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Get in touch with the centre.

For more information on the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures or to join a mailing list to find out about events, please email futures@liverpool.ac.uk.

For more information about the Science Fiction collections in the Library’s Special Collections & Archives, and how they can be accessed, please contact scastaff@liverpool.ac.uk.

Directors

Prof. Barry Dainton (Philosophy)
Joanne Fitton (LMG)
Dr Will Slocombe (English)

Full Members

Dr Matthew Bradley (English)
Dr Harald Braun (History)
Dr Becky Davnall (Philosophy)
Dr Tom Dillon (Special Collections and Archives)
Prof. Michael Hauskeller (Philosophy)
Prof. David Seed (English)

Associate Members

Prof. Georgina Endfield (APVC)
Dr Floriana Grasso (Computer Science)
Dr Hannah Little (Communication and Media)
Prof. Greg Lynall (English)
Dr Emma Moreton (English)
Dr Sam Solnick (English)
Dr Hannah Spaulding (Communication & Media)

Affiliate Members

Dr Phoenix Alexander (University of California, Riverside)
Dr Molly Cobb (Honorary Fellow, English)
Dr Glyn Morgan (Science Museum)
Andy Sawyer (Honorary Fellow, English)

PGR Researchers

Jordan Casstles, “Depictions of Surveillance Culture in Speculative Fiction Post–9/11”
Faye Lynch, “The Fembot in the Post-WWII Anglosphere”
Eleanor McAdam [Creative Writing], “Why Would an AI Want a Body?”
David Tierney [Creative Writing], “Animal Communication in Science Fiction”
Alex Veregan, “The Final Frontier: Space and the Rearticulation of the American West in Science Fiction”

Completed PGR Research

Liam Burrell, “Temporality, Subjectivity, Capitalism”
Tom Kewin, “The Posthuman Curator”