mass-market fantasy

occult systems

marxism and s/f

my research in speculative fiction addresses the history of mass-market fantasy novels, alternative sexualities in fantasy literature, and flows of capital within supernatural worlds

my dissertation, queer spellings, analyzed the relationship between spell-casting, drag culture, and melancholy in fantasy texts

queer break-ins: erotic service in fantasy literature, in are you being served?, forthcoming from routledge, 2010

delany's queer markets: nevèrÿon and the texture of capital; forthcoming, science fiction studies, november 2009

queering the fantastic, ed. (with robin anne reid), in-progress

investigating farscape, i.b. tauris, 2007

blood relations: chosen families in buffy the vampire slayer and angel, mcfarland, 2005

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