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About Sherryl Vint
Sherryl Vint is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and the book series Science and Popular Culture. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow (2007), Animal Alterity (2010), The Wire (2013), Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed (2014); Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2020), and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative= Fiction (2021), as well as the co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011, with Mark Bould) and Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance and Utopia in Speculative TV (2022, with Jonathan Alexander). She has edited multiple books including, most recently, Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice (2026) and The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945 (2024). She is also a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Research and its Lifetime Achievement awards.
Sherryl Vint is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and the book series Science and Popular Culture. She is the author of Bodies of Tomorrow (2007), Animal Alterity (2010), The Wire (2013), Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed (2014); Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2020), and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative= Fiction (2021), as well as the co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011, with Mark Bould) and Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance and Utopia in Speculative TV (2022, with Jonathan Alexander). She has edited multiple books including, most recently, Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice (2026) and The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945 (2024). She is also a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Innovative Research and its Lifetime Achievement awards.
NBN Episodes hosted by Sherryl:
July 15, 2026
Inside Science Fiction Studies
In this episode, the editors and managing editor of Science Fiction Studies offer an inside look at the journal, discussing its place in the field and…