Brooks Landon

VITA (February 2013)

Office: English Department (319) 335-0454/335-0641 376 EPB [email protected] University of Iowa Iowa City IA, 52242 FAX: (319) 335-2535

Home: 505 Oakland (319) 338-8233 Iowa City, IA 52240 (319) 270-9310

Education:

BA, Centre College of Kentucky, 1970 MA, University of Texas at Austin, 1973 PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1978

Military Service: US Army, 1970-72

Honors:

2011 Awarded Herman J. and Eileen S. Schmidt Endowed Professorship Faculty Commencement Speaker, Liberal Arts Commencement, December 2010 2010 Appointed University College Miller Teaching Scholar 2003 Collegiate Fellows Award (Reappointed 2008) 2001 Alumnus Election to Phi Beta Kappa, Centre College 2001 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) Distinguished Scholarship Award 1996 Recipient of the M. L. Huit Teaching Award. Faculty Commencement Speaker, Liberal Arts Commencement, December 1996

Teaching at Iowa:

Appointed Assistant Professor, English Department, 25 Aug 78; Associate Professor, Spring 1984; Professor, Spring 1990

Courses taught in Contemporary American Fiction, Literature and Culture of Twentieth Century America, Modern Fiction, Postmodern Fiction, Hypermedia Fiction and Scholarship, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Film, Prose Style, Nonfiction Writing, Theory of Teaching Literature, Electronic Textuality.

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Recent Teaching (Number of students in parentheses):

Spring 2013: 8:2 Postmodern Fiction (54) Fall 2012: 8:98 Honors Proseminar: Pillars of Postmodernism (17), 8:136 Topics in Popular Culture: Dead is the New Alive: The Zombie Metaphor in Popular Fiction, Film, TV, and Video Games (60); Colloquium: Teaching Literature (24). Spring 2012: 8:2 Postmodern Fiction (54); 8N:102 Prose Style (18). Fall 2011: 8:240 Readings in American Fiction: History and Theory of SF (13); 8G:1 Honors (taught as a voluntary overload-11) Interpretation of Literature Spring 2011: 8:2 Postmodern Fiction (54); 8N:102 Prose Style (22) Fall 2010: 8G:1 Honors Interpretation of Literature (22) Spring 2010: 8:2 Postmodern Fiction (32), 8N:102 Prose Style (31) Fall 2009: 8G:1 Honors Interpretation of Literature (for University Honors Program) Spring 2009: 8:2 Postmodern Fiction, 8N:102 Prose Style Fall 2008, 8G:1 Honors Interpretation of Literature (for University Honors Program) Spring 2008, 8:1 Modern Fiction, 8N:102 Prose Style Fall 2007, 8G:1 Honors Interpretation of Literature (for University Honors Program) Spring 2007, 8:98 Honors Proseminar: Ulysses, 8N:102 Prose Style Fall 2006, 8G:1 Interpretation of Literature Summer 2005, 8N:102 Prose Style Spring 2005: 8:1 Modern Fiction (large lecture class) Fall 2004: 8G:1 General Education Literature Summer 2004: 8:182 The Science Fiction of Otherhood Spring 2004: 8:1 Modern Fiction (large lecture class) Fall 2003: 8G:1 General Education Literature Summer 2004: 8:182 Feminist Science Fiction Spring 2003: 8:1 Modern Fiction (large lecture class) Fall 2002: 8:1 Modern Fiction (large lecture class) Summer 2002: 8:182 Contemporary Science Fiction/SF on the Web Spring 2002: 8N102 Prose Style Fall 2001: 8:1 Modern Fiction (large lecture class) Summer 2001: 8:182 Contemporary Science Fiction/SF on the Web

Recent Dissertations directed: 10 Directed Dissertations in Progress: Wanda Raiford, Rob Albanese, Elizabeth Lundberg, Robert Gillespie Dissertations defended in 2010: Joshua Raulerson, Douglas Dowland Recent Honors Theses directed: 19 Honors Theses in Progress: John Gray, Jamie Simpher Total MA with Emphasis in Expository Writing Theses Directed: 12 MFA in Nonfiction Writing Theses Directed: 1 Total PhD Dissertations Directed: 12

While I remain an active director of PhD dissertations my primary classroom commitment is to undergraduate education. The most significant aspect of this commitment is my continuing 3

service as Director of the General Education Literature Program. All of my courses are designed for and open to undergraduates, particularly including my focus on hypertext/multimedia/internet in new courses.

