Science Fiction Studies

Stephen Dougherty is a professor of American Literature at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway. He has published articles and essays on diverse topics, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British literature, psychoanalytic theory, cognitive science, and science fiction. His work has appeared in Configurations, Cultural Critique, Diacritics, Mosaic, Psycho-analytic Quarterly, Science Fiction Studies, and elsewhere.

Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke's forthcoming book is Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution. An independent scholar with a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University, his research focuses on the impact of postcolonial theory on the evolution of African speculative fiction. He has also published a collection of his short stories, Haunted Grave and Other Stories (2016).

Megan E. Fourqurean is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral thesis analyzes representations of gender nonconformity in contemporary Nigerian literature through the figure of Mami Wata. Her research interests include postcolonial literature, ecocriticism, religious studies, and speculative fiction. Her published work has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and The Journal of the African Literature Association.

Peter J. Maurits is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on African literature and genre, and he is particularly interested in the way in which form changes when it moves through time and space. His work has appeared in Interventions and African Identies. His first book is The Mozambican Modern Ghost Story (2022) and he is currently writing a book about African science and speculative fiction.

Gibson Ncube is a senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University. He has published widely in the fields of comparative literature, gender and queer studies, and cultural studies. He co-convened the Queer African Studies Association (2020-2022) and was the 2021 Mary Kingsley Zochonis Distinguished Lecturer (African Studies Association UK). He currently sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Literary Studies, The Canadian Journal of African Studies, and The Nordic Journal of African Studies.

Keren Omry is a senior lecturer and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. Her interests include alternate histories, speculative fiction, and music and literature, on which she has taught and published extensively. She has written on Israeli science fiction and is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction (2023) and of Palgrave's SCIENCE FICTION: A NEW CANON book series (2021-2023). She is former president of the SFRA and current SF Literature Division Head of IAFA.

E Mariah Spencer is an interdisciplinary scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Iowa. She currently serves as the assistant director of undergraduate studies and coordinator of educator licensure in English at Northern Illinois University. Her research interests include female authorship, early modern science, science fiction and weird fiction, educational reform, and inclusive pedagogy.

Marta Mboka Tveit is a PhD candidate with the CoFutures research group at the University of Oslo. Her work has generally centered on (de)coloniality and identity in relation to climate change and nature-culture, with a cosmopolitan approach to both Nordic and (Sub-Saharan) African contemporary texts and discourses. Her PhD research took an ecocritical look at African and Norwegian speculative fiction.

Ruth S. Wenske is a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at the Ben-Gurian University of the Negev. Her main research area is contemporary Anglophone African literature, with a focus on the realist novel and the embedding of oral formations within it.

Joanna Woods is coordinator of the African Literatures Collaborative Research Group at the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS). She has a PhD from Stockholm University specializing in the function of contemporary short southern African sf. She has written think pieces in popular cultural forums such as Africa is a Country and the Swedish literary magazine Karavan, and most recently in such journals as Wasafiri.