My essay “Drawing the Oankali: Imaging Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s Dawn” is finally out, in print, in Approaches to the Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler (MLA 2019) edited by…
I am headed to Atlanta, Georgia to be a part of the 2018 Octavia E. Butler Literary Society (OEB) Conference, which will be held at Spelman College, February 23-25, 2108. This is the second time…
This winter quarter I am once again teaching Octavia Butler’s Dawn in my WGS 410/510: Speculative and Science Fictions of Color course. Whenever I teach Dawn, I always have my students attempt to draw, render,…