A few years ago, my good friend and colleague Rachel Bowser and I put out a call for papers for an edited collection on steampunk. Today, we are pleased to say that Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures will be published this fall by University of Minnesota Press. In fact, you can order it now. And … Continue reading Announcing Like Clockwork
By way of addressing what we see as a gap in the edited collection that Rachel Bowser and I announced last year, we are soliciting abstracts for essays that consider in one way or another representations of the city in steampunk. The term “city” should be understood widely to signify large and small urban spaces … Continue reading Life Ain’t Pretty in the Steampunk City: A Call for Abstracts
A few years ago, my colleague Rachel Bowser and I co-edited a special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on the subject of steampunk. As I'm guessing you already know, steampunk is a movement fascinated by the vagaries of time as well as technology. So perhaps that's why we find ourselves--two years later--going back to this particular imagined future. … Continue reading Join our Band of Merry Air Pirates: Call for Abstracts on Steampunk
I'm very pleased to announce that after more than two and a half years of work (i.e., more time than my daughter has been alive), the special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on steampunk that I co-edited with my great friend Rachel Bowser (who is frustratingly not present online). We're exceptionally proud of the articles that … Continue reading Like a Geyser, Our Steampunk Journal Issue Gushes Forth