Roslyn Nicole Smith - Department of English

 

Education

B.A. 1995, Spelman College
M.A. 2007, Georgia State University
Ph.D 2019, Georgia State University 

Select Publications

• “The Womanist Speculative Archetype in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s ‘Evidence.’” Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction. Eds. Lisa Yaszek, Sonja Fritzsche, Keren Omry, Wendy Gay Pearson. Routledge, 2023.
• “Zami as a Speculative Womanist Guide to Self Actualization in Octavia Butler’s Dawn.” New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers. Ed. LaToya Jefferson-James, Ph.D. Lexington Books, 2022.
• “Lieutenant Nyota Uhura: A Brief Remembrance.” Aunt Chloe, 2022.
• “The Oankali Approach to Remembering in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood.” College Language Association Journal, Special Issue on Afrofuturism, 2022.
• “‘Moving Against the Speed of Time.’ Diana Adesola Mafe. Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV.” Extrapolation 61(3):352, 2020.