Alexis Lothian

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First name

Alexis

Last name

Lothian

Job title

PhD Candidate in English with Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies

Website

http://queergeektheory.org

Brief Bio

Scholar of queer and feminist theory, temporality and futurity, science fiction, online fan culture, and critical remix video.

Full Bio

My dissertation, titled “Deviant Futures: Queer Temporality and the Cultural Politics of Science Fiction,” recontextualizes the recent upsurge in queer theorizing about time by placing it in conversation with cultural representations of imagined futures in literature, film, and new media—from nineteenth-century feminist utopias to Afrofuturistic fiction to contemporary remix video. I have presented and published on the relationship of feminist and queer theory to literary science fiction, on online queer, feminist, and antiracist fan practices, and 
on fan video’s challenge to conventional understandings of intellectual property. As well as single-author essays, I have worked on several collaborative publications, cowriting academic essays with Kristina Busse and moderating print roundtables on queer fandom and fan 
antiracist activism. Since its launch in 2008 I have been co-editor of the Symposium section 
of the open source online fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures 
(http://journal.transformativeworks.org), which seeks to bring fans’ informal tradition 
of critical analysis into conversation with its academic equivalent. I maintain a web 
presence at http://queergeektheory.org and http://twitter.com/alothian. Under a pseudonym, I participate in online media and feminist science fiction fan communities and make fan videos, including collaborative works as a member of the Cylon Vidding Machine collective.

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