I support the creation of this forum.

I support the formation of this forum.

Serk-Bae Suh

I support the creation of LLC Pre-14-Century Chinese! 

I support the formation of Pre-14th Century Chinese. I am particularly interested in Daoist/Confucianist works and would be happy to serve on a committee or help in any way.

I endorse the formation of “Pre-14th Century Chinese.”

Arabella Lyon, Professor of English, Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing, University at Buffalo

I endorse the formation of a new forum for “Pre-14th Century Chinese.”

I will. Grace is in our group, of course, and she brings good students to our discussion. I will pass on your greetings :).

A

“At Portland State University,…”

OMG,  Grace Dillon, one of the essayists in our collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars, teaches at your school.

You get old enough (let’s just say a couple years beyond 60) and you start to *know everybody*!  Tell Grace I said “Hi” and “Milli gwetch”–that “thanks” in Anishinaabe. -Glo

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I don’t know as much about Latin American fantastic literature as I’d like, so I’m very interested in what you had to say, Silvia. In general, it always strikes me as odd how conservative academics can be. And in a broader sense, the whole concept of “legitimate” is troublesome because of the power issues underlying who decides what is and is not,…[Read more]

I wish the United States were better at carrying translated editions of works. This sounds like a fascinating anthology. I would love to read it!

I will agree with Josh. However, for Latin America, there is an additional twist. The raise of the fantastic since the mid 1940s until it became the paramount literary “authentic” (for lack of better, quick words) literary form, displaced any other literary form from the center of the cultural field. Debates between realist and fantastic…[Read more]

HOW TO JUSTIFY SF AS SCIENTIFIC  AND WORTH INCLUDING IN CLASS: Tips from a veteran of the struggle

I work with the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory education outreach committee.  That may not sound like fun automatically, but we are planning a workshop around hard science SF, which is less written today than it was in A…[Read more]

Oh dear, it looks like I accidentally posted twice. Sorry!

There are some amazing conversations going on here. Going back to the initial question, why do so many academics fail to recognize SF as a legitimate literature, part of that stems from the rise of the novel and the idea that social realism is–to paraphrase the literary critic F. R. Levis–the only subject worth writing about. This is tied into…[Read more]

There are some amazing conversations going on here. Going back to the initial question, why do so many academics fail to recognize SF as a legitimate literature, part of that stems from the rise of the novel and the idea that social realism is–to paraphrase the literary critic F. R. Levis–the only subject worth writing about. This is tied into…[Read more]