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Sylvia Kelso is currently a part-time lecturer and tutor at James Cook
University in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. She has taught English
there since 1985 and in addtion is currently contributing to a course on
Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Social Sciences school. She has published
poetry, including a contribution to an Australian Women's Anthology, and
essays, and reviews on fantasy, science fiction, modern female Gothic or
mystery novels and modern male horror writers like Stephen King. Her essays
have appeared in Science-Fiction Studies, Foundation, the
Journal
of the Fantastic in the Arts, Para.Doxa: Studies in World Literature,
and The New York Review of Science Fiction. She is currently an
editorial board member for Para.Doxa. She has a PhD on the interaction
of feminism with modern Gothic and science fiction, and has just submitted
a Creative Writing MA based round an sf novel set in alternate North Queenslands.
A long-term creative writer, she is also working on publication of a fantasy
novel. |