Jason W. Ellis
Department of English
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44240
404-401-0342
jellis5 [at] kent.edu
dynamicsubspace [at] gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English, Kent State University, Dissertation Defense, April 2012.
M.A. in Science Fiction Studies, University of Liverpool, December 2007.
B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2006.
HONORS AND AWARDS
R. D. Mullen Fellowship, University of California-Riverside, 2011-2012.
David B. Smith Fellowship, Kent State University, 2011.
Kenneth R. Pringle Fellowship, Kent State University, 2011-2012.
Nomination, Writing Program Outstanding Teaching Award, Kent State University, 2011.
Kent State University Travel Grant, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Mary Kay Bray Award for Best Writing, Science Fiction Research Association, 2007.
James Dean Young Writing Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
Presidential Undergraduate Research Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.
DISSERTATION
“Brains, Minds, and Computers in Literary and Science Fiction Neuronarratives”: This project employs cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to demonstrate the wider importance of science fiction to literary studies and the sciences. With chapters on Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, and Richard Powers, I describe science fiction as articulating a new science of mind and conclude by evaluating the contemporary co-evolution of humans and new media technologies. (Dir. Donald M. Hassler).
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Postnational Fantasy: Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics, and Science Fiction. Eds. Masood Ashraf Raja, Jason W. Ellis, and Swaralipi Nandi. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011.
Articles
“Decoding the Origins of H.G. Wells’s ‘The Land Ironclads’ and Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton’s Tank.” The Wellsian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society 33 (2010): 42-57.
Book Chapters
“Engineering a Cosmopolitan Future: Race, Nation, and World of Warcraft.” The Postnational Fantasy. Eds. Raja, Ellis, and Nandi. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. 156-173.
“Revealing Critical Theory’s Real Life Potential to Our Students, the Digital Nomads.” Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading, and Teaching the Genre. Eds. Karen Hellekson et. al. Jefferson: McFarland, 2010. 37-50. Refereed.
Notes
“Cyborgs.” Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Farnham: Ashgate, Forthcoming.
“Bicentennial Man.” When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations. Ed. Peter Wright. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, Forthcoming.
“SFRA 2011.” Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. 608 (September 2011): 10.
“2010 SFRA Conference.” Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field. 595 (August 2010): 10, 55.
Reviews
I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick. Laurence A. Rickels. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota Press, 2010. SFRA Review 296 (Spring 2011): 12-14.
TRON: Legacy. Dir. Joseph Kosinski. Perf. Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner, and Olivia Wilde. Walt Disney Pictures. 2010. SFRA Review 296 (Spring 2011): 23-26.
Understanding Philip K. Dick. Eric Carl Link. The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. 22.1 (Winter 2010): 114-116.
Puttering About in a Small Land. Philip K. Dick. New York: Tor, 2009. SFRA Review. 291 (Winter 2010): 17-18.
What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction. Paul Kincaid. Essex: Beccon, 2008. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 104 (Autumn 2009): 126-128.
Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. Sonja Fritzsche. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. The German Quarterly 82:2 (2009): 269-270.
Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. SFRA Review. 289 (Summer 2009): 24-25.
Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader. Eds. Hilde Corneliussen and Jill W. Rettberg. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. SFRA Review. 288 (Spring 2009): 8-9.
Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier. Eds. Rhonda Wilcox and Tanya Cochran. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008. SFRA Review. 288 (Spring 2009): 9-10.
WALL-E. Dir. Andrew Stanton. Perf. Ben Burtt and Elissa Knight. Walt Disney Pictures. 2008. SFRA Review. 285 (Summer 2008): 35-36.
Playing the Universe: Games and Gaming in Science Fiction. Eds. David Mead and Paweł Frelik. Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska, 2007. SFRA Review. 284 (Spring 2008): 11-12.
Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future. Mike Resnick. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2007. SFRA Review. 282 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2007): 9-10.
Brasyl. Ian McDonald. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2007. SFRA Review. 281 (July/August/Sept 2007): 36-37.
