Lisa Yaszek is Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. She is particularly interested in issues of gender, race, and science and technology in science fiction across media as well as the recovery of lost voices in science fiction history and the discovery of new voices from around the globe. Yaszek's books include The Self-Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Narrative (Routledge 2002/2014); Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Ohio State, 2008); Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (Wesleyan 2016); and Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (OSUP Fall 2020). Her ideas about science fiction as the premiere story form of modernity have been featured in The Washington Post, Food and Wine Magazine, and USA Today and on the AMC miniseries, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction. A past president of the Science Fiction Research Association, Yaszek currently serves as an editor for the Library of America and as a juror for the John W. Campbell and Eugie Foster Science Fiction Awards.
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James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
Guest starring as Professor of Science Fiction Studies - Georgia Tech
(6 episodes)
- Episode 1x06: Time Travel (May 28, 2018)
- Episode 1x05: Intelligent Machines (May 28, 2018)
- Episode 1x04: Dark Futures (May 21, 2018)
- Episode 1x03: Monsters (May 14, 2018)
- Episode 1x02: Outer Space (May 7, 2018)
- Episode 1x01: Alien Life (Apr 30, 2018)