Marleen Barr teaches communication and media studies at

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, New York City. She is notable for her significant contributions to

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, for which she won a

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from the

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in 1997. Her primary contributions have been her foundational work in the field of

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criticism; her 1981 anthology ''Future Females: A Critical Anthology'' "served as an introduction and eye-opener to the field of Feminist Science Fiction."

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

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and Matthew Candelaria)

Fiction

* ''When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber'' (collection, 2018)
''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)Science Fiction Scholar Receives Fulbright
," Oct. 10, 2006, Fordham In Focus: Faculty and Research. * Distinguished Scholar grant, Japan (2000) * Fulbright lectureship, University of Tübingen, Germany (1989–1990) * Fulbright lectureship to the

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, Germany (1983–84) *

for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism (1997)

References

External links

*
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 1953 births Living people American feminist writers American women novelists American science fiction writers American literary critics Women literary critics American speculative fiction critics American speculative fiction editors Feminist studies scholars Science fiction critics Science fiction academics Fordham University faculty 21st-century American novelists Women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women writers Novelists from New York (state) American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American women academics American women critics {{US-academic-bio-stub