Sarah Herbe has a recently minted doctorate, and teaches at the University of Salzburg. I am lucky to work and teach in a department with a strong research focus on the fantastic (the Department of English and American Studies, University of Salzburg). When I ask students about their reading habits, even in introductory classes to [...]

I’d like to offer some further thoughts inspired by F. Brett Cox’s recent post. The bit from his essay that seems to be generating the most comment is: The New Wave still freaks people out. Whenever I teach Samuel R. Delany’s “Aye, and Gomorrah,” the students are almost always genuinely unsettled. They never know what [...]