Michael Pitts

Michael Pitts, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D.

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Ph.D. in English literature, University of Arkansas, 2019

M.Ed. in Secondary English Education, Samford University, 2013

M.A. in English literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2011

B.A. in Accounting and Business Management, Samford University, 2009

 

Specialization: Speculative fiction, gender studies, African-American literature, feminist theory, utopian studies, and American film.

Monographs

Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man, Lexington Books, 2021.

Articles

“Complicating American Manhood: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and the Feminist Utopia as a Site for Transforming Masculinities.” European Journal of American Studies, 2020.

"Power, Control, and an Interplanetary Dialectic of Masculinities in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed." Extrapolation 60:3 (December 2019): 249-272. ISSN: 0014-5483 (Print), ISSN 2047-7708 (Online).

"Parallel Universe: As I Lay Dying and The Odyssey." Burning Daylight, 15 pages (2014).

Reviews

Gender and Environment in Science Fiction (review).” Extrapolation, vol. 62, no. 1, 2021, pp. 97-99.

Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936 (review).” Science Fiction Research Association Review, vol. 50, no. 4, 2020, pp. 169-171.

The Endless (review).” Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 13, no. 3, 2020, pp. 445-449.

Love, Death & Robots (review). Science Fiction Research Association Review, vol. 50, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-250.

"Aging Masculinity in the American Novel by Alex Hobbs (review)." South Central Review, vol. 35, no. 2, 2018, pp. 145-147.

"Solomon Northrup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave by David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, and Rachel Seligman (review)." Arkansas Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2015, pp. 56-58.

"Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (review)." South Central Review, vol. 31, no. 1, 2014, pp. 130-132.

Dictionary Entries

"19th -Century Southern Literature." The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2017.

"Marcelin, Frederic." Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016.

"Hercules, Felix Eugene Michael." Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016.