Shelley Streeby

SHELLEY STREEBY is professor of ethnic studies and literature. Her research areas include Environmentalisms and Ecologies; Speculative Fiction; Latinx Studies; Black Studies; American Studies; Social Movements and Culture; Media Studies; Digital Humanities; Comics and Visual Culture; Octavia E. Butler Studies; and Archival Methods. She was Director of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop from 2010-2021. She currently serves as a member of the advisory board for the Octavia E. Butler Seeding Futures exhibit at San Diego's New Children's Museum. She is also lead PI on the Mellon-funded Speculative Environmental Futures project. Other research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Huntington Library, the University of Oregon, and a Hellman Fellowship

Pronouns: she/they

Books

• 2018 Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 2013 Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• 2002 American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (American Crossroads Series), 2002.
  • Awarded American Studies Association’s 2003 Lora Romero First Book Prize. Edited Books
• 2019 Co-Editor (with Ramzi Fawaz and Deborah Whaley), Keywords for Comic Studies: New York University Press, Forthcoming.
• 2007 Co-Editor (with Jesse Alemán), Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the Americas Series).

Articles & Book Chapters

• “The Technology of the Short Story: From Sci-Fi to Cli-Fi.” Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story. Ed. Michael Collins and Gavin Jones. Cambridge University Press, 2023
• “Imperialism.” Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Ed. Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective. New York: New York University Press, 2022: 119-124.
• “Indigenous and Black Feminist Knowledge-Production, Speculative Science Stories, and Climate Change Literature.” In A. Johns-Putra & K. Sultzbach (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: 203-213
• “Genre.” Keywords for Comics Studies. Ed. Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Whaley. New York: New York University Press, 2022: 114-118.
• “Speculative Writing, Art, and World-Making in the Wake of Octavia E. Butler as Feminist Theory.” Feminist Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2020, 510-533.
• “Radical Reproduction: Octavia E. Butler’s HistoFuturist Archiving as Speculative Theory,” Women's Studies, 47:7 (2018), 719-732.
• “Reading Jaime Hernandez’s Comics as Speculative Fiction.” Reprinted in Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, edited Olguin and Merla-Watson. University of Washington Press, 2017: 72-92.
• Speculative Fictions of a Divided World: Reading Octavia E. Butler in South Korea,” Journal of English Language and Literature 62:2 (2016): 149-162
• “Empire.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition. Edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2014: 95-100.
• “Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature.” Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. Ed. Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson. New York: NYU Press, 2014: 103-118.
• “Speculative Archives: Histories of the Future of Education," Pacific Coast Philology 49:1 (2014): 25-40.
• Streeby, Shelley, and Benjamin Balthaser, “Mass Culture, the Novel, and the American Left. The Oxford History of The Novel in English: American Novels, 1870-1940, Vol 6. Ed. Michael Elliot and Priscilla Wald. London: Oxford UP.
• “Cheap Sensation: Pamphlet Potboilers and Beadle’s Dime Novels.” The Oxford History Of The Novel in English: American Novels to 1870, Vol 5. Edited Gerald Kennedy and Leland Person. London: Oxford University Press.
• “Imagining Mexico in War and Romance: Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Visual Culture.” Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States. Ed. John Tutino. Houston: University of Texas Press, 2012: 110-140.
• “Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket.” The [Oxford] Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Edited by Russ Castronovo. London: Oxford University Press, 2012: 115-136. 3
• “Dime Novels and the Rise of Mass Market Genres.” The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Edited by Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia, Evy, and Benjamin Reiss. London: Cambridge University Press, 2011: 586-599.
• “Popular, Mass, and High Culture.” A Concise Companion to American Studies. Edited by John Carlos Rowe. London: Wiley Blackwell, 2010: 432-452.
• “June 1846: James Russell Lowell’s Biglow Papers are cut from the newspaper and pasted onto workshop walls all over Boston.” A New Literary History of America. Edited by Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009: 263-68.
• “Labor, Memory, and the Boundaries of Print Culture: From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution.” American Literary History, Volume 19, No. 2, Summer 2007: 406-433.
• “Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons,” Blackwell Companion to American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter. Blackwell. 2010. (110-121).
• "Sensational Fiction,” A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, ed. Shirley Samuels. London: Blackwell, 2004: 179-190.
• “American Sensations: Empire, Amnesia, and the US-Mexican War,” American Literary History 13:1 (Spring 2001): 1-40.
• “Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848,” Post-Nationalist American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe. University of California Press, 2000: 166-197.

Digital Humanities

• Octavia E. Butler Seeding Futures Exhibit at New Children's Museum, San Diego  LINK
• Public humanities work  LINK

• Ph.D. in English, UC Berkeley, 1994
• B.A. in English, Harvard, 1986