Steve Asselin

Title: Instructor
Email: s.asselin@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:
Steve Asselin received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University and has since taught at Queen’s, the University of Alberta, and Brandon University. His research focuses on the intersections of the environment with literature, especially disaster fiction, climate change, and Gothic ecology. Current research projects include nineteenth-century climate change fiction, and racism in apocalyptic fiction. 

Teaching Areas:
Nineteenth-Century Literature; Ecocriticism; Representations of Disaster and Apocalypse; Genre Fiction, especially the Gothic, Science-Fiction, and Utopia and Dystopia.

Publications:

“The Providential Genocides: Racial Survival and Acts of God in Fin-de-Siècle Apocalyptic Fiction”. “Religion and Victorian Popular Literature and Culture,” a special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, Naomi Hetherington and Clare Stainthorp, eds.; Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 2023. 

“Un climat de compétition : le changement climatique comme économie politique dans la fiction spéculative, 1889-1915” Fictions climatiques, a special issue of ReS Futurae, edited by Aurélie Huz et Irène Langlet, no. 21, June 2023.

“Still Marked on Many Maps: Gothic Treatments of Landscape in Disaster Fiction.” “Gothic Ecologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present,” a special issue of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Katharina Boehm and Stephan Karschay, eds., vol. 27, no. 2, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, July 2021.

“Apocalypse, Inc.: Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle SF.” Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction, a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review, edited by Hugh O’Connell and David M. Higgins, Ann Arbor, Michigan State University Press, May 2019.

“‘So Very Natural an Occurrence’: Engendering Nature’s Antagonism in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.” Gender & Environment in Science Fiction, edited by Christy Tidwell and Bridgitte Barclay, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2019.

“A Climate of Competition: Climate Change as Political Economy in Speculative Fiction, 1889-1915.” Science Fiction and the Climate Crisis, a special issue of Science Fiction Studies, edited by Veronica Hollinger and Brent Bellamy, vol. 48, no. 3, November 2018.