Hugh Charles O’Connell is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research focuses on the intersections of Marxist utopian theory and globalization studies in contemporary British and Anglophone postcolonial literatures. Recent essays on British and postcolonial science fiction have appeared in Paradoxa, CR: The New Centennial Review, and Modern Fiction Studies. His essay on Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, “Mutating Towards the Future,” received Honorable Mention for the 2013 Science Fiction Research Association’s Pioneer Award for excellence in scholarship.