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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
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2020 World Fantasy Award-winning, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and open-access journal published by The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. ISSN: 2342-2009.
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In 2024, he presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association on “Theorizing Forbidden Planet as a Science Fiction Adaptation of Shakespeare.” His current research interest is studying how speculative fiction creators incorporate historical figures from scientific revolutions into their works.
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Noah Slowik (he/him) is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a second-year English PhD student at the University of Delaware. He has previously reviewed Sarah Annes Brown’s Shakespeare and Science Fiction for Fafnir (vol. 10, no 1).
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
He also serves as Director of the Center for Climate Literacy, coordinating international efforts to establish universal climate literacy education as a foundation for ushering in an ecological civilization.
August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Marek Oziewicz is Professor of Literacy Education and Department Chair of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. A scholar of comparative literature, Dr. Oziewicz holds the Marguerite Henry Professorship of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
His first monograph, Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man, was published by Lexington Books in 2021. He is currently co-editing a new book, Manhood in 21st-century Science Fiction Television, which will be published by Bloomsbury in early 2025.
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Michael Pitts is director of media studies at the University of New York in Prague. He specializes in American literature at the intersection of science fiction, utopian studies & gender.
July 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Her next monograph, Negotiating Motherhood and Maternity in American Fantasy Fiction (Edinburgh University Press), will analyze texts published by a range of American identities.
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Sideways in 3 Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fictions (Liverpool University Press, 2019), a collection co-edited with Glyn Morgan, was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Non-Fiction Award.
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Palmer-Patel's first monograph, The Shape of Fantasy (Routledge, 2020), investigates the narrative structures of epic fantasy and was shortlisted twice for the Mythopoeic Non-Fiction Award.
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Charul “Chuckie” Palmer-Patel serves as a trustee for the Science Fiction Foundation charity group and is on the editorial board of Gold SF, a fiction imprint of Goldsmiths Press that publishes intersectional science fiction.
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Koistinen is the former chair of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and a former editor-in-chief of Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.
July 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Koistinen works as University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute. Koistinen’s research interests include speculative fiction, creative writing and art writing, artistic research, feminist posthumanities, ecocriticism, and ecological/feminist/artist pedagogy.
July 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Carol Franko is associate professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches fantasy and science fiction whenever she can.

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May 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Sabina Fazli is a postdoc in the collaborative research center Human Differentiation at Mainz University, Germany. She completed her PhD in Victorian Literature, and she has taught and published on speculative fiction. Her current research focuses on magazine studies, periodical studies, and affect.
May 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM