Regarding getting a masters or PhD in speculative fiction, I found
the following interestig items while searching Dissertation Abstracts
this morning.
SCIENCE AND FICTION IN THE WORK OF ABE KOBO done at Stanford University,
TROUBLING WORLDS: THE TRANSFORMATION AND PERSISTENCE OF VIOLENCE IN
CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST UTOPIAN NARRATIVES (covering such authors as LeGuin,
Russ, Butler, MZBradley, Tepper, and Pat Califia) at UNC Chapel Hill,
THE COMMONPLACE WITHIN THE FANTASTIC: TERRY BISSON'S ART IN THE DIVERSIFIED
SCIENCE FICTION GENRE at Middle Tennessee State University,
WAKING INTO HISTORY: FORMS OF THE POSTMODERN HISTORICAL NOVEL (Conrad,
Faulkner, Pynchon, Dick, LeGuin, Rushdie, Morrison, Garcia Marquez, among
others) at the University of Miami,
THE FANTASTIC, THE UNCANNY, AND THE MARVELOUS: ASPECTS OF THE UNREAL IN
THREE CANADIAN NOVELS (MARGARET ATWOOD, TIMOTHY FINDLEY, ROBERT KROETSCH)
at the University of Manitoba,
and
THE DYSTOPIAN CITY IN BRITISH AND UNITED STATES SCIENCE FICTION, 1960-1975:
URBAN CHRONOTOPES AS MODELS OF HISTORICAL CLOSURE (THOMAS M. DISCH, JOHN
BRUNNER, PHILIP K. DICK, J. G. BALLARD, SAMUEL R. DELANY) at McGill
University,
among many others. These were all within the last ten years, mostly in the
last five.
-Hilary
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