Starship Troopers. Robert A. Heinlein. New York: Ace, 2006. SFRA Review. 280 (Apr/May/June 2007): 17-19.
The Android’s Dream. John Scalzi. New York: Tor, 2006. SFRA Review. 279 (Jan/Feb/Mar 2007): 23.
Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: St. Martin’s, 2007. SFRA Review. 278 (Oct/Nov/Dec 2006): 12-14.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Papers Presented
“A Cognitive Approach to Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Research Association, Lublin, Poland, July 2011.
“James Cameron’s Avatar and the Machine in the Garden: Reading Moving Narratives and Practices of Production.” Science Fiction Research Association, Carefree, AZ, June 2010.
“Decoding the Origins of the Tank and ‘The Land Ironclads’: Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton and H. G. Wells.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Atlanta, November 2009.
“Engineering a Cosmpolitan Future: Kant, Equiano, and World of Warcraft.” Science Fiction Research Association, Atlanta, June 2009.
“Time Enough for Twitter: Postmodern Science Fiction and Online Personas.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, March 2009.
“Transsexual Technologies: Re-iterating Cultural Production of Gender.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Charlotte, November 2008.
“Digital Nomads: Revealing Critical Theory’s Real Life Potential to Our Students.” Science Fiction Research Association, Lawrence, KS, July 2008.
“Michael Bay’s Tranformers, the Global War on Terror, and the New Post-9/11 Science Fiction Narrative.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, March 2008.
“Subversive Subjectivity in Battlestar Galactica.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Portland, ME, November 2007.
“Subversion of the Self by the Enemy Other in Battlestar Galactica.” Science Fiction Research Association, Kansas City, MO, July 2007.
“Projecting Victorians into the Future With H.G. Wells’ ‘A Story of the Days to Come’ and Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age.” Science Fiction and the Canon Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, March 2007.
“Spanning the Cold War Through Readings About Autonomous Technologies.” Science Fiction Research Association, White Plains, NY, June 2006.
“Monstrous Robots: Dualism in Robots That Masquerade as Humans.” Monstrous Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Fantastic in the Arts at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, March/April 2005.
Panel Member
“Immigration, Alienation, and Arizona SB 1070.” Science Fiction Research Association, Carefree, AZ, June 2010.
Science Fiction Author Roundtable, “Engineering the Future and Southern Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy,” Science Fiction Research Association, Atlanta, June 2009.
“Engineering the Future of SFRA,” Science Fiction Research Association, Atlanta, June 2009.
“Graduate Student Programs and Special Collections.” International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, March 2009.
“Playing the Universe: Reading and Teaching Science Fiction with Video Games.” Science Fiction Research Association, Lawrence, KS, July 2008.
Service
Vice President, Science Fiction Research Association, 2011-2012.
Layout Editor, Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, 2009-2011.
Publicity Director, Science Fiction Research Association, 2008-2010.
Programming Director, Science Fiction Research Association 40th Annual International Conference, Atlanta, GA, 11-14 June 2009.
Reader for the Zarava Award, Writing Center, Department of English, Kent State University, October 2007.
Webmaster, STaC Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-2006.
DVD Producer, “Science Fiction Lab Video Presentation for Georgia Tech’s 2006 Girls’ Night Out,” Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, June 2006.
DVD Producer, “Inside the Poem DVD,” Poetry at Tech and Poetry Out Loud, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2005.
DVD Producer, “Memorial DVD on Professor Emeritus and Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech Founder Bud Foote,” Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, March 2005.
Programming Organizer and Video Archivist, Monstrous Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Fantastic in the Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, March 31-April 1, 2005.
TEACHING AND SERVICE, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Coordinator, Office of Digital Composition, Department of English. Fall 2011.
College Writing I (Theme: The Brain and Writing), 1 Section. Spring 2011.
College Writing II (Theme: Cyborgs). 2 Sections. Fall 2010.
College Writing I (Theme: Space Exploration). 6 Sections. Fall 2008-Spring 2010.
AUTHORED WEBSITE
DynamicSubspace.net. Science Fiction Criticism and Technology Blog. 2006-Present.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Science Fiction Research Association
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