Lisa Yaszek

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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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Locus Science Fiction Foundation Award Finalist, 2021
Class of 1934 Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2020
Ivan Allen College Dean’s Distinguished Research Award, 2019
Locus Science Fiction Foundation Award Finalist, 2019
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies, 2017
Class of 1940 Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2016
Ivan Allen College Curricular Innovation Grant, 2015
HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education, 2014
Science Fiction Research Association Clareson Award for Distinguished Service, 2014
Science Fiction Research Association Mary Kay Bray Writing Award, 2014
Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Award for Research, Teaching and Service, 2013
Class of 1934 Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2012
Ivan Allen College Research Grant, 2012
Women, Science and Technology Research Partnership Grant, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018
Science Fiction Research Association Research Grant, 2011
National Science Foundation Science and Society Research Grant, 2007
Science Fiction Research Association Pioneer Writing Award, 2005
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend, 2004
Class of ’69 Teaching Fellowship, 2002-2003
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2000

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