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Gerry

Gerry Canavan

Website: http://gerrycanavan.blogspot.com

Ph.D. Candidate in Literature

Duke University

Brief Bio

I'm currently a James B. Duke Fellow in the Program in Literature at Duke University, where I research science fiction and modernity. My dissertation centers around the political uses of futurity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, film, and culture, including figurations of the Internet as a proto-Utopian space for free discourse and identity construction. I also have an MFA in fiction writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and sometimes make use of it. I blog almost every day at gerrycanavan.blogspot.com and Twitter @gerryblog.

Full bio

I am also currently co-editing a special issue of _Polygraph_ called "Ecology and Ideology" and a special issue of _American Literature_ on science fiction, fantasy, and myth, as well as co-organizing a graduate student conference at Duke devoted to "Cultures of Recession."

http://www.duke.edu/web/polygraph/cfp22.html
http://www.duke.edu/~gc24/americanliterature.html
http://www.duke.edu/~gc24/culturesofrecession.html

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