Articles and chapters in edited books - Refereed articles in academic journals - Textbooks - Monographs and scholarly editions - Keynote addresses and invited lectures - Conferences organised - Other research activity

Articles and chapters in edited books

Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 2011 (forthcoming). 'Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century', in The Cambridge History of the English Novel, edited by Robert L. Caserio Jr. and Clement Hawes. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 872-886.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2009. 'Fiction, 1926-1949', in The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, ed. Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 52-61.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. 'A Novel of Colonisation: Tricia Sullivan's Dreaming in Smoke', in The Arthur C. Clarke Award: A Critical Anthology, ed. Paul Kincaid with Andrew M. Butler. Serendip Foundation: Daventry, pp. 153-162.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2005. 'Iain M. Banks's Excession', in A Companion to Science Fiction, ed. David Seed. Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 556-566.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2002. 'Science Fiction in the Academies of History and Literature; Or, History and the Use of Science Fiction', in Science Fiction, Canonization, Marginalization and the Academy, eds. George Slusser and Gary Westfahl. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, pp. 119-125.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2002. 'Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority', in Harry Potter and the Ivory Tower: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon, ed. Lana A. Whited. University of Missouri Press: Columbus, Missouri, pp. 159-181.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2001. 'Surpassing the Love of Vampires: Or Why (and How) a Queer Reading of the Buffy/ Willow Relationship is Denied', in Fighting the Forces: Essays on the Meaning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ed. David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford, pp. 45-60.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2000. 'Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in the Early Works of Robert A. Heinlein', in Speaking Science Fiction, ed. Andy Sawyer and David Seed. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 144-157.

Farah Mendlesohn and Nichole Matthews, 2000. 'The Cartesian Novum of Third Rock From the Sun', in Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, ed. Elyce Helford. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford, pp. 41-60.

Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 1996. 'Fiction and the Future' in The Knowledge Base of Futures Studies, Vol. 1. Foundations, ed. Richard Slaughter. The Futures Studies Centre: Kew, Victoria, Australia, pp. 148-61.

Farah Mendlesohn, 1996. 'Diana Wynne Jones' in The St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, ed. David Pringle.St James Press: Detroit, Michigan, pp. 311-12.

Refereed articles in academic Journals

Farah Mendlesohn, 2009. 'Now Let us Put Away Childish Things: Games, Fantasy and the Elided Fantasy of Childhood', Extrapolation, vol. 50, No. 1, Spring, pp. 33-44.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2009, 'The Campaign for Shiny Futures', The Horn Book, Vol. 85, No. 2, March-April, pp. 155-161

Farah Mendlesohn, 2004. 'Conjunctions 39 and Liminal Fantasy', The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 228-239.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2004. 'Is There Any Such Thing as Children's SF: A Position Piece', The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature. Vol. 28, No. 2, April, pp. 284-313.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2004. 'Cognitive Development, Science Fiction and Science Fiction for Children, or 'Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny?' ', New York Review of Science Fiction 191 (Vol. 16, No. 11), July 2004.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2002. 'Towards a Taxonomy of Fantasy', Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 173-87.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2001. 'Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority', Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 287-308.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2000. 'Denominational Differences in Quaker Relief', The Journal of Religious History, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 180-195.

Farah Mendlesohn, 1999. 'The Ethics of Friends' Relief Work in Republican Spain', Quaker History, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 1-23.

Farah Mendlesohn, 1994. 'Gender, Power, and Conflict Resolution: 'Sub-Committee' by Zenna Henderson', Extrapolation, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 120-129.

Farah Mendlesohn, 1991. 'Women in SF: Six American SF Writers between 1960 and 1985', Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction 53, Autumn 1991, pp. 53-69.

Textbooks

Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 2009. A Short History of Fantasy. Middlesex University Press: London. ISBN: 978-1-904750-68-0. 285 pp. Award Nominations: British Science Fiction Award, Shortlisted by Children's Literature Association.

Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, January 2012.The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.ISBN: 978-0-521-42959-7.

Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 2003. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN: 978-052181-626-7. 295pp. Awards: the Introduction (by Farah Mendlesohn alone) was awarded the British Science Fiction Association prize for the Best Non-Fiction of 2004. The book was awarded the Hugo Award (Best Related category) in 2005.

Monographs and scholarly editions

Farah Mendlesohn, 2009. The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teen's Science Fiction. McFarland Press: Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN: 0-786-4350-38. 334 pp. Award Nominations: Locus Recommended List; Hugo Award Nomination.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2008. Rhetorics of Fantasy, Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, Connecticut. ISBN: 0819568686. 336 pp. Awards: British Science Fiction Association, Non-Fiction. Award Nominations: Mythopoeic Award for Fantasy Scholarship (in 2009 and 2010 - second year of eligibility); Locus Award, Best Related; Hugo Award, Best Related category; World Fantasy Award, Professional category.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition. Routledge: New York. ISBN: 0415970237. 272 pp.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2002. Quaker Relief in the Spanish Civil War. Edwin Mellen Press: Lampeter. ISBN: 0-7734-7276-2. 243 pp.

Keynote addresses and invited lectures

Invited Speaker: 'National characters in Quaker and pacifist/ anti-militaristic publications for children between the first and second world wars' at the conference, 'Putting the figure on the map: imagining sameness and difference for children', Princeton University, September 2013.

