LMC Well Represented at ICFA (Fantastic Empires) in Orlando

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 24, 2014

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The purpose of IAFA is to promote and recognize achievement in the study of the fantastic, mainly through the organization and management of an annual academic conference, the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA).

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Current LMC professors include Jay Telotte, Carol Senf, and Kathleen Ann Goonan.

Telotte presented a paper, “The Empire’s New Robots,” in a panel on Cinematic Robots.

Senf chaired a panel on British Babes: Bronte, Rossetti, and Waters and presented a paper, “The Lair of the White Worm and Women’s Place in Empire” in a panel on Stoke® Up.

SF writer and visiting professor Goonan read from her recent work and participated in a panel, The Question Isn’t Whether Writing Can Be Taught—Can Talent Be Taught?

Also delivering papers were the following former Brittain Fellows:

  • Jason Embry (Georgia Gwinnett College), “Steampunk: A Case for the Evolution on Empire(ical) Studies”
  • Susan George (University of California, Merced), “Drivin’ Down the Highway: Supernatural, U.S. Car Culture, and the Masculinity of Dean Winchester”
  • Ben Robertson (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Empires of Disbelief”

 

 

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

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fantastic, imperialism, science fiction, science fiction author
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  • Created By: Carol Senf
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  • Created On: Mar 24, 2014 - 5:32am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 11:16pm