Departmental Service:

Director, Gen Ed Lit (Fall 2006--) Member CLAS Committee to Review the Gen Ed Lit Program, Fall 2012 Member American Search Committee (Shadowing in Fall 2008/replacement Spring 2009) Member, Outcomes Assessment Committee (2007) Program Administrator, AAWS, 2004-06 General Education Literature Faculty Mentor (one of six) Chair, 1999-2005 Director, Undergraduate Writing Program, 1998-1999 Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 1997-98 Assistant Director, Undergraduate Studies, 1996-97 English Department Webmaster, 1995-98 Member, Contemporary British Search Committee, 1995 Chair, Computer Committe/Coordinator EPB ITC 1994-98 Chair, Contemporary Search Committee, 1994 Chair, Honors Committee, 1991-94 Director, Undergraduate Program, 1985-90 Executive Committee, 1983-86, 1988-89, Spring 1992- Director, MA/W Program 1980-1985

University Service:

Outreach: Humanities Iowa Invited Talks on Science Fiction, Pella City Library, July 2006, Kirkwood Community College, November 2006, Council Bluffs Public Library and St. Albert High School, February 2007. I have just given the Humanities Iowa Speaker’s Bureau two new presentations I’m prepared to make: “A User’s Guide to Postmodern Fiction” and “Building Better Sentences: A Quick and Dirty and Pretty Much Grammar-Free Guide to More Effective Writing”

University:

Member, University of Iowa Press Editorial Board, Fall 2012-- Member, Ad Hoc Promotion to Professor Committee for Kembrew McCloud, Fall 2012 Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion to Professor Committee for Carol Severino, Rhetoric, Fall 2011 Member, Ad Hoc Promotion to Professor Committee for Kembrew McCloud, Comm Studies (Candidate Withdrew application) Fall, 2011 University College Faculty Member, 2010-- CLAS General Education Advisory Committee (GEAC) 2007-2008 Executive Committee: UI Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute, 4

Fall 2006-- African American World Studies Advisory Council (ex officio) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities and Social Science Building Committee, 2004 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Review Committee, 2002-2003 Provost’s Humanities Initiative Committee, 2002 College of Liberal Arts Task Force on Writing/Communication Resources, 2001 College of Liberal Arts Task Force on Implications of Learning Technologies, 1998 Undergraduate Honors Award Program Speaker, May 1997 Faculty Commencement Speaker, Liberal Arts Commencement, December 1996 University of Iowa Faculty Representative to CIC ITTL (Web Learning Tools) Conference, Spring 1997 Planning Committee for the Iowa Symposium on Learning Technologies (Learning Opportunities in a Digital Age), 1996-97 Board Member, Iowa Center for the Book, 1995- Electronic Literacy Initiative Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1995- University of Iowa Faculty Representative to CIC Conference on Learning Technologies, Spring 1995 Panelist, Center for Recent United States History multi-media seminar, Information Arcade, 24 February 1995 Student Computer Fee Advisory Committee, 1993-96 Review Committee for the Writers' Workshop, 1993 Search Committee for the Director of Information Technology, 1992 Search Committee for the Director of the Information Arcade ,1992 IILC (Information Arcade) Advisory Committee, 1991-95 University Task Force on Parenting, 1989-90

Professional Service:

