Fiction can take us outside of our own experience and give us a small hint of what it's like to be someone else. Ed Sarah Hans.įiction has a special role in the way we relate to each other. more Co-authored with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry in Steampunk Universe. Originally written between 20 at New York University, this science-fiction pulp performance blends historical fact, alternate history, and speculative fiction to relate the origins of Ay-leen the Peacemaker, a mysterious assassin who shoots Indochinese Governor-General Paul Armand Rousseau on 10 December, 1896.Ĭo-authored with Elsa Sjunneson-Henry in Steampunk Universe. Included with this analysis is the one-person play Analog Incarnations. This article examines the artistic risk and imaginative potential associated with steampunk performance by marginalised voices when confronting historical trauma. For the marginalised, such performances can renegotiate paradigms of historical Western imperialism, Eurocentric colonialism, and whiteness by centring the experiences of the oppressed. more Steampunk performance interrogates dominant narratives of history through theatrical, science fictional stories that focus on the various socio-political interplays between retro-futurist technology and society. Steampunk performance interrogates dominant narratives of history through theatrical, science fic. You can also follow her work on the multicultural steampunk blog Beyond Victoriana:
She has been interviewed about steampunk and its evolving subculture for many media outlets, including BBC America, the Travel Channel, HGTV, and the Science Channel the websites Airship Ambassador, Racialicious, and NerdCaliber and the books The Steampunk Bible, and Steampunk: Reloaded. Novels she has edited have won the Thriller Award and Ditmar Award, and become finalists for the Nebula Award, Lambda Literary Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and Andre Norton Award for Young Adult.įor several years, she has traveled the country as a professional convention speaker about social justice issues and fandom.
Diana's past work has included critical analysis of the role of race in fashion, performance, and the media, in addition to pieces focusing on fan studies and fan communities.ĭiana is also a two-time finalist for Best Editor, Long-Form in the Hugo Awards, one of the most prestigious honors in the SFF field. She is interested in performance of identity and the ideological and social currency of participatory cultures in relation to the dominant culture, namely in visual subcultures like steampunk and Japanese anime cosplay.
She has a double Bachelor’s degree in English and Russian Literature from Mount Holyoke College and a Master’s in Performance Studies from New York University. Pho is a queer Vietnamese-American independent scholar, playwright, and book editor.
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