Terraforming the Imagination: How to Build a Convincing Fictional Universe
By Emma Louise Backe Fantasy and science fiction writers do it all the time—build a world, sometimes an entire universe,…
Anthropology
THE (FAKE) GEEK GIRL PROJECT / 5: A LIST AND A SURVEY
This is the last installment of this series. You may read the foreword to this series, As Always, it Started With…
The Devil in Disguise: Modern Monsters and their Metaphors
By Emma Louise Backe Throughout the past decade or so, we’ve had a resurgence of monsters. Werewolves, vampires and zombies…
Fantasy and the Female Body
By Emma Louise Backe Tamora Pierce has assumed a canonical place in fantasy literature, especially for younger readers. Pierce’s stories…
Scholarly Hipsters, Scholarly Geeks Part 3: The Baker Street Ethnographers
(Part 3 of a series on what it might look like to think of “geek” as a mode in which scholarly…
The Geek Anthropologist 