Taryne Jade Taylor

Dr. Taryne Jade Taylor is an Advanced Assistant Professor of Science Fiction at Florida Atlantic University. She earned her PhD from the University of Iowa with a graduate certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Taylor is a double-owl, having earned both her BA and MA in English with a concentration in Fantasy and Science Fiction from FAU. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly feminist science fiction and diasporic Latinx Futurisms. She firmly believes science fiction and fantasy build paths to a better, inclusive future, which is why her research focuses on diversity, inclusion, and justice as presented in the secondary worlds of the fantastic. Dr. Taylor is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to CoFuturisms with Grace L. Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. This 375,000-word scholarly collection is the first comprehensive survey of the field. She is currently working on her monograph The Future is Decolonial: Defining Latinx Futurisms. Dr. Taylor has published in such journals as Science Fiction Studies, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Paradoxa, Label Me Latina/o, and Mythlore. She is an associate editor for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, co-founding editor of the Routledge book series Studies in Global Genre Fiction, and a juror for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. With Dr. Isiah Lavender III, Dr. Taylor worked to establish the BIPOC Caucus of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

Select SF/F Books

Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms. Author of introduction (solo) and co-editor of the handbook with Grace L. Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. Routledge. In press. Forthcoming 2023.

Select Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

“Santería’s Decolonial Futurisms: Princess Nokia, ‘Brujas’ (2016).” Uneven Futures: Lessons for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan. MIT Press, December 2022, 302-308.

“Latinxs Unidos: Futurism and Latinidad in United States Latinx Hip-Hop.” Extrapolation 61.1-2 (2020): pp. 29-52.

“An Unconventional and Contradictory Life: Lady Florence Dixie, 1855-1905.” Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. Brenda Ayres. Palgrave, 2017, pp. 231-248.

Select Interviews & Other Publications

“Daniel José Older on the Shadowshaper Cypher Series: Part II.” Label Me Latina/o, Vol. 13, 2022.

“Daniel José Older on the Shadowshaper Cypher Series: Part I.” Label Me Latina/o, Vol. 11, 2021, pp. 1-7.

“Latinx Fantasy Literature.” Symposium on the Fantastic. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 32.2 2021.

“A Singular Dislocation: An Interview with Junot Díaz.” Paradoxa 26 (Sf Now December 2014): 97-109.

“Riverside, California in 1870: A Feminist Utopia for Annie Denton Cridge?” Science Fiction Studies 119.40.1 (March 2012): 200-203.

Select Book Prefaces

“Preface” (with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay) for Science Fiction Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Futures, Cosmopolitan Concerns by Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, Routledge, Studies in Global Genre Fiction, March 2022.

“Preface” (with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay) for The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook, edited by Regina Kanyu Wang, Jiaren Wang, and Storycom,. Routledge, Studies in Global Genre Fiction. March 2022.

“Preface” (with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay) for Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanislaw Lem by Agnieszka Gajewska. Routledge, Studies in Global Genre Fiction Series, November 2021.

“Preface” (with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay) for Sultana’s Sisters: Gender and Genre in Muslim South Asia edited by Haris Qadeer and P. K. Yasser Arafath. Routledge, Studies in Global Genre Fiction, September 2021.

Select Invited Talks

“Latinx SF.” LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York. October 2021.

“Imagining Latinx Futures.” Recording Complete. Imagination and the Future Video Lecture Series. Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, and CoFUTURES, University of Oslo.

“Introduction to Latino/a Speculative Fiction.” 10 January 2016. NEH/ALA Funded Latino Americans Grant. Santa Fe College. Gainesville, FL.

“Digging for Utopia: Recovering Victorian Feminist Utopias.” 8 August 2012. Eberly Family Special Collections, Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA.

“Imagining a Feminist Utopia in 19th Century Iowa: Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant’s Unveiling a Parallel.” 8 March 2013. University of Iowa Council on the Status of Women. Iowa City, IA.

Select Conference Participation

“Feminist Ancestral Futurisms in Latinx SF/F.” When It Changed Women in SF/F since 1972. The Science Fiction Foundation and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and Games and Gaming Lab, University of Glasgow. December 2022.

“Ancestral Latinx Futurisms: Indigenous Science and Traditional Knowledge” Virtual International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. October 2022.

“Race, Bias, and Belonging in the Academy.” Invited Panelist. Plenary Roundtable. The Science Fiction Research Association Conference. June 2021.

“Defining Latinx Futurisms II: Latinx Futurisms Don’t Need to be Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Research Association Conference. June 2021.

“Defining Latinx Futurisms: Latinx Diasporic Science Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2021.

“Indigenous Sciences, BIPOC SF, and Environmental/Restorative Justice.” Opening Plenary Panel with Grace L. Dillon, Andrea Hairston, Isiah Lavender III, & Joy Sanchez-Taylor. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2021.

“Latinxs Unidos: Latinx Futurism in Hip-Hop.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2019.

“India as Feminist Utopia: Victorian Women Imagining the Global South.” North American Victorian Studies Association. October 2018.

“All the Men are Dead: Nineteenth Century Feminist Science Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. March 2017.

Recent SF/F Courses Taught

• LIT 6932/WST 6924” Mythologies in Latinx SF/F (Spring 2023)
• LIT 3313: Science Fiction (Fall 2022)