Farah Mendlesohn

Farah Mendlesohn is a Hugo Award-winning British academic and writer on science fiction. In 2005 she won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James.

Mendlesohn is Reader in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature in the Media Department at Middlesex University and writes on the history of American religions and American science fiction. She received her D.Phil. in History from the University of York in 1997.

Her book Rhetorics of Fantasy won the BSFA award for best non-fiction book in 2009; the book was also nominated for both Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

In 2010 she was twice nominated for Hugo Awards in the Best Related Books category.

She was the editor of Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction from 2002 to 2007. She formerly was Reviews Editor of Quaker Studies.

Bibliography

As author

• A Short History of Fantasy (London: Middlesex University Press, 2009) with Edward James
• The Inter-galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 14) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009)
• Rhetorics of Fantasy (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008)
• Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition (Oxford: Routledge, 2005)
• Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)

As editor

• On Joanna Russ (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009)
• Glorifying Terrorism, Manufacturing Contempt: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction (London: Rackstraw Press, 2006)
• Polder: A Festschrift For John Clute and Judith Clute (Baltimore: Old Earth Books, 2006)
• The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) with Edward James
• The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2003) with Andrew Butler
• The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 1998) with Edward James

External links

• Farah Mendlesohn's web site