Week 1:
Unmaking the West: “What-If” Scenarios That Rewrite World History, “Counterfactual History: Its Advocates, Its Critics, & Its Uses”
Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk, “Clockwork Counterfactuals: Allohistory and the Steampunk Rhetoric of Inquiry”
Week 2:
“Steampunk Practices: Time, Tactility, and a Racial Politics of Touch,” Jenny Sundén
Arley Sorg Reviews Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Dread and Black: A Review of Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation
Week 4:
“Capitalist Monsters,” Steve Shaviro
Review: Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker
Week 5:
Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism, Introduction
“Alien-Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and Millennial Capitalism,” Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff
Week 6:
“Analog Incarnations: Steampunk Performance across Time,” Diana M. Pho
Week 7:
“Assessing Steampunk’s Future: The Test Case of The Gaslight Dogs,” Terri Doughty
“We the resilient”: colonizing indigeneity in the era of trump,” Julian Reid
Week 8:
“The Book of Esther–A Case Study of Ideological Interpretation,” Julia Schwartzmann
Review: ‘The Book of Esther,’ by Emily Barton
Week 9:
“Steampunk and the Performance of Gender and Sexuality,” Martin Danahay
“Steampunk Anachronisms: Queer Histories of the Digital Humanities,” Roger Whitson
Steampunk and Victorientalism Assessed
Week 11:
“Japanese Neo-Victorian Fictions: Looking Back to the Victorian Age from Japan,” Yui Nakatsuma
Introduction to Focus: Speculative Fiction
Week 13:
Corporeal Anachronisms: Notes on Affect, Relationality, and Power in Steampunk
WHAT IS STEAMFUNK? Exposing the Big Steampunk Lie!
Week 15:
“Variations on a Name: The –Punks of Our Times,” Dr. Jaymee Goh
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