Andrea Austin

Teaching courses in science fiction, narrative gaming, and popular culture, as well as 18th century and first-year courses in fiction.

Research and publications in science fiction/cyberpunk, history of science and technology, narrative video games and history of gaming, film studies, aesthetics (body, art, practice), women writers and feminist theory.

• Visiting Scholar, University of Edinburgh

Supervisions in literature and/or film for: science fiction and theories of the posthuman; game studies and game theory; women writers, feminist theory, feminist film theory; popular culture; aesthetics (including cyborg augmentation, tattoo culture, body politics, cosmetics history and industry, and aesthetics theory); gender and technology.

• “Memory Games: Towards an Understanding of Narrative and Interactivity,” forthcoming in Memory in Popular Culture, Heather Urbanski, ed., McFarland.
• “The Living Dead in William Gibson’s _Neuromancer_.” Generation Zombie: Essays on Postmodern Culture and the Living Dead, S. Boluk and W. Lenz, eds. McFarland, 2011.
• “Roland Emmerich’s 2012: A Simple Truth,” 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse, Joseph Gelfer ed., Equinox, 2010. 240pp
• “The Afterlife of Ada: Ada Byron, Artificial Intelligence, and the Language of Generation.” Electrifying Experiments: Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination. Amanda Caleb, ed., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
• “Details: Hitchcock Reads Rebecca.” Empowerment Versus Oppression: 21st Century Views of Romance Novels. Sally Goade, ed. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, March 2007.