Thomas publishes book about SF genre
Furman University education professor Paul Thomas has published another book in the series titled Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres (P.L. Thomas, Ed.).The third book in the series, Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: Challenging Genres is published by Sense Publishers. Thomas authored the first book in the series, Challenging Genres: Comics and Graphic Novels, published by Sense in 2010.
In Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction, Thomas explores the broad category of SF as a genre that challenges readers, viewers, teachers, and scholars, and then as one that is often itself challenged. The collected chapters include work from teachers, scholars, artists, and a wide range of SF fans. It offers a unique blend of voices to scholarship about SF as well as examinations of the place for SF in the classroom.
Among the authors contributing chapters are Furman faculty members Aaron Passell (sociology), Michael Svec (education), Mike Winiski (associate director for Furman’s Center for Teaching and Learning), and Thomas.