Keren Omry
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keren Omry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keren |
| FAMILY NAME | Omry |
| SIGNATURE | OMRY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8528-656X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Allotropes and Speculative Obligation
This article focuses on speculative fiction written by authors from Southern Africa to examine the nature and effect of genre in fiction from a non-European context. In particular, I claim that Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana), and Nick Wood (Zambia) turn to alternate history to move beyond the stasis of a utopia/dystopia binary. Thus, by creating new settings for both social and intimate interac…
Notes and Correspondence
P algrave SFF
"Something so deeply earned"
William Gibson's 2014 novel The Peripheral belongs to a body of worka that make the case for sympathy as an effective and affective social strategy. This article maps out a net of relations that links three key issues in respect to Gibson's novel: the strategy of metonymy, the exploration of sympathy, and the rethinking of realism. Despite the well-rehearsed laments about the bleak future and uncertain fate of the novel, in particular, and of the…
SFRA Awards Renamed
158 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) that focus on a specific genre of videogame, such as MMORPGs, virtual worlds, fighting games, etc. Send abstracts of 300-700 words to Dr. Megan Amber Condis and Dr. Mike Sell at by 31 March 2020. .—Megan Amber Condis, Texas Tech, and Mike Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania SFRA Awards Renamed. After the votes were cast and tallied, the SFRA formally changed the names of two of its awards. The aw…
Ozeki's Mirror Rooms
Research Article| July 01 2019 Ozeki's Mirror Rooms: Posthumanism and A Tale for the Time Being Keren Omry Keren Omry University of Haifa, Israel Keren Omry is Assistant Professor of American Studies and currently an honorary fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on theorizing the contemporary, science fiction and posthumanism, transnationalism and post-9/11 aesthetics, and Afric…
A Rich Repository
SFRA Awards 2017
Bodies and Digital Discontinuities
Bodies and Digital Discontinuities
Allotropes and Speculative Obligation
This article focuses on speculative fiction written by authors from Southern Africa to examine the nature and effect of genre in fiction from a non-European context. In particular, I claim that Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana), and Nick Wood (Zambia) turn to alternate history to move beyond the stasis of a utopia/dystopia binary. Thus, by creating new settings for both social and intimate interac…
Bodies and Digital Discontinuities
SFRA Awards 2017
A Rich Repository
Ozeki's Mirror Rooms
Research Article| July 01 2019 Ozeki's Mirror Rooms: Posthumanism and A Tale for the Time Being Keren Omry Keren Omry University of Haifa, Israel Keren Omry is Assistant Professor of American Studies and currently an honorary fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on theorizing the contemporary, science fiction and posthumanism, transnationalism and post-9/11 aesthetics, and Afric…
"Something so deeply earned"
William Gibson's 2014 novel The Peripheral belongs to a body of worka that make the case for sympathy as an effective and affective social strategy. This article maps out a net of relations that links three key issues in respect to Gibson's novel: the strategy of metonymy, the exploration of sympathy, and the rethinking of realism. Despite the well-rehearsed laments about the bleak future and uncertain fate of the novel, in particular, and of the…
SFRA Awards Renamed
158 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) that focus on a specific genre of videogame, such as MMORPGs, virtual worlds, fighting games, etc. Send abstracts of 300-700 words to Dr. Megan Amber Condis and Dr. Mike Sell at by 31 March 2020. .—Megan Amber Condis, Texas Tech, and Mike Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania SFRA Awards Renamed. After the votes were cast and tallied, the SFRA formally changed the names of two of its awards. The aw…
Notes and Correspondence
P algrave SFF
Allotropes and Speculative Obligation
This article focuses on speculative fiction written by authors from Southern Africa to examine the nature and effect of genre in fiction from a non-European context. In particular, I claim that Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana), and Nick Wood (Zambia) turn to alternate history to move beyond the stasis of a utopia/dystopia binary. Thus, by creating new settings for both social and intimate interac…
Computer Science (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Library science (2 works)