{"id":27161,"date":"2017-08-08T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T23:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=27161"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:41:29","slug":"2016-theodora-goss-roxanne-samer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/funding\/le-guin-fellowship\/2016-theodora-goss-roxanne-samer\/","title":{"rendered":"2016: Theodora Goss &#038; Roxanne Samer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. scholars from opposite coasts were selected as recipients of the fourth annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, funded by the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) at the University of Oregon and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Theodora Goss is a senior lecturer in the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and a lecturer in the Stonecoast MFA Program. Roxanne Samer is a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-uo-libraries-name-2016-17-le-guin-feminist-science-fiction-fellows\/theodora-goss\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25945\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-300x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-560x560.jpg 560w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss-160x160.jpg 160w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Theodora-Goss.jpg 882w\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theodora Goss<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Theodora Goss\u2019s book publications include the short story collection <em>In the Forest of Forgetting<\/em>; the book-length novella <em>The Thorn and the Blossom<\/em>; and the poetry collection <em>Songs for Ophelia<\/em>. She is the editor of <em>Interfictions<\/em>, a short story anthology, and <em>Voices from Fairyland<\/em>, a poetry anthology. Goss won the World Fantasy Award in 2008 and has been nominated for a number of literary awards. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Boston University and JD from Harvard Law School. Her academic writing focuses on late nineteenth-century anthropology, fantasy, and the monstrous. The fellowship will support her visit to the University of Oregon to carry out research for writing the Ursula K. Le Guin volume of the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series published by the University of Illinois Press.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25946\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-uo-libraries-name-2016-17-le-guin-feminist-science-fiction-fellows\/samer-0bk7eok9_400x400\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25946\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Samer-0BK7Eok9_400x400-300x300.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Samer-0BK7Eok9_400x400-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Samer-0BK7Eok9_400x400-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Samer-0BK7Eok9_400x400-260x260.jpeg 260w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Samer-0BK7Eok9_400x400-160x160.jpeg 160w, http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Samer-0BK7Eok9_400x400.jpeg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"212\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roxanne Samer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roxanne Samer holds a PhD in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Samer coedited with William Whittington the book <em>Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media<\/em>, which is under contract with the University of Texas Press. She is also the editor of \u201cTransgender Media,\u201d a special issue of <em>Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism<\/em> 37.2 (Fall 2017). She will visit UO Libraries\u2019 SCUA to do research toward fleshing out her dissertation, \u201cReceiving Feminisms: Media Cultures and Lesbian Potentiality in the 1970s\u201d, for publication as a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. scholars from opposite coasts were selected as recipients of the fourth annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, funded by the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) at the University of Oregon and the UO&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/funding\/le-guin-fellowship\/2016-theodora-goss-roxanne-samer\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":20663,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32921,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27161\/revisions\/32921"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}