’ Nonfiction Workshop Leader and Judge, Fall 2022

Co-host, Artist Talk, “Sea Change” & eARTh Tones,” Spring 2022

Lexington Manuscript Reviewer, Summer 2022

Routledge Manuscript Reviewer, Summer 2021,2022

Stream co-chair, ASLE’s Emergence/y Conference, Summer 2021

Medical Humanities Manuscript Reviewer, Summer 2021

Chair, English Department,Fall 2018-Summer 2022

Faculty Promotions Committee, Fall 2018-Spring 2019

Liberal Arts Dean Search Committee, Fall 2018-Spring 2018

ASLE-SFRA Liaison,  Spring 2018-Present

Gender, Place, and Culture Manuscript Reviewer, Spring 2018

Worldcon Academic Track Submission Committee, Spring 2018

Co-leader, ASLE Ecomedia Special Interest Group,  Summer 2017-Present

Co-Organizer, Ecomedia in the Anthropocene Symposium, Spring 2017-Summer 2018

NOLOS Faculty Advisor, Summer 2017-Fall 2017

Critical Questions in Education Article Reviewer, Fall 2015
General Education Committee, Fall 2015-Spring 2017

Co-planner, ENG 3880: Social Work Practices and Gender Studies, Costa Rica, Fall 2015

Sexual Assault Prevention Taskforce, Fall 2014

Science and Society Co-Coordinator, Spring 2014-Spring 2017

Co-chair, English Department, Fall 2013

Academic Standards Committee (Chair, 2014-15), Fall 2013- Summer 2015

Co-director of Gender Studies Minor, Fall 2012-Fall 2018

Departmental Review, Graduate Student Committee, Spring 2009

Assistant Director of First-year English, Fall 2008

Ad Hoc Member Hiring Committee for Latina/Latino Literature Faculty, 2007-2008

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