Marleen Barr

Adjunct Assistant Professor
English

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Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discouse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the humorous campus novel Oy Pioneer!.

Expertise

Degrees

Phd, State University of New York-Buffalo (1979)

MA, University of Michigan (1975)

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

Publications

Selected Bibliography

Original criticism

Creating Room For A Singularity of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange’s “We, Robots” (2013)
Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies (2000)
Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond (1993)
Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (1992)
Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory (1987)

Edited works of criticism

Future Females: A Critical Anthology (1981) (editor)
Future Females, The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism (2000) (editor)
Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (2003) (editor)
Reading Science Fiction (2009) (co-editor, with James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria)

Fiction

When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber (collection, 2018)^[4]
Husband Hunting in Africa (short story, 2016)
Rudolph The Red Nosed Squirrel or Miracle on 82nd Street: Fiction/Quotation/Exposition (2015)
Thanksgiving Brunch Mitzvah or, the End of the World for Women (2015)
The Pen Is Mightier than the Coop Board’s Borg Queen: A SF/Memoir (2014)
Oy It’s The Cosmetics, Stupid: Or How Estee Lauder Changed the Post 9/11 World (2013)
The Birther Committee Inception: An Unreal Manhattan Real Estate Story (2013)
To The Moon, Said Newt Or Informing New Yorkers That Outer Space Contains Space (2012)
Oy Pioneer! (novel; 2003)

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

Fulbright lectureship, University of Dortmund, Germany (2006)
Distinguished Scholar grant, Japan (2000)
Fulbright lectureship, University of Tübingen, Germany (1989–1990)
Fulbright lectureship to the University of Düsseldorf, Germany (1983–84)
Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism (1997) Science Fiction Research Association