Nora Castle
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 2022
- "'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
- "In Vitro Meat and Science Fiction: Contemporary Narratives of Cultured Flesh", 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
Editorial Introductions
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co-authored with Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott, "The 'Living in the End Times' Conference", introduction to Symposium: Living in the End Times, in SFRA Review, Vol. 51 No. 2 (Spring 2021)
Invited Talks
- 20 May 2021: Guest Lecture (with Heather Alberro) on "Dystopia and Climate Change: Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013)", for IDE 520/580 Dystopia in Fiction and Film, Cappadocia University, Turkey
- 30 April 2021: Workshop on New Food/Blue Food (with Wythe Marschall and Josh Milburn) at World/Water Futures Part Two: Blue Futures, supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1 February 2021: In Vitro Meat: Ethics and Culture, supported by the Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre and ASLE-UKI
Conference Papers
- 15 - 17 September, 2021: "Kitchens of the Future: New Tech and New Food in Science Fiction Narratives". At Food and Communication: Discourses on the Future of Food, hosted virtually by the University of Ljubljana
- 26 July - August 6, 2021: "'Everything here survives at the mercy of his balance': Agriculture and Ideology in Closed-Loop Future Imaginaries". At ASLE 2021: EMERGENCE/Y, the Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, hosted virtually. Presentation viewable here
- 9 June 2021: "'Growgirls' and Cultured Eggs: Food Futures and Critical Race Feminism in Speculative Fiction from the Global South" with Esthie Hugo. At Just Food: Because It's Never Just Food, the Joint Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, the Canadian Association for Food Studies, and the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, hosted virtually by the Culinary Institute of America and New York University, USA. Presentation viewable here
- 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. Panel 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 July 2022
- Co-Editor, 'Animal Futurity' with Giulia Champion, a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, forthcoming Jan/Feb 2022
- Co-Editor, Symposium: Living in the End Times, in SFRA Review, Vol. 51 No. 2 (Spring 2021)
- Editorial Board Member, Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2020-2021
- Associate Editor, Exchanges, Vol 8 No 2 (2021): Special Issue: Climate Fiction
- Associate Editor, Exchanges, Vol 7 No 2 (2020): Special Issue: Cannibalism
Podcast Appearances
- LOL My Praxis, "Faanta and THE BORG", May 12, 2021
- Knowing Animals, "Cannibalism in speculative fiction with Nora Castle", April 5, 2021
- The Exchanges Discourse, "Conversation With... Associate Editors", Feb 4, 2021
Teaching
- 2019-2020: Seminar Tutor for EN122 Modes of Reading
Membership
Nora.Castle@warwick.ac.uk
Associate Fellow (AFHEA)
Supervisor:
Prof. Graeme Macdonald
Funded by:
Chancellor's International Scholarship
Office Hour:
By Appointment Only