Gerry Canavan

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First name: 
Gerry
Last name: 
Canavan
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I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate 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 Anglo-American culture, including online science fiction fandom and 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.wordpress.com and Twitter @gerrycanavan.

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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.

http://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/marxism-and-new-media-confe...

Website: 
http://www.gerrycanavan.com

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Marxism and New Media Conference

Marxism and New Media Conference

January 20 2012 to January 21 2012
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JANUARY 20 & 21, 2012 KEYNOTES: ALEX GALLOWAY (NYU) and RICARDO DOMINGUEZ (UCSD) DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 30, 2011 CONTACT: marxismandnewmedia@gmail.com http://literature.duke.edu/marxism-and-new-media-conference Nation, Chris Lehmann has recently argued that the Internet is less the...
Durham, NC
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Call for Papers/Projects: Marxism and New Media Conference

Call for Papers/Projects: Marxism and New Media Conference

October 30 2011
Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR PROJECTS: MARXISM AND NEW MEDIA http://literature.duke.edu/marxism-and-new-media-conference DUKE UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN LITERATURE (DURHAM, NC) JANUARY 20 & 21, 2012 KEYNOTES: ALEX GALLOWAY (NYU) and RICARDO DOMINGUEZ (UCSD) DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: OCTOBER 30, 2011...
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United States
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