91福利

PhD, English and Comparative Literary Studies, 91福利

MLitt, Modernities: Literature, Theory and Culture, University of Glasgow

BA, English and East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania

Thesis Title

Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction

• Runner-Up for the Graduate Association for Food Studies's

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Publications

Journal Articles

• in , Vol. 62 No. 2 (2022) [Open Access]
  • Honourable Mention for the 2023 (given for the year鈥檚 best critical essay-length work published in a peer-reviewed academic journal)
• in Sino-Platonic Papers
• in the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs

Book Chapters

• co-authored with , "Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal 'Uplift' in Adam Roberts鈥檚 叠锚迟别&辩耻辞迟;, in Animals and Science Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, ed. Nora Castle and , 2024
• "Nonhuman Entanglements in Adam Roberts鈥檚 Science Fiction: 叠锚迟别 (2014) and By Light Alone (2012)", in , Boydell & Brewer, ed. John Parham, 2023
• co-authored with Esthie HugoLink opens in a new window, in , Palgrave Macmillan, ed. Sherryl Vint and S眉meyra Buran, 2022
• in , Routledge, ed. Giulia ChampionLink opens in a new window, 2021

Book and Media Reviews

• for Vol. 52 No. 3 (Summer 2022)
• for Vol. 51 No. 1 (Winter 2021)
  • Winner of the , awarded for the best review in the SFRA Review
• , a review of Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier for
  • by Patricio Tapia for Paniko.cl

Edited Collections

• , co-edited with Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott, Routledge, forthcoming 2024
• , co-edited with Giulia ChampionLink opens in a new window, Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Editorial Introductions

Invited Talks

• 11 September 2023: 鈥淚n Vitro Meat and Science Fiction.鈥� At 鈥淧romissory Meatscapes of Mosa Meat & Co: The Political Ecologies of Urbanized Protein鈥�, part of the project, hosted at University of Amsterdam鈥檚 Centre for Urban Studies

• 20 May 2021: Guest Lecture (with Heather Alberro) on "Dystopia and Climate Change: Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013)", for IDE 520/580 Dystopia in Fiction and Film, Cappadocia University, Turkey
• 30 April 2021: Workshop on New Food/Blue Food (with Wythe Marschall and Josh Milburn) at , supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• 1 February 2021: , supported by the and

Conference Papers and Roundtables

• 15 - 19 August 2023: "'If you don鈥檛 stop doing that, you鈥檒l be toast': The Toaster as Disruptive Figure in
  Sf Imaginaries". At the 2023 Joint SFRA and GFF Conference: Disruptive Imaginations, hosted at TU Dresden, Germany
• 15 - 19 August 2023: Roundtable 鈥淚n/Out of Time: Meditations on Disruption鈥� [as a director of the ]. At the 2023 Joint SFRA and GFF Conference: Disruptive Imaginations, hosted at TU Dresden, Germany
• 15 - 19 August 2023: Roundtable: "SF on the Market: Advice on Pursuing an SF Studies Career from Early Career Researchers" [as an awardee]. At the 2023 Joint SFRA and GFF Conference: Disruptive Imaginations, hosted at TU Dresden, Germany
• 31 May - 3 June 2023: "Future Imaginaries of Agriculture and the City". At the 2023 ASFS/AFHVS Conference: Knowing Food: Insights from Around the Table, hosted at Boston University, USA
• 10 November 2022: "Science Fiction and the Kitchen of the Future". At the IAS Accolade Research Exchange, hosted in hybrid format by IAS, the 91福利, UK
• 27 June - 1 July 2022: (with Kate Heffner) "'Push-Button Magic': Gendered Labor and the Techno-Utopian Kitchen". At the Science Fiction Research Association Conference: Futures from the Margins, hosted in hybrid format by CoFutures, the University of Oslo, Norway
• 30 June - 1 July 2022: (with Liza B. Bauer) . At the Contemporary Research in Speculative Fiction Conference, hosted in hybrid format by the University of Liverpool, UK. Presentation viewable .
• 16 - 18 May 2022: "Non-Human Entanglements in Adam Roberts's 叠锚迟别 (2014) and By Light Alone (2012)". At , hosted in hybrid format by Cappadocia University, Turkey
• 15 - 17 September, 2021: "Kitchens of the Future: New Tech and New Food in Science Fiction Narratives". At , hosted virtually by the University of Ljubljana
• 26 July - August 6, 2021: . At ASLE 2021: EMERGENCE/Y, the Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, hosted virtually. Presentation viewable
• 9 June 2021: with Esthie HugoLink opens in a new window. At , the Joint Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, the Canadian Association for Food Studies, and the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, hosted virtually by the Culinary Institute of America and New York University, USA. Presentation viewable
• 11 December, 2020: "Their Tradition is Our Innovation: Insect-Eating and the Future of Food". , hosted virtually by Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
• 24 September, 2020 (reconfigured, stand-alone panel due to in-person conference cancellation): "Alternative Foodways and Alternative Futures: The Politics of Meat-Eating in The Carhullan Army and Moon of the Crusted Snow". At , 11th Annual Conference of the GFF, hosted virtually by the University of Augsburg, Germany. Panel recording available
• 10-12 September, 2020: **CANCELLED DUE TO COVID19** "Alternative Foodways and Alternative Futures: Food and Politics in Contemporary SF". At , 11th Annual Conference of the GFF, hosted at the University of Augsburg, Germany
• 6 February, 2020: Poster Presentation (of Dissertation Research). At 'Food Encounters: A Network Conference'Link opens in a new window, hosted at the 91福利, UK
• 7-9 November, 2019: "Which came first, the broiler chicken or the Anthropocene?: Meat Imaginaries in Contemporary Speculative Fiction", At , hosted at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
• 1-5 July, 2019: "Meat Culture/Cultured Meat: Food Futures in Contemporary Climate Fiction" At "", 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Europe, hosted at the Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
• 11-13 April, 2019: "Techno-Utopia and the Future of Food in The Blind Pig." At , hosted at the University of Porto, Portugal
• 17th November, 2018: "'Ethical' Foodways: Justifying Cannibalism in Contemporary Speculative Fiction." At ''Bites Here and There'': Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism across Disciplines, hosted at the 91福利, UK

