Virginia L. Conn is a comparative literature PhD candidate at Rutgers University whose work occurs at the intersection of comparative languages and literatures (Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone, Germanophone, Russophone, and Esperantist literatures) and science and technology studies, particularly those aspects of STS that investigate circulations of knowledge and biopolitics. Her dissertation (“The Body Politic: Socialist Science Fiction and the Embodied State”) focuses on science fiction as a tool of nation-building in Mao-era China, Soviet Russia, and the GDR.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Making a Mess of the World: On Hao Jingfang’s “Vagabonds”
Hao Jingfang’s “Vagabonds” considers the reflexive matrix of Chinese and Western cultural perceptions....
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Finding and Losing Oneself in “Invisible Planets”
Virginia L. Conn visits "Invisible Planets," a collection of Chinese SF stories and criticism edited and translated by Ken Liu....
