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Amy H. Sturgis
I’m a Ph.D. who focuses on the intellectual history of speculative fiction. I’m currently researching, writing, teaching, and podcasting about Science Fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, the Gothic, and Dark Academia. Bookish, fannish, and eldritch.
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Now in paperback!
I'm delighted to share that both of my co-edited academic anthologies with Vernon Press are now available in hardback, ebook, and (new!) paperback format: STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER and STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. More information is here.
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Good mail day! New Palgrave Macmillan publications related to my current research/book project.
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Thesis Theater: Laurel Stevens, "An Awareness of Debts: Dark Academia and its Source-Texts"
Congratulations to Laurel M. Stevens! It’s been a true joy to be Laurel’s M.A. thesis director.
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New Dark Academia Presentation
I am very happy to report that I will be presenting my paper "Missing Students and Their Fictional Afterlives: True Crime, Crime Fiction, and Dark Academia" at the Guilty Pleasures: Examining Crime in Popular Culture conference (May 2-3, 2024) sponsored by the Popular Culture Research Network. This talk is related to my current work-in-progress book project. I’m looking forward to it!
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"Looking Back on Genre History"
My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on the new episode of the StarShipSofa podcast. I discuss the concept of the timeslip.
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Hugo Eligibility Post
Nominations are open for the 2024 Hugo Awards. Several works with which I'm involved are eligible, so here is my Hugos 2024 post.
Eligible for Best Related Work (both published by Vernon Press in 2023):
Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier (edited by Amy H. Sturgis and Emily Strand for Vernon Press, 2023)
Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away (edited by Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis for Vernon Press, 2023)
Also, StarShipSofa is eligible for Best Fancast!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all who have read and/or listened!
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Join Me for A Haunting on the Hill
This year I've been delighted to join SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online with Signum University. This week I'm wrapping up teaching my first module, which is on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It’s been so much fun!
Currently my March module candidate is up for vote for until 2/1. It's on A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand. I hope you'll join me!
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More information on my offered modules is here.
#signum university#elizabeth hand#a haunting on the hill#gothic#horror#haunted houses#Youtube#shirley jackson#the haunting of hill house
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Current mood: listening to Shirley Jackson’s daughter sing the murder ballad “The Grattan Murders,” which appears in Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House, as her mother sang it to her.
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This promises to be a terrific online event! Thursday, January 11, 2024.
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Trek Talks is coming! It's practically here! Join me for Trek Talks 3, an annual Star Trek telethon in support of The Hollywood Food Coalition on January 13, 2024.
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FYI, here’s a new call for papers for the academic anthology Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek. 🖖
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It was a delight to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our new anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with Josh of Trash Compactor: A Star Wars Podcast.
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Happy New Year, everyone!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson said it all in "Ring Out, Wild Bells":
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace...
Read the complete poem here.
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Meet The Last Man!
In March 2024, I will be offering the module "Meet The Last Man" with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online via Signum University.
Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I'm really looking forward to exploring it with students!
Here is more information.
#Mary Shelley#The Last Man#Science Fiction#Apocalyptic Fiction#Pandemic Fiction#Political science fiction#SFF#Signum University#Amy H. Sturgis#Youtube#Gothic#Online Education#Continuing Education#Virtual Education
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Happy Birthday, Shirley Jackson!
On this day in 1916, the great Shirley Jackson was born.
Here’s a little piece I wrote earlier this year about teaching Jackson’s remarkable novel Hangsaman. It’s posted at “Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century,” an online resource investigating the past and future landscapes of Shirley Jackson studies.
I’m looking forward to teaching The Haunting of Hill House in January!
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Two Visits to Hill House!
I'll be starting 2024 with two visits to Hill House! I'm joining SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) online with Signum University. My first modules include The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (January) and its authorized sequel, A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand (February).
Registration is now open for January's module. Voting is now open for February's module. Here are more details. I hope to see you in SPACE!
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#Signum University#Amy H. Sturgis#Shirley Jackson#Elizabeth Hand#The Haunting of Hill House#A Haunting on the Hill#Gothic#Horror#Haunted Houses#Online Education#Youtube
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Dice in Mind Interview
It was a delight to join Emily Strand, with whom I co-edited the anthologies Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away (both 2023 from Vernon Press), to talk Star Trek and Star Wars with the Dice in Mind podcast. Dice in Mind is a podcast hosted by Brad Browne and Jason Kaufman that explores the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, and creativity through interviews with leading creatives.
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