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Sherryl Vint

Assistant Professor
PhD Alberta

Areas of Specialization:

Sherryl Vint joins us from a tenure-track position at St. Francis Xavier University. In her recent book she explores the connection between human subjectivity and embodiment, situating the science fiction texts she analyses within technoscience debates on the ethics of genetic and other body modification. She is currently working on a book focused on the intersections of animal studies research, technoscientific uses of animals, and cultural representations of animals, using examples drawn from science fiction texts. Sherryl Vint is co-editor of two works under contract with Routledge, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2008) and Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009). In addition she is beginning work on the construction of masculinity in American culture.

Selected recent publications:

Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, and Science Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

"Species and Species Being: Alienated Subjectivity and the Commodification of Animals." Red Planets: Marxists on Science Fiction and Fantasy. Edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville. Pluto Press. (forthcoming 2008)

With Mark Bould. "Fantastically Fucked Up Masculinity: Anorexic Subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist." Neo-Noir. Edited by Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre and Greg Tuck. Wallflower. (forthcoming 2008)

"The New Backlash: Popular Culture's 'Marriage' with Feminism, or Love Is All You Need." Journal of Popular Film and Television 2007.

With Mark Bould. "Of Neural Nets and Brains in Vats: Model Subjects in Galatea 2.2 and Plus." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 30.1 (March 2007).

"Only By Experience: Embodiment and the Slave Narrative Tradition." Science Fiction Studies. Special Issue on Afrofuturism. 34.1 (March 2007).

"Androids or Sheep? Speciesism and Species Being in Dick's Novel." Mosaic 40.1 (March 2007).

"Animals and Animality on the Island of Moreau." Science Fiction, Gender and Species. Yearbook in English Studies 17.2. Edited by David Seed. University of Liverpool Press 2006.

"Joanna Russ's The Two of Them in The Third Wave Feminist Age." On Joanna Russ. Edited by Farah Mendlesohn. Wesleyan UP. 2006

With Mark Bould. "All that Melts into Air is Solid: Rematerializing Capital in Cyberpunk Cinema." Socialism and Democracy 42 (2006): 217-243.

With Mark Bould. "Learning from the Little Engines that Couldn't: Transported by Gernsbeck, Wells and Latour." Science Fiction Studies 33.1 (March 2006):129-148.

"Ken MacLeod's Use of History." Foundation 96 (March 2006):68-93.