Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research

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He also serves as Director of the Center for Climate Literacy, coordinating international efforts to establish universal climate literacy education as a foundation for ushering in an ecological civilization.

Marek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Department Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. A scholar of comparative literature, Dr. Oziewicz holds the Marguerite Henry Professorship of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens.

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☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz.

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His first monograph, Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man, was published by Lexington Books in 2021. He is currently co-editing a new book, Manhood in 21st-century Science Fiction Television, which will be published by Bloomsbury in early 2025.

Michael Pitts is director of media studies at the University of New York in Prague. He specializes in American literature at the intersection of science fiction, utopian studies & gender.

Michael Pitts reviews Stephen C. Tobin’s (@kiptobin.bsky.social) Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature, which illuminates the centrality and significance of the screen in 1990s–2010s Mexican cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk fiction.

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Her next monograph, Negotiating Motherhood and Maternity in American Fantasy Fiction (Edinburgh University Press), will analyze texts published by a range of American identities.

Sideways in 3 Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019), a collection co-edited with Glyn Morgan, was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Non-Fiction Award.

Palmer-Patel's first monograph, The Shape of Fantasy (Routledge, 2020), investigates the narrative structures of epic fantasy and was shortlisted twice for the Mythopoeic Non-Fiction Award.

Charul “Chuckie” Palmer-Patel serves as a trustee for the Science Fiction Foundation charity group and is on the editorial board of Gold SF, a fiction imprint of Goldsmiths Press that publishes intersectional science fiction.

C. Palmer-Patel reviews Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces (eds. Bryan J. Carr & Meta G. Carstarphen) @ohiostatepress.bsky.social, a volume exploring the publication histories, character arcs & media battles of Marvel’s famous female heroes.

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Koistinen is the former chair of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and a former editor-in-chief of Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.

Koistinen works as University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute. Koistinen’s research interests include speculative fiction, creative writing and art writing, artistic research, feminist posthumanities, ecocriticism, and ecological/feminist/artist pedagogy.

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen reviews Pablo Gómez's Science Fiction Cinema in the 21st Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns @routledgebooks.bsky.social, which offers a timely analysis of sf cinema's significance for interrogating transnational concerns.

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Carol Franko is associate professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches fantasy and science fiction whenever she can.

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Carol Franko reviews Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey, which points to a coupling of enchantment and loss that shapes Tolkien’s art. @ksupress.bsky.social

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Sabina Fazli is a postdoc in the collaborative research center Human Differentiation at Mainz University, Germany. She completed her PhD in Victorian Literature, and she has taught and published on speculative fiction. Her current research focuses on magazine studies, periodical studies, and affect.

Sabina Fazli reviews Mike Ashley’s The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020 @livunipress.bsky.social, an encyclopedic history of science fiction periodicals.

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Dr. Lakshminath Kagyung works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India. His areas of interest are Postcolonial studies, African Literature, and South Asian Literature.

Her MPhil dissertation focused on Dalit women’s livelihood, and her current research focuses on re-examination of aspects of Black representation in contemporary narratives. Her areas of interest are Feminism, Postcolonialism, Dalit Literature, and Black Science Fiction.

Ananya Buragohain is a full-time PhD Research Scholar in the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India, where she is pursuing her research on contemporary Black Science Fictions.

Ananya Buragohain and Lakshminath Kagyung review The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction @lunapress.bsky.social , ed. by Francesca T. Barbini - a collection of five essays tracing the emergence and development of African SFF.

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Ananya Buragohain is a full-time PhD Research Scholar in the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam, India, where she is pursuing her research on contemporary Black Science Fictions.

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He has worked at many different libraries and received both his MLS and his MA in History from the University of Maryland – College Park in 1999. His professional interests include science fiction, fan studies, and the intersection of libraries and social justice.

Jeremy Brett is a librarian and archivist at Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University, where he is the Curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world.