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Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
ALINA UTRATA
University of Cambridge
2
Justin Louis Mann
Northwestern University
3
A. K. Ajeesh
National Institute of Technology Warangal
4
Barnita Bagchi
University of Amsterdam
5
Tao Leigh Goffe
Cornell University
6
Hoda El Shakry
University of Chicago
7
Shamika Klassen
Google (United States)
8
Samuel Day Fassbinder
Society for Classical Studies
9
Sakena De Young-Scaggs
Stanford University
10
Lanlan Du
Nanjing University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Black to the Future - The Power of Designing Afrofuturist Technology with Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary People
Designing Interactive Systems Conference|2024
18 cit.
2
National affects: the everyday atmospheres of being political
Social Identities|2024
0 cit.
3
What Are You Reading?
interactions|2024
0 cit.
4
Liberal Theories and Ecological Justice: Proposing a Non-Hierarchical Framework
Athena filosofijos studijos|2024
0 cit.
5
Ageing in Indian higher education: analysing narratives of post-Independence women writers, educators, and academics
Paedagogica Historica|2025
0 cit.
6
Radio Silence
Social Text|2025
0 cit.
7
Contested territory: a theory of land and democracy beyond sovereign bounds
Contemporary Political Theory|2025
0 cit.
8
Feral Ecologies and the Toxic Sublime: Intermedial Narratives of Contamination in Fever Dream
Ekphrasis|2025
0 cit.
9
<i>You Don’t Know What War Is:</i> Yeva Skalietska’s Diary as a Testimony and Counter-Narrative of Trauma in Conflict
Life Writing|2025
0 cit.
10
Vulnerability as a Shared Condition: Rethinking Empathy across Species and Circuits
Topoi|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Clara Hick
University of Exeter
2
Patrick B. Sharp
California State University Los Angeles
3
Adam Searle
University of Nottingham
4
Jasmine Syedullah
Vassar College
5
S. Rukmini
Vellore Institute of Technology University
6
Judith Rahn
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
7
J.R. Burgmann
University of Warwick
8
Shaun Johnson
University of Oxford
9
N. K. Jemisin
Unknown
10
Anna McFarlane
University of Dundee

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers|2022
47 cit.
2
For a new weird geography
Progress in Human Geography|2022
43 cit.
3
Posthuman perception of artificial intelligence in science fiction: an exploration of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
AI & Society|2022
34 cit.
4
"Becoming More Ourselves": Four Emergent Strategies of Black Feminist Congregational Abolition
Palimpsest|2022
27 cit.
5
Climate Cattle
Environmental Humanities|2024
14 cit.
6
Glitches in the technonatural present
Dialogues in Human Geography|2023
13 cit.
7
Nine decades of research on Zostera capensis: from foundational science to conservation and resilience
Marine Ecology Progress Series|2024
12 cit.
8
English language teaching in technological and management studies in India: An edu-techno approach
AIP conference proceedings|2024
5 cit.
9
Reproductive Loss in the Anthropocene: Paul McAuley's Austral
Science Fiction Studies|2023
3 cit.
10
Digital ecologies in practice
Cultural Geographies|2024
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Donna Haraway
Unknown
2
Darko Suvin
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
3
Jan-Felix Schrape
University of Stuttgart
4
Zhaoli Song
National University of Singapore
5
Kate Marshall
UNSW Sydney
6
Robin van den Akker
Erasmus University Rotterdam
7
D. H. Melhem
Université de Montpellier
8
Clyde Wilcox
Georgetown University
9
Mark Rose
Deakin University
10
Peter Keating
Université du Québec à Montréal

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Feminist Studies|1988
17.5k cit.
2
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)|1988
7k cit.
3
Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Feminist Review|1992
6.8k cit.
4
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1992
5.5k cit.
5
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Environmental Humanities|2015
2.9k cit.
6
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Unknown Journal|2013
2.6k cit.
7
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
Journal of American History|1990
2.3k cit.
8
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
The American Historical Review|1991
1.4k cit.
9
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
MLN|1980
1.2k cit.
10
A manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s
Australian Feminist Studies|1987
797 cit.

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