2023 Spring Recess Updates

I wanted to make the most of this year’s Spring Recess. Below are a few things that I accomplished during this late semester respite: a computer storage upgrade, installing Mac OS X Leopard on QEMU, finding Star Wars action figures on eBay, beginning a generative AI and pedagogy bibliography, and spending time with Y. Upgraded …

Distinguished Alumni Award from Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College and School of Literature, Media, and Communication

On Mar. 29, 2023, Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College held its 2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards Ceremony. The Ivan Allen College’s six academic schools and its three ROTC branches give these awards to “celebrate excellence in the College community.” I was honored to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Literature, Media, and Communication …

My Chapter on “Blindness in Science Fiction” is Now Out in Sharon Packer’s Lenses on Blindness Collection

I’m very happy to announce that Dr. Sharon Packer’s edited collection Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience is now out from McFarland! It includes a chapter that I wrote back in Summer 2020 titled, “Blindness in Science Fiction: From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Star Trek’s La Forge–And Much …

7th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on the Archive and SF, Dec. 6, 2022

The Seventh Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on the Archive and SF was held on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022 as a Zoom Webinar. You can read the full program here. I started organizing these symposia with my colleagues at City Tech after we received the original 160 box donation that became the City Tech …