External Reviewer, Promotion to Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Tech, August 2011 External Reviewer, Gary Snyder Endowed Chair in Science and the Humanities, UC Davis, Dec 2011 External Reviewer for Chanceller’s Research Chair, Brock University, Canada. January, 2011 External Reviewer for Promotion to Professor, English Dept Texas Christian University, Fall 2010 Manuscript Reader for Routledge: Across the Screens: Science Fiction Television and Film. J. P. Telotte and Gerald Duchovnay, April 2010. Manuscript Reader for Wesleyan UP: The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay. 2007. NAEP/ACT Reading Test Alignment Panelist, July 2009 Member, R.D. Mullen Research Fellowship committee, Science Fiction Studies/Eaton Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection, University of California, Irvine, 2008, 2009, 2010 Promotion to Associate Professor Review, English Department, University of California, Davis University, Summer 2008 Promotion to Professor Review, English Department, University of Florida, Fall 2007 5

Promotion to Associate Professor Review, English Department, West Virginia University, Fall 2006 Award of University Professor Review, DePauw University, Fall 2006 Promotion to Professor Review, English Department, University of Indiana, 2004 Promotion to Associate Professor Review, LaTrobe University, Australia, 2004 Promotion to Associate Professor Review, English Department, University of Indiana, 2002 Review of D. L. Toole Chaired Professor, Univ of South Carolina at Aiken, 2001 Promotion to full professor evaluation for English Department, University of Oregon, 2001 Promotion to Associate Professor Review for English Department, Villanova University, 2001 Judge (one of five) for the 1997 Philip K. Dick Award--a national award for the best original paperback work of science fiction Manuscript reader for Palgrave Press, PMLA, Cambridge University Press, Indiana University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Wesleyan UP, Popular Press, SUNY Press, Kent State University Press, and University of Iowa Press Promotion to full professor evaluations conducted for English Departments at Rensselaer Polytechnic, Georgia Tech, and the University of Idaho. Tenure evaluations for DePauw and Vassar. Committee Member, Pioneer Award Selection Committee, Science Fiction Research Association, 1991- , Chair, 1994-95 (Annual award for best scholarly article on science fiction during the year; Committee has three members appointed by SFRA) Guest Co-Editor, American Book Review ; Special Double Issue on "Tech-Lit," April/May 1992 & June/July 1992 Editorial Consultant, Science Fiction Studies Member, Editorial Board, Science Fiction and Film (Liverpool University Press), Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts; Guest Editor, JFA Special Issue on SF Film, Summer 1989

Professional Development/Leadership:

Participant, Learning Portfolios Workshop, January 2007 Participant, I School Outcomes Assessment Workshop, August 2006 Host, ADE Summer Seminar Midwest, Held at the University of Iowa, June 2004 Co-chair, New DEO Workshop, ADE Summer Seminar, June 2003 Participant, MLA Meeting for Chairs of Large Phd Granting English Departments, December 2001 Participant and Session Chair, Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar, June 2001 Participant and Session Co-Chair, Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar, July 2000 Participant, University of Iowa Summer Administrative Institute, 2000 Participant, MLA Meeting for Chairs of Large Phd Granting English Departments, December 2001 Participant, Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar, 1999 6

Campus Publications and Presentations:

“It’s Not Your Father’s English Department Anymore.” Presentation to the Dean’s Advisory Council, September 9, 2005. “First Contact,” Arts & Sciences, Fall 2003 Webmaster 1994-1998 English Department WWW Home Page Handbook for the Iowa English Major. June 1989. A Viewer's Guide for Watch the Sky: The American Science Fiction Movie. A 100 page booklet. Univ. of Iowa, 1983. Continuing Education,

Teaching:

Appointed University College Miller Teaching Scholar, Spring 2010. 1997/98 Coordinator (along with Tim Barrett) and Teacher of the English Department/Centre for the Book U of I Libraries Electronic Text Seminar, a seminar built around campus visits and presentations by four nationally prominent experts in electronic textuality-- Stuart Moulthrop, Nancy Kaplan, Michael Joyce, and Jay David Bolter. I was one of several teachers who provided units for the Spring 98 LSA course on cloning: 033:153 Hard Cases: Science, Policy, and Values. I presented the way cloning has been constructed in science fiction. Course repeated in Fall 1998. 1996 Recipient of the M. L. Huit Teaching Award. This is an award for contributions to student life at the University of Iowa and is made by the student members of Omicron Delta Kappa. 1994 Council on Teaching Grant ($3900) for establishing multimedia stations for self- paced tutorial work for 8:106 Literature and Culture of 20th C America in the EPB ITC 1994 Weeg Equipment Grant (Macintosh AV Computer with 24 M of RAM for "Hypertext on Wheels" proposal for making EPB 107 a mobile computer classroom.

