Skye Cervone
Skye Cervone is an Instructor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where she also completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies. She teaches a number of WAC courses with an SF and F focus.
Dr. Cervone’s research focuses on the relationship between animals and capitalism in science fiction, and she is interested in texts which aim to change the conversation surrounding animals and imagine alternatives to traditional thinking surrounding animal subjectivity. Her dissertation, Living Capital: Situating Animals within Capitalist Modes of Production in Science Fiction, argues that capitalism has the ability to and does shape the ways in which humans classify, respond to, and value animal life, their relationships to animals, and their relationships to one another.
She has previously served the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts as the Public Information Officer (2016-2023) and the Student Caucus Representative (2014-2016). She has been an editor for The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction and a peer reviewer for the Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. Dr. Cervone’s work has appeared in Science Fiction Film and Television, The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Animalia: An Anthrozoology Journal, and Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany. She was also recently interviewed for the “Meet the Future” feature of the SFRA Review.
SF and F Related Undergraduate WAC Courses:
- ENC 1939: Animals and Animality in Western Culture
- LIT 2010: Interpretation of Fiction
- LIT 2931: Introduction to SciFi and Fantasy
While her 1939 contains a minor SF focus, both her 2010 and 2931 focus on SF and F.
SF and F Publications:
“Fostering Responsibility: Human/Animal Relationships in Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Dispossessed and Stanislaw Lem’s The Star Diaries.” The New York Review of Science Fiction, issue 351, vol. 30, no. 3, 2019.
Co-authored, “Digging Deep Into Other Worlds.” The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, vol. 5, no.1, 2018.
“(Re)Evaluating the Animality of Man and the Animality of Animals in Walter Miller’s “Recovering the Effects of Lord Dunsany on J.R.R. Tolkien.” Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany, edited by S.T. Joshi, Scarecrow Press, 2013, pp. 265-80.
Reviews and Occasional Pieces:
“Meet the Future: An Interview with Skye Cervone.” SFRA Review, no. 330, 2019, pp.19-21.
“Stanley G. Weinbaum.” Aliens in Popular Culture, edited by Farah Mendelsohn and Michael Levy, Greenwood Press, 2019, pp. 295-297.
“Contagion.” Science Fiction Theater, edited by Graham Ainsley, 2018, pp. 20.
“Passengers (Review).” Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 11, no. 2, 2018.
“Jurassic World (Review).” Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 10, no. 3, 2017.
Selected Conference Presentations:
“It Had to Be Science Fiction: Octavia Butler and the Ideology of Canonization,” Modern Language Association Conference, New York, NY, January 2018
“The Disruptive Terror of Political Animals: Investigating Pigoons in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy,” IAFA Conference, Orlando, FL March 2017
“Neoliberal Colonization: Corporate Dystopia in Fredrick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants,” SAMLA Conference, Jacksonville, FL November 2016
“Fantastic Beats and Where to Read Them: Engaging the Animals in Fantasy,” invited roundtable participant at the IAFA Conference, Orlando, FL March 2016
“Forget Baudrillard! Pohl and Kornbluth Predicted that Almost Twenty Years Earlier: Social Theory, Science Fiction and Academic Hierarchies,” IAFA Conference, Orlando, FL March 2016
“A Southern Fantasy Novel: Genre and Mode in Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Boston MA March 2016
“The Eugenic Nightmare in C.M. Kornbluth’s ‘The Marching Morons,” IAFA Conference, Orlando, FL March 2015
“Walking in the Realm of Faery: Ronald Johnson’s The Book of the Green Man as Fantasy Text,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY February 2015
For more information about Dr. Cervone’s work, please visit skyecervone.com.
