LisaYaszek
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate
Studies
School of Literature, Communication
and Culture
President
Science Fiction Research Association
Editor
Extrapolation
Speculative fiction (science fiction, postmodern fabulation, afrofuturism,
slipstream narrative), science and technology studies, gender studies, cultural
history
Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on
Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre. Co-edited with
Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, and Patrick B.
Sharp. (McFarland, 2010).
Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s
Science Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State
University Press, 2008.
The Self Wired:
Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative. New
York and London: Routledge, 2002.
“Democratizing the Past to Improve the Future: An
Interview with Steampunk Godfather Paul Di Filippo.” Neo-Victorian Studies Special Issue on Steampunk. Forthcoming.
“Science Fiction.” The Routledge Companion
to Literature and Science. Eds. Bruce Clarke and Manuela
Rossini. New York and London: Routledge,
forthcoming.
“Cultural History.” The Routledge Companion
to Science Fiction. Eds. Andrew Butler, Mark Bould,
Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint.
New York and London: Routledge, 2009. 194-203.
“Science Fiction.” Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present.
Ed. Sue V. Rosser. Oxford, UK: ABC-Clio, 2008. 419-426.
“Shadows on the Cathode Ray Tube: Adapting Golden Age Science Fiction for
Television.” The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader. Ed. Jay Telotte. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2008.
55-68.
“Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the History of
the Future." Socialism and Democracy 20.3 (November 2006): 41-60.
"From Ladies' Home Journal to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:
1950s Science Fiction, the Offbeat Romance Story, and the Case of Alice Eleanor
Jones." Daughters
of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier. Wesleyan University Press,
2006. 76-96.
“Afrofuturism and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” Rethinking
History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 9.2/3 (June/September 2005):
297-313.
“‘I’ll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy,”
Or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?” electronic book review (Spring 2005): http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_id=yaszekwp.
"Stories 'That Only a Mother' Could Write: Midcentury Peace Activism, Maternalist Politics, and Judith Merril’s
Early Fiction.” NWSA
Journal 16.2, (summer 2004): 70-97.
“The Women History Doesn’t See: Recovering Midcentury Women’s SF as a
Literature of Social Critique.” Extrapolation 45.1 (spring 2004): 34-51.
"'A grim fantasy': Remaking American History in Octavia Butler’s
Kindred." Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28.4 (2003): 1053-1067.
President’s Undergraduate Research
Awards, 2003-2008; 2010-present
National Science Foundation Science
and Society Research Grant, 2007-2008
Pioneer Award for Excellence in
Scholarship, Science Fiction Research Association, 2005
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Research Stipend, 2004
Class of ’69 Teaching Fellowship,
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002
Marion L. Brittain
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-2000
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~lyaszek
http://sciencefictionlab.lcc.gatech.edu
Science Fiction Research Association
Society for Literature, Science and
the Arts
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association