Farah Mendlesohn
Reader, Creative and Media Writing and Publishing and Media
Department: School of Arts and Education
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)7799 771309
- E-mail: F.Mendlesohn@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
- BA History
- MA Peace Studies
- PhD History
Research Interests
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Children's literature
- Communities of literature
Current projects:
Geoffrey Trease and the teaching of history
An introduction to Children's Fantasy Literature
Teaching Interests
- Non-fiction writing
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Children's literature
- Genre publishing
Biography
Curriculum/subject area
Media
Current work
Reader:
Publications
Authored books:
- Diana Wynne Jones and the Children's Fantastical Tradition (Routledge, 2005)
- Rhetorics of Fantasy(Wesleyan University Press, 2007).
Edited books:
- Terry Pratchett, Guilty of Literature (2000)
- Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2004)
- On Joanna Russ (2009).
Articles and chapters in edited books:
'Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority' in The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter.
Referred articles:
'Rhetorics of Fantasy', Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (2003)
Editorships Foundation, the International Review of Science Fiction, 2001-2007
Honours and Prizes
- Hugo Award 2005
- BSFA Award 2004
- President of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts 2007-2010
- Chair of the Science Fiction Foundation, 1998-2004
