{"570851":{"#nid":"570851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Steampunk stories collection features work by former Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows from Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"The work of several former\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/brittain-fellowship\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrittain Postdoctoral Fellows\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is going to be featured in Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures forthcoming this winter from University of Minnesota Press.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFor those of us unfamiliar with Steampunk \u2013 Steampunk refers to a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology. Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The book is a collection of curated\u0026nbsp; by authors Rachel Bowser and Brian Croxall. Croxall says the book attempts to ask the question \u201c Why steampunk?\u201d and, perhaps more importantly, \u201cwhy steampunk now?\u201d\u0026nbsp; why did steampunk explode in popularity in the first years of the twenty-first century? What is it about the aesthetic, the themes, or the crosscutting of anachronistic technologies that speaks to so many around the globe? Why did steampunk only become a thing\u2014and a thing that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/analytics\/us\/en\/conversations\/social-sentiment-steampunk.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIBM\u2019s social analytics predict will continue to grow\u003C\/a\u003E\u2014more than 30 years after its invention in the early 1970s? Perhaps it\u2019s not surprising that a genre that celebrates the similarities and disjunctures among times took a while to find its own moment, but our collection identifies specific trends and events to which steampunk as a genre, a fan culture, and art movement respond. The essays in the book address these subjects as well as disability studies, postcolonial studies, digital humanities, Victorian culture, urban studies, performance, graphic novels, film, cultural trauma, and even the question of whether steampunk is \u201cpunk enough\u201d. \u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;The Brittain Postdoctoral fellow alumni whose work will be featured in the collection will be:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gpc.academia.edu\/KathrynCrowther\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKathryn Crowther\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(now at Perimeter College at Georgia State University) \u2013\u0026nbsp;\u201cFrom Steam Arms to Brass Goggles: Steampunk, Prostheses, and Disability\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.lisahager.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELisa Hager\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(now at University of Wisconsin\u2013Waukesha) \u2013\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe Alchemy of Aether: Steampunk as Reading Practice in Karina Cooper\u2019s Tarnished and Gilded\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/ebb84591-0a87-55b8-b6f0-f9b631d25fb8\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoseph Weakland\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(now at RouteMatch) \u2013 \u201cOut of Control: Disrupting Technological Mastery in Michael Moorcock\u2019s The Warlord of the Air and K. W. Jeter\u2019s Infernal Devices\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rogerwhitson.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERoger Whitson\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(now at Washington State University). \u2013\u0026nbsp;\u201cHow to Theorize with a Hammer; or, Making and Baking Things in Steampunk and the Digital Humanities\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship is a highly selective program that offers faculty members at the Georgia Institute of Technology an opportunity for to develop innovative teaching and scholarship in writing, communication, rhetoric, composition, technical and business communication, creative writing, film studies, performance studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and related fields. The Brittain Fellowship\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/brittain-fellowship\/bf-history\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehistory extends over 20 years\u003C\/a\u003E. Fellow Alumni hold academic and professional positions in universities and industries from around the world.\u0026nbsp;The book will be available for purchase December 2016 onwards. For further details visit :\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/like-clockwork\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/like-clockwork\u003C\/a\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The work of several former Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows is going to be featured in Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures forthcoming this winter from University of Minnesota Press."}],"uid":"27974","created_gmt":"2016-08-30 14:46:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:30","author":"Michael Terrell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"567851":{"id":"567851","type":"image","title":"Steampunk Book","body":null,"created":"1472145127","gmt_created":"2016-08-25 17:12:07","changed":"1475895374","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:14","alt":"Steampunk Book","file":{"fid":"206982","name":"steampunk_book_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steampunk_book_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steampunk_book_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":593849,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/steampunk_book_0.png?itok=ne2U1DXk"}}},"media_ids":["567851"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}