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Nolan Belk is currently a PhD candidate at UNC-Greensboro where he is completing a dissertation on the rhetoric of feminist science fiction. Additionally, Nolan is lead instructor of English at Wilkes Community College where he teaches a range of classes including Science Fiction Literature and Human Values and Meaning. A rabid fan of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, Nolan is learning from Joss Whedon and others how the Hero Myth can work for everyone.
Programming for Nolan Belk
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| Fri | 14:00 | (A17) | 1 hr |
Feminist Science Fiction and the Sociological Imagination
Nolan Belk argues that feminists, Samuel Delany, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Ursula Le Guin among them, found SF conducive to challenging conventional frontiers of gender expectations in the 1970s. He discusses how SF was used to challenge the boundaries of contemporary society and produce new ways of knowing the world for readers. |