About the Author

Heather Masri (Ph.D. New York University) is a full-time faculty member and former assistant dean in the General Studies Program at New York University, an interdisciplinary liberal arts program with an emphasis on primary texts. Her academic specialty is eighteenth century English literature, but she is a generalist with broad, interdisciplinary interests whose courses include literature, art, music, and film. She has taught writing intensive courses on literature and critical theory, including courses on representations of technology and the history and themes of science fiction. She is a member of the Science Fiction Research Association, and has been teaching science fiction at New York University since 1990.