Research and Writing
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Gary
K. Wolfe: In addition to serving as Chair of Roosevelt’s Bachelor of General Studies Program—and before that as Dean of University College for eight years—I have long been involved in literary scholarship and criticism, with a particular focus on the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Here’s a brief outline of some of the highlights of this aspect of my work. (For a more complete list of publications, click here.) I. Books The Known and the
Unknown: The Iconography of Science
Fiction.
David Lindsay. Starmont House, 1982. [A study of a fantasy author.] Science Fiction Dialogues
(editor). Academy Critical Terms for Science
Fiction and Fantasy. Harlan
Ellison: The Edge of Forever (with
Ellen Weil). Soundings:
Reviews 1992-1996, Beccon Press, 2005 [A collection drawn from the first five
years of my monthly review column for Locus magazine]
II. Awards Pilgrim Award, 1987. Presented by the Science Fiction Research Association for lifetime achievements in science fiction scholarship. (For more information about the SFRA, see the Science Fiction Research Association Official Website) Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1998. Presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for lifetime achievements in scholarship of the fantastic. (For more information about the organization, see the IAFA Web Page.) Eaton Award, 1981.
Presented by the Lloyd J. Eaton Conference for the year’s outstanding
work of science fiction scholarship (for The Known and the Unknown). British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Non-Fiction, 2006 (for Soundings) Hugo Award Nomination, Best Related Book. World
Science Fiction Convention, 2006 (for Soundings) World Fantasy Award, for
reviews and criticism. World Fantasy
Convention, 2007. III. Scholarly Essays Over the years, I’ve contributed many essays to academic journals, reference works, encyclopedias, and magazines—more than two hundred at last count—and among the more recent are an essay titled “Malebolge, or the Ordnance of Genre,” which appeared in fall 2002 in a special issue of the literary journal Conjunctions edited by Peter Straub, and essays on authors Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and Ray Bradbury for Supernatural Fiction Writers, edited by Richard Bleiler for Scribners. A chapter titled “Science Fiction and Its Editors” appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and a long annotated bibliography of science fiction scholarship appears in the new edition of Neil Barron’s standard reference work Anatomy of Wonder (Libraries Unlimited, 2005).
I currently serve on the
editorial advisory boards of the following journals: Science Fiction Studies,
Paradoxa (see Paradoxa:
"Paraliterature and the Mandate of Paradoxa"/Editorial Board),
and the Journal of the
Fantastic in the Arts, for which I edited special issues on the
Holocaust, Peter Beagle, and
With authors Jane Yolen and Brian Aldiss and artist
For the past fourteen years, I’ve been a contributing editor and senior book review columnist for Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field, which is the major professional newsmagazine for writers, editors, and readers in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. (See Locus Online.) Some of these columns have been reprinted in slightly different form in Science-Fiction Studies, and in fall 2000 translations of some of these reviews began appearing quarterly in the French Galaxies. VI. External Study Materials The Roosevelt University External Studies Program, which permits students to study independently at home, consists of study guides or “modules” which usually count as one credit hour of work, either individually or as part of a three- or six-semester hour course. I’ve written a number of these modules, especially for the external version of the BGS Humanities Seminar.
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Elements
of Research (with Carol T. Williams).
IV.
Harlan
Ellison.
