Books
- Rhetoric & Arguments: A Primer in Ethical Reasoning from Kendall Hunt (1st Edition, 2020; co-written w/ Dr. Prabin Lama)
- Speculative Fiction 2014 from The Book Smugglers (May 2015; co-edited w/ Renay W)
- Survival By Storytelling from YoungWritersOnline.net (Nov. 2009; co-edited w/ Niyousha Bastani)
Articles and Essays
Academic & Peer Reviewed
- “The Interstellar Initiative: Space and Identity in Expatriate Caribbean Science Fiction” in Essays on the Global Transformation of Science Fiction edited by Gary Westfahl (forthcoming from McFarland)
- “Out of Control: Disrupting Technological Mastery in Michael Moorcock’s The Warlord of the Air and K.W. Jeter’s Infernal Devices” in Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, & Futures edited by Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall and published by the University of Minnesota Press (2016; co-written with Dr. Joseph Weakland)
- “The Multiplicities of Empire and the Libidinal Economy in Makoto Shinkai’s The Place Promised in Our Early Days” in Science Fiction Film and Television from Liverpool University Press (Volume 7, Issue 3, Autumn 2014)
- “Political Allegory: Receptions and their Implications in V and District 9″ in Crimethink: Politics and Speculative Fiction edited by Megan Arkenberg (independent; proceeds went to Doctors Without Borders)(2010)
Public Scholarship
- “Survey of International Science Fiction Fans About the Hugo Awards and the Puppies Controversy” in File770 (2017; co-written w/ Dr. Aaron Beveridge)
- “The Taxonomy of Genre: Science Fiction as Supergenre” in Speculative Fiction 2014 published by The Book Smugglers (2015; reprint)
- “Diversity is Not a Selfie” in Speculative Fiction 2013 published by The Book Smugglers (2014; reprint)
Professional Reviews
- On Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence by Suzanne Scott in Journal of Popular Culture 53.4 (2020)
- On The Dark Phoenix (2019) in SFRA Review No. 330 (Fall 2019)
- On Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction by Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 26.1 (2015)
- On Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman in Strange Horizons (Nov. 2015)
- On How to Live on Other Planets edited by Joanne Merriam in Strange Horizons (April 2015)
- “Retrospectively, Delany” on Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science in Extrapolation 55.2 (2014)
- On Sound of My Voice (2011) in Science Fiction Film and Television 7.1 (2014)
- On Bricks by Leon Jenner in Strange Horizons (Nov. 2011)
- On Tron: Legacy (2010) in Strange Horizons (Jan. 2011)
Invited Talks and Guest Lectures
- “What Twitter Data Can Tell Us About U.S. Elections: Political Meaning in the Age of Endless Data.” 2019 Honors Council Lecture Series / Bemidji State University. Bemidji, MN. April 4, 2019.
- “All Your Humanity Are Belong to Us: Network Culture and Contagions in SF (From Forster’s Machine to the Wachowski’s Cloud Atlas).” University of Florida Science Fiction and Fantasy Symposium. April 11, 2013.
- “Ernest Hemingway and the Key West.” Class Lecture for GEA 2270: “Geography of Florida.” University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. Summer 2015 and 2016.
Academic Presentations
- “Canonicity in the Rainbow Age of the ‘Net: Unstable Canons, Diversification, and Afrofuturist/Africanfuturist Writers.” 44th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Afrofuturism). Orlando, FL. March 13-16, 2023.
- “The Trials of Intersectional Allyship: Utopian Communities, Otherness, and Terror in Cadwell Turnbull’s No Gods, No Monsters (2021).” 43rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Fantastic Communities). Orlando, FL. March 16-19, 2022.
- “Postcolonial Thought, Decolonizing the Anthropocene, and Tobias S. Buckell’s Climate Change Novels.” 42nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Climate Change and the Anthropocene). Orlando, FL. March 18-21, 2021.
- “Genre and Public Rhetoric: Science Fiction, Social Justice, and the Hugo Awards.” 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Politics and Conflict). Orlando, FL. March 14-17, 2019.
- “The Search for Liberative Space: Mary Seacole, Stephen Cobham, and the Conflicted Utopias of the Caribbean.” 88th South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference (Utopia/Dystopia: Whose Paradise Is It?). Jacksonville, FL. Nov. 4-6, 2016.
- Moderator. “Marginal Voices: Latin America and Spain and Science Fiction.” International and Minority Science Fiction in a Global World. University of Florida. Oct. 1, 2014.
- “‘Our Lives Are Not Our Own’: Sonmi 451’s Subversive Otherness and the Multivalent Threat of Infection in Cloud Atlas (2012).” 34th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. March 21-25, 2013.
- “Becoming the Dark Lord: Colonial-Cultural Rupture and Constructing Antihistorical Identity in Kage Baker’s The House of the Stag.” 33rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. March 22-25, 2012.
- “Escaping Apartheid: The Speculative Renaissance in South Africa (or, Rebuilding the Speculative World Over Apartheid’s Carcass).” 11th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference. University of Florida. Oct. 28-29, 2011.
- “Repetitive History and the Formation of Identity During Interstellar Crisis in Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Buckell’s Ragamuffin (or ‘The Interstellar Initiative’s Broken Dream’).” Precarious Subjects: Borders, Interstices, and Instabilities in Literature and Culture. Graduate Student Conference, University of Alabama in Huntsville. April 1-2, 2011.
- “The Interstellar Initiative: Space and Identity in Expatriate Caribbean Science Fiction. ” The 2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference on Global Science Fiction. University of California, Riverside. Feb. 11-13, 2011.
- “Weirding the Genre: From New Weird to Scifi Strange, and Beyond. ” What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English – the First Decade. University of Lincoln. July 9-12, 2010.
- “Otherism: The Dissection of Humanity and the Negation of the Human in Battlestar Galactica.” 2010 National Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference. St. Louis, MO. March 31-April 3, 2010.
- “Habitually Us: Battlestar Galactica, the “Android Personality,” and Human Preservation. ” 31st Annual Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. Feb. 10-13, 2010.
- “Fabricated Histories and Non-Nationalist Identities.” 9th Annual English Graduate Organization Conference (“Home/sickness”). University of Florida. Nov. 12-13, 2009.
Grants Funded
- Scholarly Contributor. Project: “MassMine: Collecting and Archiving Big Data for Social Media Humanities Research.” National Endowment for the Humanities. May 2015. Amount requested: $60,000. Proposal can be found here.