leah f norris

Leah F. Norris, PhD

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Education

  • PhD, English Literature (2023)
    University of California at Santa Barbara (CA)

  • MA, English Literature (2015)
    University of Colorado at Boulder (CO)

  • BA, Philosophy and Classics (2011)
    Bard College (NY)

About Me

I research transatlantic modernism and feminist science fiction. My central interest is in how experimental literature encodes and enacts social change.

Research Interests

I research transatlantic modernism and feminist science fiction. My central interest is in how experimental literature encodes and enacts social change.

Publications

  • Norris, L. (2022). “The Ambivalence of Memory in Naomi Mitchison’s Speculative Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 49.1.

  • Norris, L. (2022). “Sharing Outer Space: Transcendence and Symbiosis in D.C. Fontana’s Screenwriting for Star Trek.” Science Fiction Film and Television 15.3.

  • Norris, L. (2023). “The Politics of Possibility in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood; Afrofuturist Utopia and American History,” a chapter in Afrofuturisms: Re-imagining Contemporary Blackness in History, Art, Technology, and Culture, ed. ‘BioDun Ogundayo and Tracee Howell, Lexington Books.

  • Norris, L. (2023). “Contagion and Community in Jean Lorrah’s The IDIC Epidemic,” a chapter in Strange Novel Worlds: Star Trek Novels and Fiction Collections in Popular Culture, ed. Caroline-Isabelle Caron, Queen’s University and Kristin Noone, Irvine Valley College, McFarland & Co.