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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

In 2024, he presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association on “Theorizing Forbidden Planet as a Science Fiction Adaptation of Shakespeare.” His current research interest is studying how speculative fiction creators incorporate historical figures from scientific revolutions into their works.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Noah Slowik (he/him) is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a second-year English PhD student at the University of Delaware. He has previously reviewed Sarah Annes Brown’s Shakespeare and Science Fiction for Fafnir (vol. 10, no 1).

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Noah Slowik reviews Ross Clare’s Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity @livunipress.bsky.social, which examines the legacy of classical thought in popular culture by analyzing the use of stories & figures from antiquity in modern SF.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

He also serves as Director of the Center for Climate Literacy, coordinating international efforts to establish universal climate literacy education as a foundation for ushering in an ecological civilization.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

Marek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Department Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. A scholar of comparative literature, Dr. Oziewicz holds the Marguerite Henry Professorship of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Aug 7

In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens.

Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨

☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz.

Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi

Happy reading!

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

His first monograph, Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man, was published by Lexington Books in 2021. He is currently co-editing a new book, Manhood in 21st-century Science Fiction Television, which will be published by Bloomsbury in early 2025.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Michael Pitts is director of media studies at the University of New York in Prague. He specializes in American literature at the intersection of science fiction, utopian studies & gender.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 29

Michael Pitts reviews Stephen C. Tobin’s (@kiptobin.bsky.social) Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature, which illuminates the centrality and significance of the screen in 1990s–2010s Mexican cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk fiction.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Her next monograph, Negotiating Motherhood and Maternity in American Fantasy Fiction (Edinburgh University Press), will analyze texts published by a range of American identities.

Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sideways in 3 Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019), a collection co-edited with Glyn Morgan, was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Non-Fiction Award.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Palmer-Patel's first monograph, The Shape of Fantasy (Routledge, 2020), investigates the narrative structures of epic fantasy and was shortlisted twice for the Mythopoeic Non-Fiction Award.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Charul “Chuckie” Palmer-Patel serves as a trustee for the Science Fiction Foundation charity group and is on the editorial board of Gold SF, a fiction imprint of Goldsmiths Press that publishes intersectional science fiction.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

C. Palmer-Patel reviews Gendered Defenders: Marvel’s Heroines in Transmedia Spaces (eds. Bryan J. Carr & Meta G. Carstarphen) @ohiostatepress.bsky.social, a volume exploring the publication histories, character arcs & media battles of Marvel’s famous female heroes.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 2

Koistinen is the former chair of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and a former editor-in-chief of Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 2

Koistinen works as University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute. Koistinen’s research interests include speculative fiction, creative writing and art writing, artistic research, feminist posthumanities, ecocriticism, and ecological/feminist/artist pedagogy.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · Jul 2

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen reviews Pablo Gómez's Science Fiction Cinema in the 21st Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns @routledgebooks.bsky.social, which offers a timely analysis of sf cinema's significance for interrogating transnational concerns.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · May 21

Carol Franko is associate professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches fantasy and science fiction whenever she can.

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · May 21

Carol Franko reviews Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey, which points to a coupling of enchantment and loss that shapes Tolkien’s art. @ksupress.bsky.social

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · May 12

Sabina Fazli is a postdoc in the collaborative research center Human Differentiation at Mainz University, Germany. She completed her PhD in Victorian Literature, and she has taught and published on speculative fiction. Her current research focuses on magazine studies, periodical studies, and affect.