Area chair
Leigha McReynolds (University of Maryland, College Park)
Science Fiction and Fantasy welcomes papers/presentations in any critical, theoretical, or (inter)disciplinary approach to any topic related to SF/F: art; literature; radio; film; television; video, role-playing, and multi-player online games. Though not an exhaustive list, potential presenters may wish to consider the following:
- Gender and Sexuality
- Race and Otherness
- Class and Hierarchies
- Utopia/Dystopia
- Mythology and Quest Narratives
- Creatures and Aliens
- Science and Magic
- Reading Other “Worlds”
- Language and Rhetoric
- Genre—Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Dark Fantasy, etc.
- Fans and Fandom/Community Building
- Textual Analysis
- Sociological or Psychological Readings
- Archival Research/History
- Technology—Textual and Literal
- Online Identity Construction