Keynote Speaker, 'What is this 'child' you speak of?', National Conference on Children's Literature, Roehampton, May 2012.

Keynote, 'Peake and the Fuzzy Set of Fantasy', Mervyn Peake conference, Chichester, June 2011

Keynote, 'Ethical and Political Considerations in World-Building' at 'World-Building: The Logic of Science and Science Fiction', Oslo, May 2011

Keynote, 'Escaping the Influence of Narnia', at 'Fremde Aufbruch in Welten', University of Hamburg, April 2011

'Escaping the Influence of Narnia', University Library series, University of Southern Florida, March 2011

'Frances Hardinge's Gullstruck Island, the language of genocide and the ridiculous', Homerton College Cambridge, 16 November 2010.

Keynote, 'Genre as a State of Mind', at 'Mensageiros das Estrelas', Lisbon, 4-6 November 2010.

'Gendering the Fantastic', at the IBBY conference, Roehampton, 2010.

'Now Let us Put Away Childish Things', Children's Literature Association Conference, Chicago, 2008.

'With Meccano to the Stars' at the IBBY conference, Roehampton, 2006.

Keynote, 'Children Reading Science Fiction', at Swecon, Stockholm, July 2006.

Keynote, 'Intrusion Fantasy and the Aural Fantastic', the Fantasy Symposium, Liverpool John Moores University, 15 October 2005.

Invited speaker at Antigonish University, Nova Scotia, March 2005.

Keynote, 'Cognitive development, science fiction and science fiction for children, or 'Does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny?'' Science Fiction Research Association Conference, Guelph, Canada, June 2003.

''Diana Wynne Jones: Archer's Goon and Making the Mundane Fantastical', the Children's Literature MA at Hollins College, Roanoke, University, June 2003.

'There's no such thing as children's science fiction', Cardiff at children's fiction seminar for US students, June 2003.

Invited speaker to William Penn School, Philadelphia, July 2001.

Keynote speaker on twentieth-century Quaker history at joint gathering of Quaker Historians and Archivists, the Quakers in Higher Education and the Quaker Teachers Association, Earlham, June 2000.

Conferences organised

Director of Exhibits for the Science Fiction World Convention in London in 2014.

2009 Programme Director for Anticipation, World Science Fiction Convention, Montreal.

2009 Co-organiser with Dr Charlie Butler of a conference on the writing of Diana Wynne Jones, University of the West of England, Bristol.

2007, 2008, 2009 Three Science Fiction Foundation Critical Masterclasses (Summers, Liverpool University).

2006 Chair, UK Easter Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow.

2004-2007 Programme Organiser: International Association of the Fantastic of the Arts (which runs a largeannual conference)

2002-2004 Division Head (Children's Literature) of the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts.

2005 Academic Track and Literary Tracks at the World Science Fiction Convention, held in Glasgow.

2004 'A Commonwealth of Science Fiction', University of Liverpool, co-organiser with Dr. Andrew M. Butler and Mr. Andy Sawyer.

2002 British organiser, with Dr. Andrew M. Butler, of the (American) Science Fiction Research Association's annual conference, held in New Lanark, Scotland, June 28-July 1.

2002 'Children's Literature and the Fantastic', Reading University, with Dr. N. Moody (Liverpool John Moores).

2001 'British Science Fiction since 1945', University of Liverpool, co-organiser (with Dr. Andrew M. Butler and Mr. Andy Sawyer).

2001 'Television and the Fantastic', Liverpool John Moores University, with Dr. N. Moody (Liverpool John Moores)

2000 Day seminar on the Science Fiction Publishing Industry, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

2000 Symposium on Terry Pratchett, Quaker International House, London.

1997 Babylon 5 conference, University College of Ripon and York, St. John.

Other research activity

Farah Mendlesohn, 2009. On Joanna Russ. Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, Connecticut. ISBN: 978-0-8195-6902-8. 285 pp. Award Nominations: Locus Recommended List; Hugo Award Nomination.

Farah Mendlesohn and Graham Sleight, 2007. Foundation 100 (an anthology of original short science fiction stories). Science Fiction Foundation: London. ISSN: 0306-4964258. 120 pp. Several of the stories were picked up for 'Year's Best' anthologies.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. Glorifying Terrorism:an Anthology of Science Fiction Stories. Rackstraw Press: London. ISBN: 978-0-9554688-0-3. 268 pp.

Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. Polder: a Festschrift in Honour of John Clute and Judith Clute. Old Earth Press: Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN: 1-882968-34-4. 308 pp.

Farah Mendlesohn, Andrew M. Butler and Edward James, 2004. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature, 2nd Edition (expanded). Old Earth Press: Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN: 1-882968-31-X. 343 pp.

Farah Mendlesohn and Andrew M. Butler, 2003. The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 3). Science Fiction Foundation: Reading. ISBN: 0-903007-03-7. 185pp.

Farah Mendlesohn, Andrew M. Butler and Edward James, 2000. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 2). Science Fiction Foundation: Reading. ISBN: 0-903007-01-1. 185pp. Award Nominations: Hugo Award, Best Related category, 2001.

Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 1998. The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 1). Science Fiction Foundation: Reading. ISBN: 07049-11922. 178pp.