Scholarship:

Multimedia/Electronic Publication

Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft. A 24 lecture series on DVD and CD for The Teaching Company. Released Summer, 2008. Nationally advertised in NY Times, New Yorker, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, The Week, The Economist, etc. Six minute preview online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Livbid8xgU

Citation in Interactions Magazine: http://mags.acm.org/interactions/20091112/?pg=74

Books

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Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Sentences You Love to Read. Viking/Plume (forthcoming Summer 2013)

Understanding Thomas Berger. University of South Carolina Press, Understanding Contemporary American Literature Series, Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed. (May 2010).

Science Fiction After 1900: From The Steam Man to the Stars. Routledge Paperback , Spring 2002.

Science Fiction After 1900: From The Steam Man to the Stars. February 1997. Twayne Genre Series. (Selected by Locus Magazine as one of its Non-Fiction Recommended Readings for 1997.)

The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production. October 1992. Greenwood Press.

Thomas Berger. June 1989. Twayne United States Authors Series.

Continuing Book Project: “Here Comes Trouble: The Cultural Functions of First Contact Narratives.” A study of narratives about first contact with new peoples and/or species, whether in conventional science fiction, discovery/exploration narratives, and the reciprocal relationship between these narratives and “scientific” rhetoric of first contact used by NASA, SETI, etc.

Grants and Grant Participation

Co-PI Iowa Social Science Research Center and Nanoscience And Nanotechnology Institute NSF 1.4 million dollar Grant Proposal: Social Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Fall 2006, Kevin Leicht PI

Participant, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute IGERT Grant Proposal, Fall 2006, Vicki Grassian, PI

Participant (representing Gen Ed Lit Program) Exploring Human Rights Across the Humanities (EHRAH) Curriculum Grant Proposal, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR), Fall 2006

Invited speaker and science fiction consultant, University of South Carolina Imaging and Imagining Nanoscience and Engineering Conference, March 3-7, 2004. This conference is one of an ongoing series of events at South Carolina focusing on the implications of nanotechnology and is funded by a major NSF grant.

Introducer and panel moderator, “Voices from the Prairie: Celebrating Writers As Visual Artists--Max Allan Collins and Paul Conrad.” September 19, 2003. University of Iowa. Humanities Iowa 4th Annual Iowa Writers’ Celebration

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Co-Writer, Lecturer, and Discussion Leader. "Journey to the Future: A Science Fictional World." A Cedar Rapids Public Library Reading and Discussion Series supported by a Humanities Iowa grant. Six public lectures and discussions: Feb 11, 2002; Feb 25, 2002; March 11, 2002; March 25, 2002; April 8, 2002; April 22, 2002

Participant in Center for the Book NEH Grant 1998-99.

Along with Professor Lauren Rabinovitz I have received an Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant for Summer 1998. Our project, "Text and Time Machine: The World's Columbian Exposition," will use the World Wide Web and CD-ROMs to construct an interactive multimedia essay arguing the cultural centrality of the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Primary Consultant for the Kirkwood Community College English Department NEH Seminar on Fiction and Technology, Summer 1997. I helped draft the Kirkwood Proposal and was responsible for leading two of the four weeks of sessions.

Television Series

"Watch the Sky: The American Science Fiction Movie." This was a 13 week series on science fiction film shown produced and broadcast in Fall 1983 by Iowa Public Television (and subsequently rebroadcast three times). I researched, wrote, hosted, and co- produced this series.

