Tag Archives: Steampunk

Steampunk & LGBTQ+ Identities – Further Reading & Resources

Posted on 16 December, 2020 by Lisa Hager

It was lovely to chat with everyone at the A Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Queer Hedge School Event on December 16, 2020! Click here to watch the recording of the event. Below you will find some useful links to further … Continue reading →

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ENG 261: British Literature II (1798-Present) (Spring 2017)

Posted on 31 December, 2017 by Lisa Hager

My ENG 261 course focuses on central cultural and literary debates of British literature in the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Postmodern periods. While discussing and writing about debates such as the role of women to the conflict between science and … Continue reading →

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ENG/GSW 279: Women Writers (Fall 2016)

Posted on 31 December, 2016 by Lisa Hager

Data & Dames British Women Writers & Information Technology As a study of women writers through a survey of significant poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and/or film, this course focused on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women poets, novelists, journalists, and life writers … Continue reading →

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From Chemistry to Cogs: Ether’s Victorian Aestheticism & Contemporary Steampunk (NAVSA 2016)

Posted on 2 November, 2016 by Lisa Hager

This paper will trace the through line between Victorian literary aesthetic visions of ether, which was originally thought to be the medium through which light traveled, and twenty-first century reworkings of the element in steampunk fiction in order to argue … Continue reading →

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ENG 273: International Steampunk Literature & Culture (Fall 2014; Spring 2016)

Posted on 26 March, 2016 by Lisa Hager

My ENG 273: Studies in International Literature course focuses on international steampunk literature. A sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy, steampunk literature involves an alternate historical and retro-futuristic re-imagining of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Specifically, it is concerned with how … Continue reading →

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#SteampunkHands Around the World 2016 ~ A Few of My Favorite Steampunk Things

Posted on 25 February, 2016 by Lisa Hager

Though words are my usual form of expression as an academic, I decided to use images and words to show you a few of my favorite things about steampunk because so much of steampunk is about involves playing with boundaries … Continue reading →

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