Fashioning the Future: Women's Sci-Fi Through Style & Design

Forsyth Writes Together

In this talk, Professor Lisa Yaszek explores the history of women's science fiction through the lens of fashion and design. After briefly reviewing how and why fashion became central to science fictional representations of the future, Professor Yaszek takes her audience on a fantastic voyage though two centuries of speculative storytelling, filmmaking, and game design by women that invites us to ask ourselves: how do the ways we present ourselves to each other in the here and now shape the kinds of worlds we hope to inhabit in the future? 

Lisa Yaszek is Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures.  Yaszek’s books include The Self-Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Narrative; Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction; and Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction. Her ideas about science fiction as the premiere story form of modernity have been featured in The Washington Post, Food and Wine Magazine, and USA Today and in the AMC miniseries, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction.

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