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Shelley Streeby
Shelley Streeby is a jointly appointed professor in Literature and Ethnic Studies at UCSD. She is a Co-Founder of the Speculative Environmental Futures Collective, the director of Graduate Studies for Ethnic Studies and the former Director of Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop.
She was also one of the Co-organizers of UCSD’s 2016 conference Shaping Change held in honor of Octavia E. Butler’s legacy. Her recent publications include Keywords for Comics Studies (2021) and Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism. (2018) Shelley’s teaching and research interests are Environmentalisms and Ecologies; Speculative Futures and World-Making; Science Studies; Feminist and Queer Theories; Social Movements and Cultures; Latinx and Hemispheric American Studies; Media Studies and Digital Humanities; and Visual Culture.
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Christopher Perreira
Christopher Perreira is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego. His most recent publication is Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State (2023). He is also the co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal American Studies (AMSJ) and a co-founder of the Speculative Environmental Futures Collective.
Chris’s research and teaching interests include Race and Medicine, Chicanx-Latinx Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Speculative Fiction, Environmental Racism/Justice, and Critical Prison Studies.
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Joo Ok Kim
Joo Ok Kim is an associate professor of Literature at UCSD. She is also a co-founder of the Speculative Environmental Futures Collective. Her research and teaching interests include transpacific critique, literatures and cultures of the Korean War, and US multiethnic literature and culture.
Joo Ok’s recent publications include Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War (2022) and “Memoir.” Keywords for Comics Studies (2021).