Grace Dillon | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Professor, Author |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | PhD in Literary Studies, focus on 16th-century literature |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Portland State University |
| Notable works | Walking the Clouds,Hive of Dreams,The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms |
Grace L. Dillon is an American academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program,in the School of Gender,Race,and Nations,at Portland State University. [1] [2] She received her PhD in literary studies with an emphasis in sixteenth-century literature,and her recent research regards science fiction studies. [3]
Similar to the concept of Afrofuturism that was created in 1993,Dillon is best known for coining the term Indigenous Futurism,which is a movement consisting of art,literature and other forms of media which express Indigenous perspectives of the past,present and future in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres. Although Grace Dillon first coined the term “Indigenous Futurisms" in 2003,the first publication of its kind with a focus on Indigenous Futurisms,Walking the Clouds, was not published until 2012. [4]
Dillon is the editor of Walking the Clouds:An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction,which is the first anthology of Indigenous science fiction short stories,published by the University of Arizona Press in 2012. [5] [6] [7] She organized the collection with the following sub-genres:Native Slipstream,Contact,Indigenous Science and Sustainability,Native Apocalypse,and Returning to Ourselves. [6] The anthology includes works from Gerald Vizenor,Leslie Marmon Silko,Sherman Alexie,William Sanders and Stephen Graham Jones. [6] The anthology brings together multiple stories from authors who are Native American,First Nations,Aboriginal Australian,and New Zealand Maori. [6]
Previously,Dillon has edited Hive of Dreams:Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest,which was published in 2003 by Oregon State University Press. [8] [9] This is an anthology of science fiction from writers living in the Pacific Northwest,and features works from authors such as Greg Bear,Octavia Butler,and Molly Gloss. [8] She also coedited The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms with Taryne Jade Taylor,Isiah Lavender III,and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. [10] This book was published in 2023 by Routledge. [10] The book dives into different forms of futurisms,such as Latinx Futurisms,Afrofuturisms,and Indigenous Futurisms. [10]
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