Rebecca Holden

Rebecca J. Holden is a fan and scholar of feminist, YA, and African American science fiction. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 and is currently a Principal Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has taught numerous university courses in professional writing, creative writing, composition, literature, and liberal studies. Holden has published essays and reviews on various science fiction writers in Foundation, Science Fiction Studies, Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, LA Review of Books as well as book chapters in The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, Fifty Key Figures in Cyberpunk Culture, Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism and Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler. Holden has served as a reviewer for Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, African American Review, the Masters of Science Fiction series from the University of Illinois Press, MIT Press, and Palgrave MacMillan.With Nisi Shawl, Holden co-edited and contributed to Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013). She also edited a collection of essays on WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention, titled Regenerating WisCon (2014).