Description: A website for Virginia L. Conn's research and utopian projects
Socialist Science Fiction(s) Technoscientific imaginings from Maoist China, Soviet Russia, and the future
Virginia L. Conn
I am a lecturer in the humanities at Stevens Institute of Technology. My work takes place at the intersection of comparative languages and literatures (Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone, Germanophone, Esperantist, and Russophone literatures), science fiction studies, and science and technology studies, particularly those aspects of STS that investigate circulations of knowledge and biopolitics. My research interests include the co-constitution of science fiction and ideology, socialist teleologies, the eth