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Rob Latham, Associate Professor (951) 827-5301 Personal website: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~robertla/ Rob Latham (B.A. in English and Philosophy, University of Florida, 1988; Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1995) teaches contemporary American and British literature, cultural studies, and science fiction. A senior editor of the journal Science Fiction Studies since 1997, he is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television and The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Chicago, 2002), a study of contemporary consumer youth culture and its relationship to technological systems and discourses. He is currently completing a book on "New Wave" science fiction of the 1960s and '70s, focusing on its connections to counterculture movements and debates of the period, as well as co-editing a teaching anthology on science fiction for use in college classrooms. http://www.depauw.edu/sfs |