About

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Jason W. Ellis is an Associate Professor of English at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY (City Tech) where he coordinates the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. He co-organized the first seven City Tech Science Fiction Symposia that explore science fiction as an interdisciplinary and pedagogically powerful genre, and he is a past Director of the Professional and Technical Writing Program. He wrote Yet Another Science Fiction Textbook (YASFT) OER and created/maintains the Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Pedagogy Bibliography and Resource List.

Formerly, he was a Marion L. Brittain Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he taught English Composition, Technical Communication, and Science Fiction, and directed the Writing and Communication Program’s Digital Pedagogy Research and Development Lab (DevLab).

He holds a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University, M.A. in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool, and B.S. in Science, Technology, and Culture from Georgia Tech.

He co-edited The Postnational Fantasy: Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011). His writing has appeared in scholarly and popular publications, including The Wellsian, Configurations, Science Fiction Studies, The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, and Locus.

His research focuses on the intersection of digital technology and the human brain in 20^th/21^st-century American literature and popular culture.

He enjoys building with LEGO, working on computers, playing video games (especially from the 1980s and 1990s), and experimenting with local generative AI on his custom workstation.

He can be found here and other places online:

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