Professor Rieder will give a public lecture on November 27th at 5pm in the Shelby Center for Science, room 301.

After a distinguished career as a Romanticist in which he published the highly influential Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s (U of Delaware, 1997), Professor Rieder turned his scholarly attention to his longtime interest in science fiction. The resulting book, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (Wesleyan, 2009), is universally regarded as the most important, paradigm-altering assessment to emerge from the field in many years.

Rieder quickly followed up the success of the book with a Pioneer Award-winning essay in the field’s most prestigious journal, Science Fiction Studies, on science fiction and genre theory, laying the theoretical groundwork for his most recent and most ambitious monograph Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (Wesleyan, 2017), a work that cements his global reputation as one of the most significant and original SF scholars and genre theorists writing today.

In addition to numerous article publications, he has edited or co-edited three books and two special issues of Extrapolation, one of which introduced “indigenous futurism,” a concept that has inspired a rich sub-field of scholarly analysis. He serves on the editorial board of Science Fiction Studies.