Keynote Speaker: Shelley Streeby

Shelley Streeby is professor of ethnic studies and literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her book Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism was published by the University of California Press in the American Studies Now! Series in 2018. She is also author of Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture (2013) and American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (2002), which received the ASA’s Lora Romero Prize. She is co-editor (with Jesse Alemán) of Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (2007) and, with Ramzi Fawaz and Deborah Whaley, of the forthcoming Keywords for Comics Studies (NYU Press). Since 2010 she has directed the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. She is currently working on a new book, Speculative Archives: Hidden Histories and Ecologies of Science Fiction World-Making.