Book Introductions

"Introduction," Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction edition of William Gibson's Neuromancer. Norwalk: Easton, 1990, iii-xi. "Introduction," Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, Dell, September 1989, xi-xviii. Dell editor Bob Miller commissioned this introduction at the suggestion of Thomas Berger.

Book Chapters

“’For the Snark was a Boojum, you see’: Constructions of Extrapolation and Speculation in Science Fiction,” Oxford Guide to Science Fiction, ed. Rob Latham (in press)

“Science Fiction Tourism,” Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, eds. Mark Bould and Sheryl Vint. (January 2009)

“Computers in Science Fiction,” Reading Science Fiction, eds. James Gunn and Marleen Barr. Palgrave, October 2008, 85-95.

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A translation of my "Diegetic or digital? the convergence of science fiction literature and science fiction film in hypermedia, Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema (the sequel to Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema), Verso, 1990) ed. Annette Kuhn, Verso, 1999 was published in a Russian anthology Theory of Science Fiction Film, edited by Natalia Samutina (New Literary Observer Publishing House, 2007). My chapter is found on pages between 257 and 273 and I cannot even cite my name and the title as they appear in cyrilic.

"Less is More: Much Less is Much More: The Insistent Allure of Nanotechnology Narratives in Science Fiction Literature," in Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience, ed. N. Katherine Hayles. Intellect Books, 2004, pp. 131-146.

"Bodies in Cyberspace," in Fantastic Odysseys: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Mary Pharr, Greenwood Press/Praeger, 2003 (This is another published form of my 2002 IAFA Distinguished Scholar address.)

"Synthespians, Virtual Humans, and Hypermedia-Emerging Contours of Post-SF-Film," in Edging into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, eds. Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

"Diegetic or digital? the convergence of science fiction literature and science fiction film in hypermedia, Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema (the sequel to Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema), Verso, 1990) ed. Annette Kuhn, Verso, 1999.

"Ain't No Fiber in Cyberspace: A Metonymic Menu for a Paratactic Potpouri," Food of the Gods: Food in Science Fiction and Fantasy, George Slusser and Gary Westfahl eds. Univ of Georgia Press, 1996.

"The Literature of Information," In Memoriam to Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop. eds. Lance Olsen and Mark Amerika. San Diego: San Diego State U Press, 1995. (available at http://www.altx.com/memoriam/ This essay previously appeared in Surfing Tomorrow: Essays on the Future of American Fiction, Lance Olsen, ed. Potpourri Press, 1995

"Solos, Solitons, Info, and Invasion in Science Fiction Film," Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflict in Science Fiction and Fantasy, George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. University of Georgia Press, 1993. 194-208.

"Not What It Used To Be: The Overloading of Memory in Digital Narrative," Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. George Slusser and Tom Shippey, eds. Univ of Georgia Press, 1992. 153-167.

"Styles of Invisibility: Sustaining the Transparent in Prose Semblances," Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds, George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin eds. University of Georgia Press, 1992. 245-257. 10

"'There's Some of Me in You': Blade Runner and the Adaptation of Science Fiction Literature into Film," Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Riddley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. ed. Judith B. Kerman. Popular Press, 1991, 90-102.

""Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex," Arthur Through the Ages, ed. Valerie Lagorio. Garland, 1990, 240-254.

"The Insistence of Fantasy in Science Fiction Film," The Shape of the Fantastic, ed. Olena H. Saciuk. Greenwood Press, 1989, 249-256.

"Science Fiction in the Movies," Handbook for Science Fiction Teachers, ed. Marshall B. Tymn, Starmont House, 1988, 65-95.

Science Fiction Film." The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. James Gum, Viking, 1988, 165-172. "Music and Music Video." The New Encvclopedia of Science Fiction, 323- 326.

"Eve at the End of the World: Formula Inversions in the Novels of Angela Carter, Joanna Russ, and Thomas Berger," in Erotic Universe: Sex and Sexuality in Fantasy Literature, ed. Donald Palumbo, Greenwood Press 1986, 61-74.

