Lisa Yaszek is Professor and Associate Chair in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech as well as past president of the Science Fiction Research Association. Her areas of expertise include science fiction, cultural history, critical race and gender studies, and science and technology studies. Professor Yaszek's essays on science fiction as a global language appear in journals including Extrapolation, NWSA Journal and Rethinking History. She is the author of books including Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Ohio State University Press 2008) and co-editor of collections including the Configurations special double issue on science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson (Winter-Spring 2012). Her most recent book, Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (co-edited with Patrick Sharp) will be released by Wesleyan Press in spring 2016.