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Hilary Strang is an Associate Senior Instructional Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. She has been a full-time faculty member in the Master's program in the Humanities (MAPH) since 2009, serving in various capacities including director and senior lecturer. Her teaching and research primarily focus on science fiction, particularly feminist utopian narratives from the 1970s, as well as environmental science fiction. Strang explores themes of capitalism, collective life, and communal relationships within her scholarship. She has advised MAPH theses covering diverse topics such as solarpunk, femininity, and artificial intelligence. In addition to her academic work, she teaches a free college-credit humanities program called the Odyssey Project and is involved with Clearing School, a collective offering community-oriented classes. Strang also co-hosts a podcast discussing novels by authors like Kim Stanley Robinson and their themes of utopia.
Department of Philosophy