Articles

“That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of Singularity.” Science Fiction Studies. March 2012, 2-14. (March, 2011 Science Fiction Studies Symposium) Delivered as one of three keynote papers, February 10, 2011 at UC, Riverside.

“Slipstream Then, Slipstream Now: The Curious Connections between William Douglas O’Connor’s ‘The Brazen Android’ and Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days.” Science Fiction Studies. Special Issue on Slipstream, #113 Volume 38, Part 1 March 2011, 67-91.

(Major Reference Work Entry) “Thomas Berger,” Critical survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Ed. Carl Rollyson. Salem Press, 2010, 444-456.

"Bodies in Cyberspace," Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 12:2 (Fall 2001), 201-212. "Not Your Father's Olds: Subverting the Semblance in the Age of Avant-Pop," Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres (Special Issue on the future of narrative, ed. Lance Olsen, Spring 1999). This is a print journal, but its web site is worth a visit at http://www.accessone.com/~paradoxa/ "Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production: On a Clear Day You Can See the Horizon of Invisibility," Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Fall 1990, 60-71. "The Measure of Little Big Man," Studies in American Fiction, Winter 1989, 131-145. 11

"Bet on It: Cyberfilm/video/punk," Mississippi Review, Summer 1988, 245-251. (Reprinted Mondo 2000, Fall 1989, 142-145; Reprinted Storming the Reality Studio. Larry McCaffery, ed. Duke Univ Press, 1992, 239-244. "Sliming Technology: The Achievement of H. R. Giger," Cinefantastique, May 1988. "MAX HEADROOM," Cinefantastique, December 1987, 29, 58. "Future So Bright They Gotta Wear Shades: Cyberpunk Film," Cinefantastique, December 1987, 27-31. "The Whole Kit and Caboodle: Language as Irony in Thomas Berger's Sneaky People and Neighbors." Studies in American Humor, October 1983, 61-71. "Gertrude Stein," Critical Survey of Long Fiction , ed. Frank Magiil, Salem, 1983, 2505-2517. "Thomas Berger," Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 247-261. "Evan S. Connell," Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 573-583. "Language and the Subversion of Good Order in Thomas Berger's Regiment of Women," Philological Quarterly, Winter 1983, 21-30. "'Not Solve It But Be In It': Gertrude Stein's Detective Stories and the Mystery of Creativity," American Literature, Nov 81, 487-498. "Thomas Berger," Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980, 12-17. Other DLB Yearbook 1980 & 1981 entries include: "Larry McMurtry," "Richard Yates," "Herbert Gold," "Evan S. Connell," and "Richard Price." "The Radical Americanist," Nation, 20 Aug 77, 151-153. (On the novels of Thomas Berger).

Invited Presentations

Invited Speaker. Science Fiction and Technology Symposium. “Teaching Science Fiction,” UC Riverside. 18 May 2012.

Invited Speaker. 2011 Sinclair Lewis Literary Conference, Sauk City, Minnesota, October 8, 2011. One of four speakers, including MacArthur Fellowship Winning writer Patricia Hample. Information at: http://www.saukherald.com/ftp/writers/presenters.html

Invited Speaker. “That Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Plurality of Singularity.” Science Fiction Studies Symposium, UC Riverside, February 10, 2011

Invited Speaker. “Building Great Sentences.” English and Creative Writing Department. Colby College, March 2011

Invited Contributor Roundtable Discussion on Proto/Early Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies, Vol 36, Part 2. July 2009, 193-204.

Invited Panelist for Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, “Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond,” UC Riverside, April 30-May 3, 2009. Multimedia Presentation: “Anticipating the Airship in Early/Proto- Science Fiction”

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“Minding the Gap: Map/Territory Distinctions in the Discourse of Nanotech.” One of four invited and featured lectures at the Literature and Nanotechnology Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, December 7-8, 2007.

"Less is More: Much Less is Much More: The Insistent Allure of Nanotechnology Narratives in Science Fiction Literature" Invited Public lecture at the Pella Public Library in connection with Humanities Iowa. July 2006.

