Special Collections Research Fellows Speaker Series: Tp Coughlin, 2023 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow

Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is pleased to host an ongoing series of lectures by traveling fellows whose research and expertise include feminist science fiction, Oregon lesbian intentional communities, the novelist Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian political movements, as well as print and print culture. Talks are free, open to the public and held virtually on Zoom. More information, including applications for future fellowships, is available on SCUA’s website here.

March's discussion features Tp Coughlin, 2023 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow.     

Tp Coughlin is an exchange lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Mainz Germany, a contingent lecturer at Sonoma State University, and a PhD candidate at UC Davis. Their dissertation examines speculative discourses of genderlessness during the 1970s and '80s in fiction, political writing, and economic theory.