Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction by Sarah E Truman

Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction by Sarah E Truman

This wide-ranging and timely open access collection of essays is ideal for readers who want to incorporate speculative fiction into their teaching and research across disciplines.

The terms speculation and speculative fictioning are increasingly used in education and interdisciplinary research methods to describe approaches grounded in asking “what if” questions that can unsettle the assumed certainties of the past, present, and future.

An Introduction by editor Sarah E. Truman and a Foreword by Steven Shaviro describe what speculative fiction is and examine its critical implications, offering a theoretical framework for understanding its applications to research and pedagogy. The chapters that follow explore these modes of thinking in practice by drawing on speculative fictions to examine disciplinary concerns related to climate justice, disability justice, racial justice, prison abolition, genetics, AI, the future of work, educational technologies, and gender. Through reflective narratives and critical analyses, twenty-five international contributors engage literary works by authors such as Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and N. K. Jemisin, alongside films and television series including Gattaca, The Matrix, Severance, and Star Trek, connecting these texts to their own research and thinking. Each chapter also includes discussion and writing prompts for use in classrooms and research seminars.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Melbourne.

Research and Teaching with Speculative Fictions is an imaginative transdisciplinary collection that demonstrates the power of how speculative stories can unsettle assumptions, spark new ways of knowing, and open possibilities for more just and relational futures on pressing social, political, and ethical issues, from AI and genomics to indigenous architectureAn invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and students alike.

Sarah E. Truman is Associate Professor in English literary education, cultural studies, and arts methods at the University of Melbourne

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ISBN 13	9781350557727
ISBN 10	1350557722
Title	Research and Teaching with Speculative Fiction
Author	Sarah E Truman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2026-08-20
Number of pages	192
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