Lisa Yaszek

Professor of Science Fiction Studies

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CURRENT POSISTION
Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1999
  • M.A. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 1992
  • B.A. English, Magna cum Laude, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, May 1991

SELECT HONORS, AWARDS, AND EXECUTIVE TRAINING

  • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies, 2017
  • Class of 1940 Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2016
  • Ivan Allen College Curricular Innovation Grant, 2015
  • HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education, 2014
  • Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award for Research, Teaching and Service, 2013
  • National Science Foundation Science and Society Research Grant, 2007
  • Science Fiction Research Association Pioneer Award for Scholarship, 2005
  • National Endownment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award, 2004

SELECT BOOKS

  • The Future is Female: Early Classics of Women’s Science Fiction from the Pulp Era to the New Wave. New York: Library of America, in press.
  • Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction. Co-authored and co-edited with Patrick Sharp. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2016.
  • Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008.
  • The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2002. Re-released in paperback and e-book formats, 2014.

SELECT ARTICLES

  • “The Constructed Human: Reimagining Gender in Science Fiction.” Science Fiction: A Journey into the Unknown. Ed. Patrick Gyger. Exhibition Catalog. London: Barbican Center, 2017. 136–42.
  • “Posthumanism and Science Fiction.” Co-authored with Jason Ellis. The Cambridge Companion to Posthumanism. Eds. Bruce C. Clark and Manuella Rossini. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 71-83.
  • “The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness and Magic in Black Science Fiction.” Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction. Ed. Isiah Lavender III. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2014. 15-31.
  • “Narrative, Archive, Database: The Digital Humanities and Science Fiction Scholarship.” Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction 1:1 (Spring 2013): 8-13. (Simultaneously printed in SFRA Review 303 [(Winter 2013): 6-9] by invitation of and special arrangement with the editors of both publications.)
  • “Teaching Golden Age Science Fiction.” Teaching Science Fiction. Eds. Andy Sawyer and Peter Wright. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 103-15.
  • “Cultural History.” The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Eds. Andrew Butler, Mark Bould, Adam Roberts and Sherryl Vint. New York and Oxford: Routledge Press, 2009. 194-203.
  • “Domestic Satire as Social Commentary in Mid-century Women’s Media Landscape SF.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 95 (2005): 29-39.
  • “‘I’ll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy,” Or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?” electronic book review (spring 2005): http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_id=yaszekwp.
  • “The Women History Doesn’t See: Recovering Midcentury Women’s SF as a Literature of Social Critique.” Extrapolation 45.1 (spring 2004): 34-51.

SELECT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

  • Early Classics of Women’s Science Fiction. Awarded $1500 by Georgia Tech’s Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology to support a student research assistant, December 2017.
  • Early Classics of Women’s Science Fiction. Awarded $1500 by Georgia Tech’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program to support a student research assistant, August 2017.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction. Co-PI: Brian Magerko, Georgia Tech. Awarded $3000 by Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College for the Liberal Arts to develop a new cross-disciplinary class with a multimedia research library and a weekly online lecture series, April 2015.
  • Women’s Work in Early Science Fiction. Awarded $1500 by Georgia Tech’s Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology to support a student research assistant, August 2013.
  • Women’s Work in Early Science Fiction. Awarded $20,000 by Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College for
    the Liberal Arts to support activities related to book publication, March 2012.
  • “Representations of Active Nanostructures across Scientific, Popular and Policy Realms of Discourse.” Co-PIs: Richard Barke, Alan Porter and William Ready, Georgia Institute of Technology. Awarded $85,000.00 by the National Science Foundation, September 2007.
  • Galactic Suburbia: Housewife Heroines, Lady Scientists and Midcentury Women’s Science Fiction. Awarded $5000.00 by the National Endowment for the Humanities, May 2004.

SELECT INVITED TALKS AND INTERVIEWS

SELECT COURSES TAUGHT

Full, Associate and Assistant Professor. School of Literature, Media and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology. 2000-present.

  • LMC 8910: Special Problems: Representing Race in Visual Narrative
  • LMC 6215/4813/3202: Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction
  • LMC 4699: Undergraduate Research in the Science Fiction Lab
  • LMC 4100: Senior Seminar on Nanotechnology in Science, Fiction and Public Policy
  • LMC 3833: Science, Technology and Race in Science Fiction
  • LMC 3225: Gender Studies in the Disciplines
  • LMC 3214: Science Fiction
  • LMC 2218: Literary and Cultural Postmodernism

SELECT SERVICE

Professional Contributions

  • Eugie Foster Award for Short Fiction Committee, 2016-present
  • John W. Campbell Award Committee, 2015-present
  • President, Science Fiction Research Association, 2009-10
  • Grant Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2009-10
  • Editor, Extrapolation, 2007-09
  • Advisory Board Member, AboutSF, 2009-present
  • Editorial Board Member, European Journal of American Studies, 2006-present

Campus Contributions: Georgia Tech

  • Associate Chair, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, 2015-present
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, 2009-2015
  • Provost’s Review, Promotion and Tenure Guideline Committee, 2013
  • IAC Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2012-13
  • Institute Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2011-present
  • The Sci Fi Lab Radio Show Faculty Advisor, 2007-present
  • The Science Fiction Research Laboratory Faculty Advisor, 2004-present
  • President’s Undergraduate Research Award Faculty Mentor, 2003-present