Activity – Patrick Whitmarsh – Humanities Commons

Patrick Whitmarsh started the topic CFP: Lovecraft's Weird Modernism (MLA 2017 Special Session) in the discussion Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago

Lovecraft’s relationship to modernism/modernity; Lovecraft and race; Lovecraft and science/technology; Lovecraft and modernist gothic; modernism and weird fiction. Abstracts, 200-300 words by 1 March 2016; Patrick Whitmarsh (pwhitmar@bu.edu).

Link: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_8647
Patrick Whitmarsh replied to the topic Science Fiction Readers Demographics in the forum Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months ago

Great topic, and good comments!

I may be incorrect, but I feel as though the stigma against SF in literature departments is gradually decreasing, especially since publications like Carl Freedman’s Critical Theory and Science Fiction and Fredric Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future. That said, I certainly agree that we still see the effects of…[Read more]
Patrick Whitmarsh changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Patrick Whitmarsh