Escape Velocity 2019

Patrick B. Sharp is Professor of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He has written several articles and two monographs on science fiction, including Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture (2007) and Darwinian Feminism... Read More →

Michael Klein is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication and Director of the Cohen Center for the Humanities at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA). He teaches a course about zombies, and uses science fiction literature and film as a means of exploring... Read More →

I teach Humanities, literature, writing, and communication. I work primarily with science fiction and horror, environmental and animal studies, and gender studies. I recently co-edited a book (with Bridgitte Barclay) called Gender and Environment in Science Fiction, and I am currently... Read More →