Academics

Faculty & Staff

Robert Crossley, PhD.

  • Professor Emeritus of English, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6701

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Imagining Mars: A Literary History (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)
  • (ed.) An Olaf Stapledon Reader (Syracuse University Press, 1997)
  • Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future (Syracuse University Press and University of Liverpool Press, 1994)
  • (ed. and introduction) Octavia Butler, Kindred (Beacon Press, 1988; revised and reprinted 2004)
  • (ed.) Talking Across the World: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919 (University Press of New England, 1987)
  • H. G. Wells (Starmont Press, 1986; reprinted Borgo Press, 2007)
  • Appearance in Ridley Scott’s Prophets of Science Fiction: H. G. Wells, broadcast on the Science Channel, November 23, 2011
  • Chapters in David Seed (ed.) Future Wars (University of Liverpool Press, 2012);
  • Howard Hendrix et al. (eds.) Visions of Mars (McFarland, 2011);
  • Patrick Parrinder (ed.) H. G. Wells’s Perennial Time Machine (University of Georgia Press, 2001);
  • Alan Sandison (ed.) Histories of the Future (Macmillan 2000);
  • David Seed (ed.) Imagining Apocalypse (Macmillan, 1999);
  • George Slusser (ed.) Styles of Creation (University of Georgia Press, 1992);
  • Patrick Parrinder (ed.) H. G. Wells Under Revision (Associated Universities Press, 1990);
  • Patrick McCarthy (ed.) The Legacy of Olaf Stapledon (Greenwood Press, 1989);
  • Carl Yoke (ed.) Death and the Serpent (Greenwood Press, 1985);
  • Roger Schlobin (ed.) The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982);
  • Gary K. Wolfe (ed.) Science Fiction Dialogues (Academy Chicago, 1982)

Additional Information

Articles and Reviews

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920; Philological Quarterly; Modern Fiction Studies; Utopian Studies; Science Fiction Studies; Dictionary of National Biography; College English; Genre; The Massachusetts Review; The Georgia Review; Eighteenth-Century Life; The Malahat Review; Journal of General Education; Extrapolation; Essays and Studies of the English Association; Blackwell Companion to Science Fiction; The Wirral Journal; National Teaching and Learning Forum; ADE Bulletin