Stephen Darren Dougherty

Literature and science, world and comparative literature, literature and pedagogy, science fiction and cosmology.

American and British Literature and Culture parts 1 and 2 (EN-160, -162)

African American Literature (EN-218)

The Fantastic Imagination (EN-452)

U.S. Literature and the 21st Century Migration Novel (EN-437)

Historical and Alternate Historical Fiction (EN-450)

Science Fiction and Technoculture (EN-427)

Academic interests include: science fiction, media studies, psychoanalytic theory, science studies, immigrant fiction and migrant studies, phenomenology, globalization studies

Courses taught at the Bachelor level include: British and U.S. Literature surveys (EN-103 and EN-104), 19th Century U.S. Fiction (EN-110), British Contemporary Novel (EN-134), U.S. and British Culture/History (EN-144)

Courses taught at the Masters level include: Literary Theory (EN-410), Techno-Culture and Science Fiction (EN-427), Contemporary U.S. Immigrant Fiction (EN-437)

Translation and Intercultural Communication

· "Messages from the Stars: 2001: A Space Odyssey and His Master's Voice".  Science Fiction Studies  48.2 (2021): 306-331. 

· “Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, and ‘Repositioning.”  Science Fiction Studies  46.1 (2019): 39-62.

· “The Life In Death of Psychoanalysis.”  Mosaic 52.1 (2019): 69-85. 

· ”Vagabonds, The Death Ship and Denationalization.”  Papers on Language & Literature 53.4 (Fall 2017): 323-346. 

· “The Machine in the Garden in the 21st Century.”  American Studies in Scandinavia 49.1 (2017): 83-99. 

· “Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear’s Biological Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 44.1 (2017): 104-121. 

· “Adam Roberts’s Alien Invasion.”  Science Fiction Studies 41.3 (2014): 597-616.  

· The Dangerous Rays of the Future: Democracy, Media, Science Fiction.”  Science Fiction Studies 40.3 (2013): 510-528. 

· “Embodiment and Technicity in Geoff Ryman’s Air.” Science Fiction  Studies 39.1 (2012): 40-59. 

· “Postdeconstruction and the Rhetorics of Touch.”  The Journal for Cultural  Research.  15.1 (January 2011):75-92. 

· “Autism and Modular Minds in The Speed of Dark.” Mosaic 43.4 (December 2010): 35-50. 

· “Computing the Unconscious.” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 79.1 (Winter 2010): 171-201. 

· “On Genetic Programs and Feedback Networks.” Configurations 12 (2004) [published 2005]: 263-285. 

· “Culture in the Disk Drive: Computationalism, Memetics, and the Rise of Posthumanism.”  Diacritics 31.4 (Winter 2001) [published Spring 2004]: 85-102. 

·"The Biopolitics of the Killer Virus Novel."  Cultural Critique 48  (Spring 2001): 1-29.