Science fiction & history
I am interested in how science fiction, particularly in television and film, intersects with history. My work focuses on environmental issues as well as museums and knowledge-making in science fiction.
Green Letters 23 (2019): 54-67 Abstract: This article analyses how four science fiction stories frame whale endangerment and salvation as a problem of ecosystem service loss: Arthur C. Clarke’s The Deep Range (1957), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the Doctor Who episode ‘The Beast Below’ (2010), and T.J. Bass’s The Godwhale(1974). It uses the four…
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In Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games, ed. Matthew Jones and Joan Ormrod, 118–131. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. Science fiction as a genre has often invoked museum settings as windows into the past, as places of memories. How does that function when a science fiction…
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Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 3, no. 2 (2012):[online] This article analyzes the television science-fiction show Doctor Who as a cultural forum within the context of British eco-activism of the 1970s. It examines four serials which aired during the 1970s during the first wave of eco-activism in the…
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In Star Trek and History, ed. N. Reagin. New York: Wiley & Sons, 2013, 242-259. During the last decades of the 20th century, the environmentalist movement came of age. As it developed into a mass movement, it gradually changed its arguments and strategies for persuading the public that endangered species…
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