- assistant professor
- school of literature, communication and culture
- lisa.yaszek@lcc.gatech.edu
research interests
include literature and technoculture, science fiction, and gender studies.
book projects
- Galactic Suburbia (in progress, overview)
- The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative. New York: Routledge, 2002. (review)
publications
- "An Afrofuturist Reading of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man," Rethinking History
- "I'll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy," electronic book review (link)
- "Science Studies of the Third Kind: Teaching Science Fiction in the Science Studies Classroom," (with Doug Davis), Reading Science Fiction
- "The Women History Doesn't See." Extrapolation 2005 Pioneer Award - Best New Science Fiction Scholarship
- "'A grim fantasy': Remaking American History in Octavia Butler's Kindred," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- more publications...
teaching
- literary and cultural postmodernism (syllabus)
- science fiction (syllabus)
- cybernetic fictions (syllabus)
- introduction to gender studies (syllabus)
- gender studies in the disciplines (syllabus)
- more classes...
projects
- The Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection (link)
- The Science Fiction Lab (link)
- Monstrous Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Fantastic in the Arts at Georgia Tech (link)
- more projects...
links
- Boing Boing: A Dictionary of Wonderful Things (link)
- The Adventures of Josie True: A Video Game for Girls (link)
- Bill Hallman Designs (link)
- Epicurious (link)
- more links...