Marleen S. Barr

Marleen Barr teaches communication and media studies at Fordham University, New York City. She is notable for her significant contributions to science fiction studies, for which she won a Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association in 1997.^[1] Her primary contributions have been her foundational work in the field of feminist science fiction criticism;^[2] her 1981 anthology Future Females: A Critical Anthology "served as an introduction and eye-opener to the field of Feminist Science Fiction."^[3]

Selected bibliography

Original criticism

• Creating Room For A Singularity of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange’s “We, Robots" (2013)
• Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies (2000)
• Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (1993)
• Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (1992)
• Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory (1987)

Edited works of criticism

• Future Females: A Critical Anthology (1981) (editor)
• Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism (2000) (editor)
• Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (2003) (editor)
• Reading Science Fiction (2009) (co-editor, with James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria)

Fiction

• Husband Hunting in Africa (short story, 2016)
• Rudolph The Red Nosed Squirrel or Miracle on 82nd Street: Fiction/Quotation/Exposition (2015)
• Thanksgiving Brunch Mitzvah or, the End of the World for Women (2015)
• The Pen Is Mightier than the Coop Board's Borg Queen: A SF/Memoir (2014)
• Oy It's The Cosmetics, Stupid: Or How Estee Lauder Changed the Post 9/11 World (2013)
• The Birther Committee Inception: An Unreal Manhattan Real Estate Story (2013)
• To The Moon, Said Newt Or Informing New Yorkers That Outer Space Contains Space (2012)
• Oy Pioneer! (novel; 2003)

Awards

• Fulbright lectureship, University of Dortmund, Germany (2006)^[4]
• Distinguished Scholar grant, Japan (2000)
• Fulbright lectureship, University of Tübingen, Germany (1989–1990)
• Fulbright lectureship to the University of Düsseldorf, Germany (1983–84)
• Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism (1997) Science Fiction Research Association

References

1. The Locus Index to SF Awards, Science Fiction Research Association Awards.
2. See, e.g., C. Jason Smith & Ximena Gallardo C., "Oy Science Fiction", Reconstruction v.5, n.4 (Fall 2005) ("Marleen S. Barr is a pioneer of feminist science fiction criticism"); Inez van der Spek, Alien Plots, p.42; David Seed, A Companion to Science Fiction, p.52; etc.
3. Lorie Sauble-Otto, "Review of Barr, Future Females", Rocky Mountain Review (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association), v.57, n.2 (Fall 2003).
4. "Science Fiction Scholar Receives Fulbright," Oct. 10, 2006, Fordham In Focus: Faculty and Research.

External links

• Marleen Barr at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Interview with Marleen S. Barr. Original publication: Smith, C. Jason and Ximena Gallardo C. "Oy Science Fiction: On Genre, Criticism, and Alien Love: An Interview with Marleen S. Barr." Reconstruction: Studies In Contemporary Culture. Vol. 5 No. 4 Fall 2005