On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Tanya Wood wrote:
> Regarding Helen Merrick's extremely interesting post, ....
> I'm impressed by your project- the history of feminist science
> fiction- and even more impressed that you are doing it in a department of
> history. A bit different from the Tudors and the causes of the Mexican
> revolution stuff that I did at university.Things must be hot in Australia!
>
> Tanya
>
I'm impressed by Helen too: she gave one of the best papers at the
Liverpool University conference last year. But it is not only in Australia
that one can do science fiction in a History department. The Reading
University interdisciplinary MA in Science Fiction is run from the History
Dept (by me); Farah Mendlesohn, also on this list, is in History, in York.
And both of us have had science fiction dissertations done under our
supervision. And, if it comes to that, some of the best sf scholars in the
USA are historians: what about Bruce Franklin and Albert Berger?
But don't get me on to the subject of why science fiction ought to be
taken out of the hands of literary critics and back into those of
cultural historians, or I shall be here all day!
Edward James
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Professor Edward James, Dept of History, Faculty of Letters and Social
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