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Sarah Canfield

Associate Professor of English

Employed Since:

2007

Educational History:

PhD, English, Indiana University; MA, English, Temple University; BA, English Indiana University

Fields of Expertise:

Writing, Victorian Literature, Science Fiction, History and Philosophy of Science

Personal Highlights:

2nd Place on Jeopardy! April 2011.

Professional Highlights:

Recent Presentations “Isolating the Gendered Subject: A Comparison of Female and Male Robinsonades in Gravity and The Martian.” SFRA. Milwaukee, WI | 2018 “Seven of Nine’s Problematic Feminism.” ICFA. Orlanda, FL | 2018 “Octavia Butler’s Wellsian Imagination.” ICFA. Orlanda, FL | 2015 “Breaking the Mold: Self-Creation in Shaw’s Philanderer and Pygmalion.” NEMLA. Harrisburg, PA | 2014

Publications “‘There’s a Woman in There If You’d Take the Time to Look’: Seven of Nine’s Problematic Feminism.” It’s Not The Destination, But The Journey: Essays Exploring Star Trek: Voyager. McFarland, forthcoming 2019. Review of Wells Meets Deleuze: The Scientific Romances Reconsidered, by Michael Starr, SFRA Review, forthcoming.

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