Carol McGuirk

Carol McGuirk is one of the founding faculty of the SF/F concentration at FAU. Professor McGuirk studies and teaches literary and cultural theory including animal rights, and contemporary British and U. S. science fiction. She is an editor of Science Fiction Studies and, with her fellow SFS editors, co-edited Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Wesleyan UP), one of the central textbooks for teaching SF at the university-level. "The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith," an extended essay on a neglected writer of the Cold War era, was shortlisted for the Pioneer Award (Science Fiction Research Association). In addition to her extensive work in SF, Professor McGuirk also is a noted scholar of Scottish studies including ballads and folk-song and seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century British poetry.

Select SF/F Publications

Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2010.

“Realist of a Larger Reality: Ursula K. LeGuin, 1929-2018.” Science Fiction Studies 45.2 (July 2018). Signed as by “The Editors,” our custom for obituaries of long-time friends of the journal. 402-405.

“Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, and American Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 45.1 (Mar. 2018): 213-18.

“In Memoriam, Brian W. Aldiss.” SFS 44.3 (Nov. 2017): 645-46. Signed as by “The Editors.”

“Asimov, Boucher, Heinlein, and Detective Fiction; or, Is Jubal Harshaw’s Role-Model Nero Wolfe?” Science Fiction Studies 44.1 (Mar. 2017): 192-98.

“The Animal Downdeep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the Underpeople.” Science Fiction Studies 37.3 (Nov. 2010): 466-477.

“The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith.” Science Fiction Studies 28.2 (July 2001): 161-200. Shortlisted for the Pioneer Award, Science Fiction Research Association.

“Nowhere Man: Towards a Poetics of Post-Utopian Characterization.” SFS 21.2 (1994): 141-54.

“Margaret Drabble to Angela Carter: Women Novelists, 1962-1992.” The Columbia History of the British Novel . Ed. John Richetti et al. New York: Columbia UP, 1994: 939-965.

“The ‘New’ Romancers: Science Fiction Innovators from Gernsback to Gibson.” Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Ed. George Slusser and Tom Shippey. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1992. 109-132.

“Optimism and the Limits of Subversion in The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.” Ursula Le Guin: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1986: 243-258. Rpt. Modern Critical Interpretations: The Left Hand of Darkness. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1987: 117-134.