Amy H. Sturgis's Blog, page 11

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.

Good mail day! New Palgrave Macmillan publications related to my current research/book project.

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Happy Friday!

Happy Friday, everyone! I just received some great publication news. I will be sharing more information soon! I'm wishing a great weekend to everyone.

Thesis Theater: Laurel Stevens, “An Awareness of Debts: Dark Academia and its Source-Texts”

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.

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!

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. I’m looking forward to it!

“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!

More information on my offered modules is here.

Current mood: listening to Shirley Jackson’s daughter sing the murder ballad “The Grattan Murders,”…

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.