John Rieder

American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he taught from 1980 to 2018. In the early decades of his career, he focused on English Romanticism, and since the beginning of the 21st century, he has concentrated on research in science fiction, emphasizing the medium’s multimodality and its historical and cultural contexts. He is the author of several influential monographs, including Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (2008), Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (2017), and Speculative Epistemologies: An Eccentric Account of SF from the 1960s to the Present (2021). He is a recipient of the SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship (2019). He also serves on the editorial board of Extrapolation, the oldest academic journal devoted to science fiction studies.