RK Rugg
Reviews
Reviews
Presentation at the Northeast Popular Culture Association, "Animated and Anthropomorphic: A Survey of the Golem in Children's/YA Media." presented at the NEPCA 2023 Conference.
Review of Mother Android, directed by Mattson Tomlin for the magazine Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction Volume 52.5, number 145, 2023
First Reader for Flash Point SF (speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length).
I returned to the Midwest in March 2023 (at least virtually) for the Midwest Popular Culture Association's 2nd annual Virtual Graduate Student Mini Conference, where I presented during Saturday's TIPS panel...Teaching Ideas for Popular Culture Studies, revisiting my paper on "Teaching The Hobbit at the Middle-School Level in a Post-Jacksonian World."
2022
Presentation at the Northeast Popular Culture Association, "Teaching The Hobbit at the Middle-School Level" presented at the NEPCA 2022 Conference as a part of the Tolkien track for this year's gathering.
2021
Review of Lost in Transmission: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Desirina Boskovich in SFRA Review Vol. 51, No. 3 (Summer 2021), an open access journal published four times a year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Review of Can You Sign My Tentacle? by Brandon O'Brien, on NetGalley
Presentation at the Popular Culture Association 2021 National Conference: "A Sense of Place: Portrayals of the Reservation in Contemporary Native American Speculative Fiction"
Presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association annual conference on "A Sense of Place: Portrayals of the Reservation in Native American Speculative Fiction"
2020
Served as a juror for the 2020 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants program sponsored by the Speculative Literature Foundation.
October 30, 2020: Presentation at the 5th annual Vampire Academic Conference on "Blood Brothers: Comic-book Influences on Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot"
October 24, 2020: Presentation at the New England Popular Culture Association annual conference on "Kid Stuff: The Younging Down of Adult SF Literature"
Review of Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem. This review was commissioned by one of the speculative fiction academic publications, but it didn't ever run, and I was delighted to be able to place it with my friend Jennie Ivins at FantasyFaction.
2019
Presentaton of Putting the "I" in "SciFi": First-Person POV in SF Novels, 1953-2019 at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 2019
Review of Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski for the magazine Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction
Review of Mother Android, directed by Mattson Tomlin for the magazine Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction Volume 52.5, number 145, 2023
First Reader for Flash Point SF (speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length).
I returned to the Midwest in March 2023 (at least virtually) for the Midwest Popular Culture Association's 2nd annual Virtual Graduate Student Mini Conference, where I presented during Saturday's TIPS panel...Teaching Ideas for Popular Culture Studies, revisiting my paper on "Teaching The Hobbit at the Middle-School Level in a Post-Jacksonian World."
2022
Presentation at the Northeast Popular Culture Association, "Teaching The Hobbit at the Middle-School Level" presented at the NEPCA 2022 Conference as a part of the Tolkien track for this year's gathering.
2021
Review of Lost in Transmission: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Desirina Boskovich in SFRA Review Vol. 51, No. 3 (Summer 2021), an open access journal published four times a year by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Review of Can You Sign My Tentacle? by Brandon O'Brien, on NetGalley
Presentation at the Popular Culture Association 2021 National Conference: "A Sense of Place: Portrayals of the Reservation in Contemporary Native American Speculative Fiction"
Presentation at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association annual conference on "A Sense of Place: Portrayals of the Reservation in Native American Speculative Fiction"
2020
Served as a juror for the 2020 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants program sponsored by the Speculative Literature Foundation.
October 30, 2020: Presentation at the 5th annual Vampire Academic Conference on "Blood Brothers: Comic-book Influences on Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot"
October 24, 2020: Presentation at the New England Popular Culture Association annual conference on "Kid Stuff: The Younging Down of Adult SF Literature"
Review of Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem. This review was commissioned by one of the speculative fiction academic publications, but it didn't ever run, and I was delighted to be able to place it with my friend Jennie Ivins at FantasyFaction.
2019
Presentaton of Putting the "I" in "SciFi": First-Person POV in SF Novels, 1953-2019 at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 2019
Review of Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski for the magazine Foundation, The International Review of Science Fiction