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
- "'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
Nora.Castle@warwick.ac.uk
Associate Fellow (AFHEA)
Supervisor:
Prof. Graeme Macdonald
Funded by:
Chancellor's International Scholarship
Office Hour:
By Appointment Only