MLitt, Modernities: Literature, Theory and Culture, University of Glasgow

BA, English and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Thesis Working Title

Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Speculative Fiction

Publications

Book Chapters

• co-authored with Esthie Hugo, "'Growgirls’ and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures, Feminism and Reproductive Technologies in SF from the Global South" in Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction, Palgrave, ed. Sümeyra Buran and Sherryl Vint, forthcoming
• "'You eat or you die': Sixth Extinction Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative Fiction" in Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There, Routledge, ed. Giulia Champion, 2021

Journal Articles

• "Neermeat, ChickieNobs, and Celebrity Steaks: In Vitro Meat in Science Fiction Narratives", under review
• The Sociopolitics of Language: Bilingual Education in Tibet in Sino-Platonic Papers
• Remaking Mao: From Propaganda to Pop Culture in the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs

Book and Media Reviews

• Upload (TV Series) for SFRA Review Vol. 51, No. 1 (Winter 2021)
• The Poetry of Fossils, a review of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier for Review 31

Invited Talks

• 1 February 2021: In Vitro Meat: Ethics and Culture, supported by the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre and ASLE-UKI

Conference Papers

• 11 December, 2020: "Their Tradition is Our Innovation: Insect-Eating and the Future of Food". At The Diasporic Plate: Food in the Contemporary Diasporic World in Times of Crisis, hosted virtually by Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
• 24 September, 2020 (reconfigured, stand-alone panel due to in-person conference cancellation): "Alternative Foodways and Alternative Futures: The Politics of Meat-Eating in The Carhullan Army and Moon of the Crusted Snow". At Imagining Alternatives: Speculative Fiction and the Political, 11th Annual Conference of the GFF, hosted virtually by the University of Augsburg, Germany. Recording available here
• 10-12 September, 2020: **CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19** "Alternative Foodways and Alternative Futures: Food and Politics in Contemporary SF". At Imagining Alternatives: Speculative Fiction and the Political, 11th Annual Conference of the GFF, hosted at the University of Augsburg, Germany
• 6 February, 2020: Poster Presentation (of Dissertation Research). At 'Food Encounters: A Network Conference', hosted at the University of Warwick, UK
• 7-9 November, 2019: "Which came first, the broiler chicken or the Anthropocene?: Meat Imaginaries in Contemporary Speculative Fiction", At Craving Planet Earth: Food in Culture - Past, Present, and Future, hosted at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• 1-5 July, 2019: "Meat Culture/Cultured Meat: Food Futures in Contemporary Climate Fiction" At "Utopia, Dystopia and Climate Change", 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Europe, hosted at the Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
• 11-13 April, 2019: "Techno-Utopia and the Future of Food in The Blind Pig." At More Meals to Come: An International Conference, hosted at the University of Porto, Portugal
• 17th November, 2018: "'Ethical' Foodways: Justifying Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative Fiction." At ''Bites Here and There'': Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines, hosted at the University of Warwick, UK

Event Organisation

• Conference Convening Committee, Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics, a virtual interdisciplinary conference supported by Cappadocia University, 13-15 January 2021
• Co-Organizer, Flows and Floods: Changing Environments and Cultures, a one-day interdisciplinary conference funded by the HRC Doctoral Fellowship, 22 February 2020
• Session Convener, Departmental Reading Group session on the Anthropocene from non-white perspectives, 29 January 2020
• Co-Organizer, 15th Annual English Postgraduate Symposium, a one-day conference showcasing the work of the University of Warwick's postgraduates in English and Comparative Literary Studies and related disciplines, 23 May 2019

Editorial Roles

• Co-Editor, 'Food Futures' with Graeme Macdonald, a special issue of Science Fiction Studies, forthcoming March 2022
• Co-Editor, 'Animal Futurity' with Giulia Champion, a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, forthcoming Jan/Feb 2022
• Editorial Board Member, Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2020-2021
• Associate Editor, Exchanges, Special Issue on Climate Fiction, forthcoming Jan/Feb 2021
• Associate Editor, Exchanges, Vol 7 No 2 (2020): Special Issue: Cannibalism

Podcast Appearances

• Knowing Animals, April 5, 2021
• The Exchanges Discourse, 'Conversation With... Associate Editors', Feb 4, 2021

Teaching

• 2019-2020: Seminar Tutor for EN122 Modes of Reading

Membership

• Environmental Humanities Network
• University of Warwick Food GRP
• Utopian Studies Society (Europe)
• Association for the Study of Food and Society (2021)
• Science Fiction Research Association (2021)
• New Voices in Postcolonial Studies
• IFSTAL (2018 Cohort)

Nora.Castle@warwick.ac.uk

Associate Fellow (AFHEA)

Supervisor:
Prof. Graeme Macdonald

Funded by:
Chancellor's International Scholarship

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