SF Professors

[HazeNight]

Hello all,

First time posting here, so please forgive any mistakes.

I wanted to know if anybody here had any suggestions for PhD programs with science fiction professors? I'm aware of UC-Riverside. I'm merely asking if anybody knows of any more?

I know this topic was asked a while ago, and I struggled between necro-ing the thread or starting a new one. The answer I chose is obvious.

 

Edit: Link to previous thread below.

 

Edited April 6, 2016 by HazeNight

[hello_kitty]

You might want to check out University of Florida..Terry Harpold has sci fi interests..Guess there are few others as well; you can check out the faculty profiles...

[haltheincandescent]

Adding to the list from the last thread: Monique Morgan as well as Prof. Kilgore at Indiana (she mostly works on Victorian Sci. Fi., though), and, I know of someone at Harvard working on a sci fi project w/ Stephen Burt, even though sci fi's not his "main" research focus.

[HazeNight]

Thanks both for the recommendations! I realize I can look at faculty profiles; however, just picking a specific university to peruse is headache inducing enough not to mention having to search through nearly every personal profile. I've been doing my research into universities, but I wanted to see if anybody here knew anything to help reduce the time I spend staring at university English departments profile pages, pushing past the bitterness and hoping beyond all hope that the word "science" will appear eventually. 

Thanks!

[haltheincandescent]

5 minutes ago, HazeNight said:

Thanks both for the recommendations! I realize I can look at faculty profiles; however, just picking a specific university to peruse is headache inducing enough not to mention having to search through nearly every personal profile. I've been doing my research into universities, but I wanted to see if anybody here knew anything to help reduce the time I spend staring at university English departments profile pages, pushing past the bitterness and hoping beyond all hope that the word "science" will appear eventually. 

Yeah--I totally understand this. Some sites are really great, and have features built in to sort profiles by research interests (yay, UChicago), or list the highlights right on the main page, but others (Columbia.......looking at you) are a massive pain, with having to click on each profile link (they have a big faculty!). So yeah, always easier to ask those who have experience, first.  The other way to go about this, of course, is to see where authors whose research articles you like are working (though, from experience, I also know that that can sometimes be problematic with things like sci fi that don't have as much scholarly prestige [yet!], meaning sometimes great scholars are at un[der]-funded programs). But, If any more profs come to mind later, I'll shoot a pm--I'm sure I'm forgetting some.