Honorary Visiting Research Fellow
Professor Farah Mendlesohn is the co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, and the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy and co-wrote A Short History of Fantasy, all with Edward James. Her own works include Rhetorics of Fantasy and Diana Wynne Jones and the Children’s Fantastical Tradition. She now works at Staffordshire University as Associate Dean of Law, Policing and Forensics.
Publications
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 2009. A Short History of Fantasy. Middlesex University Press: London. ISBN: 978-1-904750-68-0. 285 pp. Award Nominations: British Science Fiction Award, Shortlisted by Children’s Literature Association
Farah Mendlesohn, 2009. The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children’s and Teen’s Science Fiction. McFarland Press: Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN: 0-786-4350-38. 334 pp. Award Nominations: Locus Recommended List; Hugo Award Nomination.
Farah Mendlesohn, 2008. Rhetorics of Fantasy, Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, Connecticut. ISBN: 0819568686. 336 pp. Awards: British Science Fiction Association, Non-Fiction. Award Nominations: Mythopoeic Award for Fantasy Scholarship (in 2009 and 2010—second year of eligibility); Locus Award, Best Related; Hugo Award, Best Related category; World Fantasy Award, Professional category.
Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. Diana Wynne Jones: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic Tradition. Routledge: New York. ISBN: 0415970237. 272 pp.
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, January 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN: 978-0-521-42959-7.
Farah Mendlesohn, 2009. On Joanna Russ. Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, Connecticut. ISBN: 978-0-8195-6902-8. 285 pp. Award Nominations: Locus Recommended List; Hugo Award Nomination.
Farah Mendlesohn and Graham Sleight, 2007. Foundation 100 (an anthology of original short science fiction stories). Science Fiction Foundation: London. ISSN: 0306-4964258. 120 pp. Several of the stories were picked up for “Year’s Best” anthologies.
Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. Glorifying Terrorism: an Anthology of Science Fiction Stories. Rackstraw Press: London. ISBN: 978-0-9554688-0-3. 268 pp.
Farah Mendlesohn, 2006. Polder: a Festschrift in Honour of John Clute and Judith Clute. Old Earth Press: Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN: 1-882968-34-4. 308 pp.
Farah Mendlesohn, Andrew M. Butler and Edward James, 2004. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature, 2nd Edition (expanded). Old Earth Press: Baltimore, Maryland. ISBN: 1-882968-31-X. 343 pp.
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 2003. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN: 978-052181-626-7. 295pp. Awards: the Introduction (by Farah Mendlesohn alone) was awarded the British Science Fiction Association prize for the Best Non-Fiction of 2004. The book was awarded the Hugo Award (Best Related category) in 2005.
Farah Mendlesohn and Andrew M. Butler, 2003. The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 3). Science Fiction Foundation: Reading. ISBN: 0-903007-03-7. 185pp.
Farah Mendlesohn, Andrew M. Butler and Edward James, 2000. Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 2). Science Fiction Foundation: Reading. ISBN: 0-903007-01-1. 185pp. Award Nominations: Hugo Award, Best Related category, 2001.
Farah Mendlesohn and Edward James, 1998. The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, 1). Science Fiction Foundation: Reading. ISBN: 07049-11922. 178pp.