“The Fifth Story of Ulysses.” Invited audition lecture for The Teaching Company, Chantilly, VA, October 8, 2005.

Invited Speaker. “Inventing the 21st Century: Many Worlds, Many Histories.” 21st Annual Eaton Conference, The Science Fiction Museum, Seattle Washington, May 5-7 2005

Invited Speaker. 2004 MLA Special Session on "Evaluating Teaching and Scholarship in New Media." My paper was titled "Learning Tech from Hype to Ho Hum: One Department's Digital Dreams, Deceptions, and Occasional Disappointments." I was invited by session organizer University of Nebraska Professor Kenneth Price to join UCLA Professor Kate Hayles and UVA Press administrator David Sewell on this panel.

Invited speaker. “Self-Organizing Systems: rEvolutionary Art, Science, and Literature” Conference, April 30, 2004, EDA, Kinross Building, UCLA, Organized by Nicholas Gessler and Katherine Hayles

Invited Speaker. “IMAGING AND IMAGINING NANOSCIENCE & ENGINEERING,” An International and Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 3-7, 2004

"Less is More: Much Less is Much More: The Insistent Allure of Nanotechnology Narratives in Science Fiction Literature," Invited Guest Speaker, Nanotech@UI, University of Iowa Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium on November 12th, 2003 sponsored by the OSTC and co-sponsored by the CLAS, COE and VPR Office.

Invited Guest Scholar Lecture for International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, March 2001. Recent ICFA Guest Scholars include Kate Hayles, UCLA English Department, Eric Rabkin, University of Michigan English Department, and Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania English Department

Invited Presenter (Along with Padmini Srinivasan), "Aspects of Full Text and SGML Session," University of Iowa Libraries Symposium on Building Digital Collections, December 11-12, 1997.

Invited Panelist for Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, UC Riverside, April 12- 14, 1996.

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Invited Panelist for New Langton Arts Conference on Cyber-Narrative, New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco, November 4-5, 1992

Invited speaker, 1991 Eaton Conference, "Food of the Gods." April 19-21.

Invited University Seminar speaker, along with Kate Hayles and David Porush (RPI), seminar on postmodernism at DePauw University, April 5-7, 1990.

Invited speaker, Fiction 2000 Conference, University of Leeds, June 28-July 1, 1989

Invited Paper, "Solos, Solitons, Info, and Invasion in Science Fiction Film," Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, UC Riverside, April 15-17, 1988.

Invited speaker, 1988 Award Conference at the University of Kansas. The conference topic was "Science Fiction as Art: After Cyberpunk."

Invited speaker, 1985 Campbell Award Conference at the Univ. of Kansas. The conference topic was: "Science Fiction Film: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

"Watch the Sky," 30 minute IPTV videotape shown as part of main program, Science Fiction Research Association 1984 Convention.

Review Essays

“Reading the Red Planet: Crossley’s Imagining Mars and Hendrix/Slusser/Rabkin’sVisions of Mars.” Science Fiction Studies. #117 = Volume 39, Part 2 (July 2012), 313-326

What I Didn’t See and Other Stories. Karen Joy Fowler. Easthampton, MA. Small Beer Press. For Online Magazine: LA Review of Books. http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/9539411003/grand- undertakings 29 August 2011

“A Cultural History of a Hybrid Genre.” Review of Science Fiction, by Roger Luckhurst (Polity Press, 2005). Science Fiction Studies 98( March 2006), 161-173. “A Secret Too Good to Keep” (Review Essay of Thomas Berger’s Best Friends. Simon & Schuster, 2003 and an overview of his career) in Book World, The World & I: The Magazine for Lifelong Learners, October 2003. 203-213. Review of Parrinder, Patrick, ed. Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. In Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, spring 2003. “Two Primo Takes on Pomo's Pathological and Technological Sublimes” (Review of Mark Dery’s The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink. Grove Press (212 614-7850), 1999 and of David E. Nye’s Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. Columbia UP (800 944 8648), 1997. Science-Fiction Studies, 28(July 2000). 14

