As the managing editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, I am proud to announce that if you've been looking forward to our new issue, you can find it open access at our new site: https://fafnir.journal.fi/ In 132 pages, our authors cover everything from new perspectives on classics like #Tolkien to #GameStudies and #technonaturalism, not to mention reviews of a wide range of academic books.

Am ever honored to have my lectio praecursoria, "Technonaturalist Speculative Fiction and Literary Affordance", published in glorious Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. The dragon has also found a new home at the journal.fi research platform. Come one, come all! https://fafnir.journal.fi/article/view/155865

My dissertation has been donwloaded a whopping 300 times?! Are you missing a copy of The Sky Above the Port Was the Color of Capitalism: Literary Affordance and Technonaturalist Speculative Fiction? Get yours here: https://helda.helsinki.fi/items/d5576644-26e8-4f10-b622-0fc3a7acd4ff #LiteraryStudies #ContemporaryLiterature #CognitiveNarratology #CognitiveLiteraryStudies #Narratology #SpeculativeFiction #Technonaturalism #SFStudies #Affordance #Bookstodon #OpenAccess

Parasta päästä tänään juhlimaan huippututkijaystävän kirjajulkkareita (Tiedekulma klo 17!). Kaisa Kortekallion tuore teos "Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement" on kunnianhimoista tutkimusta parhaimmillaan. Sneaky peeky saatavilla kustantajan sivuilla: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mutant-narratives-in-ecological-science-fiction-9781350296770/ #FeministPosthumanism, #CognitiveNarratology #ScienceFictionStudies #SFStudies #LiteraryStudies

I've been contributing my "Looking Back on Genre History" segments to the #StarShipSofa #podcast for 15 years now. All of my past segments are listed (with their topics and links!) on the "Podcasting" page of my website. (Scroll down to the "Looking Back on Genre History" section.)

#ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionStudies #SFStudies #GenreHistory #ScienceFictionHistory #SFF #Podcasting
https://www.amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9

I posted my 2022 #SFF award eligibility!

Sorry it took me a while - I spent most of 2023 being sick so far.

It has stories, poems, academic articles (the articles aren't all SFF-related).

On Patreon for now, because I need to fix something on my website. Free post, if it gives a popup, just close it (sorry!)

I'll thread highlights here!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/79115033

Just a heads up for #LitStudies and #scifi studies people who, like me, end up missing #CfP deadlines.

#ASA 2023 (Montreal) submissions are open all of January.

#MELUS 2023 (Indianapolis) is taking abstracts until January 10th.

#MLA 2024 (Philadelphia): call for papers for seminars can be posted from now through February. And paper abstracts are submitted in March (I believe).

The Utopian Studies Society (#USS) call usually runs through mid-May. Also keeping my eyes open for the NYC #CityTech Science Fiction conference (which I've sadly missed so far) and #ICFA.

I'm taking a time-out from #ACLA. A reproductive rights seminar the year that Roe is repealed is apparently not CompLit enough? Let me hold my peace before I re-litigate long-standing disciplinary gripes.

#LitStudies #Academia #sfstudies @litstudies

Glad to see that my Afterword to a special issue of the journal Anthropology and Humanism on anthropology and science fiction has been published online! Thanks a million to Naveeda Khan and Andrew Brandel for inviting me to respond to their special issue.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anhu.12415