Description: Reexamining science fiction’s relation to modernist writing and positioning science fiction as a modernist project, participants explore various perspectives on the formal and stylistic exchanges between modernism and science fiction and ask what common aesthetic and political motivations are shared by the literary modes.

Speakers

Gerry Canavan, Marquette U

Kate Marshall, U of Notre Dame

Paul March-Russell, U of Kent

Sierra Senzaki, U of Texas, Austin

Kate Perillo, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Presider

Patrick Whitmarsh, Boston U