"Dazzle and Disappointment in the BFI Modern Classics" (Review of Sean French's The Terminator, Anne Bilson's The Thing, and Scott Bukatman's Blade Runner in the British Film Institute's Modern Classic series). Science-Fiction Studies, 25(July 1998), 361-370. "Flickers in the Darkness: Sarah Canary and Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand," American Book Review, April/May 1992, 10-11. Slam. Lewis Shiner. Iowa Review, Fall 1990, 155-161. Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction. Karl Kroeber. Comparative Literature Studies, Fall 1989 "Genres in Collision: Phillip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and Science Fiction Music Theater," New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1988 "Moralist in Mirrorshades: Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net, New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1989 "On Evan Connell," (Review of Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, and Saint Augustine's Pigeon) in Iowa Review, Winter 1982, 148-154. The Pursuit of Crime by Dennis Porter and The Literature of Terror by David Punter. Philological Quarterly, Summer 1982.

Film and Book Reviews

Mock Up on MU (DVD). Craig Baldwin. Jounal of Science Fiction Film and Television. 4:2(Autumn 2011): 151-153.

Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction. Daniel Punday. Modern Fiction Studies 57:4(Winter 2011): 779-782.

Science Fiction Cinema. Christine Cornea. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 31:1(March 2011):144-147.

Matters of Gravity. Scott Bukatman. Science Fiction Studies 93 (July 2004). Zeitgeist: A Novel of Metamorphosis. Bruce Sterling. Artbyte Online Magazine (November 2000) Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture. Cynthia Erb. Science-Fiction Studies (Spring 1999) Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees. (film) David Blair. American Book Review Fall 1994. Feminist Fabulation. Marleen Barr. American Book Review. Fall 1993. In Memoriam to Identity. Kathy Acker. American Book Review October/November 1990, p. 7. Predator 2 (film) Cinefantastique, June 1991 Hardware (film) Cinefantastique, April 1991 Aurora Encounter (film). In Cinefantastique, July 1986. Lifeforce (film). In Cinefantastique, November/December 1985. The Totem. David Morrell. In Fantasy Newsletter, Sept 82. "David Morrell's The Totem: The Link is Control." Reprinted in Shadowings: The Reader's Guide to Horror Fiction 1981-82." Edited by Douglas E. Winter. 15

Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: The Literary Portraiture of Gertrude Stein. Wendy Steiner. In Philological Quarterly, Winter 1980.

Interviews

David Blair, WAX, Hypertext, and the Internet," 30 minute live interview/discussion on "Late Night," Australian Public Radio, 5 June 1994 "David Blair," an interview conducted in November 1992 along with Larry McCaffery and Scott Bukatman. (In press in McCaffery's untitled next collection of interviews) "Bruce Sterling," an interview conducted in June 1988 along with Larry McCaffery. Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers. Urbana: Illinois, 1990, 211-232.

Conference Participation and Papers Delivered (please ask if you need information on papers delivered before 2001)

Attendee, Harry Ransom Center Flair Symposium: Visions of the Future, The Tenth Biennial Flair Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, Nov 1-Nov 3, 2012.

New Chair Workshop participant, ADE Summer Seminar Midwest, June 2004 and ADE East June 2004. Session Organizer: Teaching Nonfiction Writing, ADE Summer Seminar Midwest, June 2004. Panelist and Session Leader, Communicating Science and Technology Conference, University of Iowa, Jan 17, 2003 "Technological Contours of Electronic Science Fiction," paper delivered at Science Fiction Special Session, 2001 MLA, Dec 30, 2001. Co-leader, Theory and Science Fiction Plenary Session, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2001

Consulting:

Editorial consulting for American College Testing 1980-

Consulting/Expert Witness for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, 1998 (Movie Intellectual Property case that did not go to trial)

Consulting/Expert Witness for Loeb & Loeb, 2004 (Movie Intellectual Property Case that did not go to trial)