Answering the question, "Why are apocalyptic narratives so popular." http://pypaik.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/why-are-apocalyptic-n arratives-so-popular/
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Faculty Member, French, Italian and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor
Letters and Science
About
My book, From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe, recently came out with the University of Minnesota Press.
My current project examines a series of related themes - climate change, imperial expansionism, scarcity - from the standpoint of world-making.






