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English Program
Staff Directory
| Associate Professor Chris Palmer |
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Position: Associate Professor and Head of CACE
Room: HU2 332
Tel: +61 3 9479 2403
Fax: +613 9479 3637
Email: c.palmer@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Hons (Sydney), MA (LaT), B.Phil (Oxford) |
Major research areas:
1. Contemporary Science Fiction, especially
- The SF of Philip K. Dick
- Relations between Contemporary SF and Postmodernity
2. Relations between written texts and filmed adaptations, especially in the case of Shakespeare
Current projects:
- Castaway narratives from Robinson Crusoe to The Wasp Factory
- Contemporary Dystopian Fictions
- China Mieville's Novels
Major teaching areas:
- Contemporary SF; SF as Narrative
- Forms of Narrative
- SF and Postmodernity
- Adaptation theory and practice
Selected publications:
- Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2003.
- '"What Tongue Shall Smooth Thy Name?" Recent films of Romeo and Juliet', The Cambridge Quarterly, 32 no.1, 2003, p.61-76.
- 'Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks' Science-Fiction Studies 26, 1999, p.73-90.
- 'Philip K. Dick and the Nuclear Family' in Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations, ed. Samuel J. Umland, Westport, Conn. Greenwood P, 1995.
- 'Postmodernism and the Birth of the Author in Philip K. Dick's Valis' Science-Fiction Studies 55, vol.18, part 3, reprinted in On Philip K. Dick, SF-TH, Terre Haute and Greencastle, 1992.
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