JOHN RIEDER
John Rieder has been teaching at UH Manoa’s English Department since 1980, the year he received his PhD from Yale University. For the first 20 years of his career he was mainly a specialist in English Romanticism, publishing a book on William Wordsworth, Wordsworth’s Counterrevolutionary Turn (University of Delaware Press, 1997) and numerous essays on the poetry of Percy Shelley. From around 2000 on his research agenda has focused on science fiction. His book on early science fiction, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2008. In 2011 he received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer Award for his essay “On Defining Science Fiction, Or Not: Genre Theory, Science Fiction, and History.” He currently serves on the editorial board of Extrapolation, the oldest journal in the field of science fiction studies.
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The Impossible Future of the Futures Market
A special issue of “New Centennial Review” tackles the metastases of finance capitalism.
The Warmth of “New Suns”
John Rieder reviews "New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color," edited by Nisi Shawl.
An Image of Africa From the Sky: Jules Verne’s “Five Weeks in a Balloon”
Sanguine as Verne is about the progress of science, he is no mere apologist for European colonialism or industrial capitalism.
Secret Histories
IN THE FALL AND WINTER OF 2009-2010, a small exhibition called The Art of Steampunk at the Oxford Museum of the