May 17, 2011

BCU Writing Professor’s Work Publishes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Adam Frisch, Ph.D., professor of writing and English and department chairperson at Briar Cliff University, recently had a chapter published in The Postnational Fantasy.

A collection of essays published by McFarland and Company, London, 2011, The Postnational Fantasy offers critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy.

Dr. Frisch’s chapter, titled “Forms of Compromise: The Interaction of Humanity, Technology and Landscape in Ken MacLeod’s Night Sessions,” discusses postcolonialism and cosmopolitics within the realms of science fiction and reality, nationalism, ethnicity issues, national and transnational discourse.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,150 students from 29 states and 11 countries. Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care, compassion and service. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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