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Robert Crossley, Professor and Director of the M.A. Program Robert Crossley is a biographer, editor, and literary critic, and serves as literary executor for the estate of the English writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950). He has twice been awarded research fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, most recently for his current project, a history of Mars in the human imagination from the invention of the telescope to the present. He teaches graduate courses on the Epic Imagination, The End of the World, and The Teaching of Literature; his recent undergraduate courses include English Epic Poetry, The Idea of Utopia, History of Science Fiction, H.G. Wells and J.R.R. Tolkien, Imagining Mars, and Five British Writers. Selected Publications Books: ed., An Olaf Stapledon Reader (Syracuse U.P., 1997); Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future (Syracuse U.P. & Liverpool U.P., 1994); Talking Across the World (U.P. of New England, 1987; Australian edition from U of New South Wales Press, 1988); H.G. Wells (Starmont, 1986) Articles & Reviews: Philological Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Science-Fiction Studies, College English, Modern Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, Georgia Review, Eighteenth-Century Life, Genre, The Wellsian, Extrapolation Chapters: Blackwell's Companion to Science Fiction (Oxford, 2005); H.G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine (Univ Georgia Press, 2001); Histories of the Future (Macmillan, 2000); Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis (St. Martin's, 1999); Fictional Space: Essays and Studies of the English Association (Blackwell, 1991). Office: Wheatley-6-014 |