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Queer Lit“Trans Future Fiction” with Kit SchusterHow can we imagine a trans future? Kit Schuster joins me to talk about how transgression in fiction can help us think new futures. We speak about trans, nonbinary and gendernonconforming characters, norms and settings in science fiction, but Kit also stresses that their definition of trans is not limited to gender. Instead, Kit invites us to have our queer minds blown in all kinds of ways by future fictions but also by Gothic and horror texts. Apologies for the audio quality! Sometimes, a podcaster needs to improvise…If you enjoyed this episode, why not follow @officialkitschuster and @qu...
2024-01-0939 min
Creative Language TechnologiesThe Felt Experience of Reading: From Realist Fiction to Immersive Technologies (Part II)This is episode #19 of the podcast and it’s Thursday, the 9th of June, 2022. I interviewed Dr. Elaine Auyoung, Donald V. Hawkins Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences. She is the author of “When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind”, recently released in paperback from Oxford University Press. In addition to the project on “Unselfing” described on her faculty webpage, Elaine is also working on a book project on “Becoming Sensitive”, which uses cognitive research on expertise and perceptual learning to show how traini...
2022-06-1033 minCreative Language TechnologiesThe Felt Experience of Reading: From Realist Fiction to Immersive Technologies (Part I)This is episode #18 of the podcast and it’s Thursday, the 26th of May, 2022. Today, I interviewed Dr. Elaine Auyoung, Donald V. Hawkins Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences. She is the author of “When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind”, recently released in paperback from Oxford University Press. In addition to the project on “Unselfing” described on her faculty webpage, Elaine is also working on a book project on “Becoming Sensitive,” which uses cognitive research on expertise and perceptual learning to show how train...
2022-05-2736 min
How to ReadOne-sided relationships (with Elaine Auyoung)A one-sided relationship is a bad relationship, right? Not necessarily, says Elaine Auyoung. She’s interestedClick here for more about the episode...One-sided relationships (with Elaine Auyoung)
2021-11-0516 min