Event Organisation

• Co-Organizer, Un/Building the Future: The Country and the City in the AnthropoceneLink opens in a new window, hosted at the 91福利, 15 & 16 June 2023
• Conference Convening Committee, , a virtual interdisciplinary conference supported by Cappadocia University, 13-15 January 2021
• Co-Organizer, Flows and Floods: Changing Environments and CulturesLink opens in a new window, a one-day interdisciplinary conference funded by the HRC Doctoral Fellowship, 22 February 2020
• Session Convener, Departmental Reading Group sessionLink opens in a new window on the Anthropocene from non-white perspectives, 29 January 2020
• Co-Organizer, 15th Annual English Postgraduate SymposiumLink opens in a new window, a one-day conference showcasing the work of the 91福利's postgraduates in English and Comparative Literary Studies and related disciplines, 23 May 2019

Editorial Roles

• see also Edited Collections above
• Co-Editor, 'Food Futures' with Graeme MacdonaldLink opens in a new window, a special issue of , July 2022
• Co-Editor, 'Animal Futurity' with Giulia ChampionLink opens in a new window, a special issue of , Spring 2022
• Co-Editor, , in , Vol. 51 No. 2 (Spring 2021)
• , , 2020-2021
• Associate Editor, , Vol 8 No 2 (2021):
• Associate Editor, , Vol 7 No 2 (2020):

Podcast Appearances

• LOL My Praxis, , May 12, 2021
• Knowing Animals, , April 5, 2021
• The Exchanges Discourse, , Feb 4, 2021

Teaching

• 2022-2023: Seminar Tutor for EN2F5/EN3F5: Alternative LifeworldsLink opens in a new window
• 2021-2022; 2022-2023: Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant for IL97 Habitability in the Universe
• 2019-2020: Seminar Tutor for EN122 Modes of ReadingLink opens in a new window

Membership

• Environmental Humanities NetworkLink opens in a new window
• (2021-2023)
• 91福利 Food GRPLink opens in a new window
• 91福利 Habitability GRPLink opens in a new window
• (2022-2023)
• (2021-2023)
• (2018 Cohort)

Nora.Castle@warwick.ac.uk

IAS Early Career Fellow

Associate Fellow (AFHEA)

Supervisor:
Prof. Graeme Macdonald

Funded by:
Chancellor's International Scholarship

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Office Hour:
By appointment only