Dr Mark Bould

• Position:Professor of Film and Literature
• Department:Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
• Email:Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Recipent of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award (2019)

Winner of the 2016 SFRA Pilgrim Lifetime Achievement Award for Critical Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy. 

Author of: The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021); Solaris (2014); Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012); The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2009); and Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005).

Co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011).

Editor of: Africa SF (Paradoxa 22; 2013); the Gwyneth Jones special section in Femspec 5.1 (2004).

Co-editor of: The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2024); This is Not a Science Fiction Textbook (2024); M. John Harrison: Critical Essays (2020); Science Fiction Film and Television 11.2 (2018), the Women in Science Fiction Media: Celebrating Mary Shelley special issue; SF Now (Paradoxa 26; 2014); Neo-Noir (2009); Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009); The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009); Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009); Science Fiction Studies 102 (2007), the Afrofuturism special issue; Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M. John Harrison (2005); and Science Fiction Studies 91 (2003), the British Sf Boom special issue.

Founding co-editor of: Science Fiction Film and Television journal (2007–2017); and Studies in Global Science Fiction​ monograph series (2015–2024).

Co-editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory (2001–5). 

Advisory editor monograph series: Mass Markets: Studies in Franchise Cultures (2021–); Science and Popular Culture (2014–); Transmedia (2014–2025); and Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies (2006–).

Advisory editor journals: The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tales (2022–); Science Fiction Film and Television (2018–); Comparative Literature and Culture (2017–); Monstrum (2016–); Deletion: The Online Journal in Science Fiction Studies (2013–); Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media (2012–); The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction (2012–); Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres (2008–); Extrapolation (2008–); The Horror Journal: The International Journal of Horror Studies (2006–8); Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory (2005–);  and Science Fiction Studies (2002–).

Area of expertise

Science fiction film, literature and television. The Anthropocene and anthropogenic climate destabilisation. Film noir and neo-noir. Afrofuturism. African speculative fiction. Political cinema. Marxism. Monsters. 

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