Chair: Andrew Bridges, California State University, Fullerton
Christian Haines, Penn State University Terraforming Spiders and Talking Cows: Planetary Utopianism in Adrian Tchaikovsky and Annalee Newitz Andrew Bridges, California State University, Fullerton Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow & The End of HIstory: Mediating Ideas of Utopia Peter Sands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The World Gives Way: Persistent Hope; Certain Death Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University Death, Inc.: Utopia for the Rest of Us
Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Kingsville
Dr. Stephanie Peebles Tavera is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. She is the author of (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). She is also the author of the critical... Read More →
Saturday October 19, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Tulum A
Chair: Jared Rusnak, University of Pennsylvania Elise Poll, Arizona State University Fleeing and Finding: Exploring Hostile and Hospitable Places in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower Adam J. Goldsmith, Northwestern University Hope in-against-beyond the Gutter: Towards a Notion of Utopian Strategy Hailey Gilles, Temple University Law That Holds the Line: Preserving the Potential for Utopia in Our Legal Precedent Jordan Huston, Loyola University Now and Always: A Utopian Retort to Political Pessimism
Chair: andre carrington, University of California, Riverside Tulum B [Has A/V] Phil Wegner, University of Florida Hobbled and Handicapped Before the Race Even Began: Allegory and Hope in Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys Susan Hegeman, University of Florida Gatekeeping and the Fascist End of the Public Sphere in Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill Patricia Ventura, Spelman College The American Anti-Fascism
