Hilary A Strang

I’m the director of MAPH and a Senior Instructional Professor in the humanities, English and gender studies. I started at MAPH as a preceptor, when I was doing my Ph.D. in English here at U of C, and I’ve worked full-time for MAPH in various capacities since 2009. I work on and teach science fiction as a way of thinking and feeling beyond capitalism into collective, communal life. I’m particularly interested in the feminist utopian SF of the 1970s, environmental and ecological SF, and utopia and utopianism, as well as Marxist and communist theory. I’ve advised MAPH theses on solarpunk, femininity and artificial intelligence, Jamaica Kincaid, George Eliot, Ursula Le Guin, and a fantastic array of other topics (MAPH students are amazing!). Outside the university, I've taught in adult and community-based education programs for many years, and I also co-host a podcast on science fiction and utopia.