Rob Latham
Rob Latham is a former professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and a science fiction critic.[1]
Career
Latham was an English professor at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Riverside.[2]
Latham is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (2002)[3] based on his 1995 Stanford University Ph.D. thesis[4] Consuming Youth: Technologies of Desire and American Youth Culture.
Latham is a co-editor of the Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014) and Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings (2017). He is senior editor and a contributor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and an editor-at-large and a contributor for Los Angeles Review of Books.[1]
In 2013, Latham received the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service from the SF Research Association.[5] He was selected for the Clareson Award jury in 2016 and 2017.[6]
References
- ^ a b Rob Latham, a profile at the LARB
- ^ "SFE: Latham, Rob". sf-encyclopedia.com.
- ^ Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption, Latham. press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ Rob Latham record at Stanford University
- ^ "Science Fiction Research Association - Thomas D. Clareson Award". sfra.org. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ "Award Committees", SFRA