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Modern Science Fiction (ENG 339)

Term: 2024-2025 School Year Fall Semester

Faculty

Kirstin James-Dunn

Hello: I am Dr. Kirstin James-Dunn. Welcome!

I check my email from 9AM-5PM, M-F, Workdays. I do not check email at the weekends, or during holidays.

Email: Dunn_K@Heritage.edu

I hold Online Office Hours ONLY at the following time:

2:30-3:30 P.M. PST Mondays and Wednesdays (unless scheduled as a campus holiday)

Here is the Online Office Link: https://heritage.zoom.us/j/3499442728  

Online Proficiency Review:

Online Readiness Self-Assessment (jotform.com)

Stay safe, be well, and I’ll see you soon!

Education 

  • PhD Museology (Specialization Spatial Rhetoric, Representation, and Research Methods), University of Leicester, United Kingdom 
  • Granada Certification in Documentary Film Direction and Production, University of Manchester, United Kingdom 
  • MA Museology (Heritage Studies), University of Manchester, United Kingdom 
  • MA (ABT) Professional Development in Teaching English, Heritage University, Toppenish WA. USA
  • M.Ed. CHRD: Adult Education, Heritage University
  • B.A. Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College

Research and Teaching History

  • The British Library, London
  • The British Museum, London
  • The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University
  • The Royal Anthropological Institute, London
  • Symposia, Cambridge University
  • University of Leicester
  • Granada Television
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, London
  • University of Manchester
  • American Indigenous Research Association
  • Heritage University, Toppenish (and Online)
  • The Evergreen State College, Olympia
  • Central Washington University, Ellensburg

Description

This course examines the development of the science fiction genre in the 20th and 21st centuries. After touching on the Pulp Era and the Golden Age, we will look at the explosion of SF since the 1960s, considering the theoretical, scientific, cultural, and social underpinnings of movements such as the New Wave, Cyberpunk, New Space Opera, New Weird, and more. Readings include a range of classic short fiction as well as a series of classic and recent novels. Cross-listed as ENG 539