 Instructor of EnglishOffice: Denison 245 Telephone: 303-492-7608 E-mail: Benjamin.J.Robertson@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
American literature, culture, and politics; media and technology studies; critical theory; science fiction; intellectual property law
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007
M.A., Montclair State University, 2000
B.A., Pace University, 1996
Publications
Essays
“'Some matching strangeness': Politics, Paradox, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred,” Science Fiction Studies, forthcoming
“Mashing-up the Past, Critiquing the Present, Wrecking the Future: The Kleptones’ A Night at the Hip-Hopera,” Leonardo Electronic Almanac, forthcoming
“Free as in Free Culture: A Response to Francis Raven.” electronic book review (March 2006)
“On Moral Science: The Problematic Politics of Stuart Kauffman’s Order.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 12.2 (Spring 2004): 287 – 312
Selected honors and awards
Marion L. Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, 2006-2008
Editorial Positions
Managing Editor, electronic book review
Current projects
Corruption and Sameness: Democracy and the Novel in Late- and Post-Cold War America (book)
Material Science Fictions: The Internet of Things and the Politics of the Future (book)