Vampires

Vampires are strange and horrifying creatures
They are always hungry
They do not work
They feed on the bodies of others

For these reasons vampires have been used to criticize real life monsters – aristocrats, capitalists, colonizers

But I think that vampires can do more than that

I think vampires can teach us how hungry we are for a better world

An article on Bram Stoker’s *Dracula* in *Utopian Studies* journal
A talk on Francis Ford Coppola’s *Bram Stoker’s Dracula* on *Utopian Horizons* podcast
A conversation with Sophie Lewis on vampires and surrogates
An essay on Octavia E. Butler’s *Fledgling* in *Science Fiction Research Association Review*

Feminist Science Fiction

Science fiction is full of astounding stories

However, most of these stories stop short of asking serious questions about what gender might mean to an alien, to a robot, to the people of the future, or indeed, to us

Fortunately, there are visionaries willing to tackle these questions and show us how strange gender, sex and reproduction are right now

And, how much stranger and more wonderful they could be

A review of *The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler* in *Modern Language Review*
A book chapter on the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin co-written with Eli Lee and Francis Gene-Rowe
An essay on Alice Sheldon’s creation of James Tiptree Jr. (Winner of the Peter Nicholls’ Essay Prize 2020)
An essay on revolutionary dreaming in the writing of Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler
A review of Sophie Lewis’ *Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family* in *Vector*

Science Fiction

Science fiction shows us that what we have been taught to think of as natural is in fact socially constructed

My interest in the genre extends beyond that branch of science fiction produced by feminists

It is not just categories like ‘man’ and woman’ which the arrival of aliens forces us to rethink

Science fiction creators ask

What is ‘a human’?
Where is the border of ‘the world’?
Who are we talking about when we talk about ‘our future’?