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Zachary Hyde

I received both a Bachelor's degree in literature and a Master's degree in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies from the University of Central Florida. My current research interests focus on genre studies (particularly speculative fiction) and (post)critique.

I have conferenced on the popular-culture zombie and on comics studies, and I have published on metamodern subjectivity and on cyberpunk sf. For pedagogical purposes, I use strategies of (post)critique and genre studies, and concepts from film and literary studies.

[Speculative] Fiction is good to think with." -- Sherryl Vint

“The great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.” -- Amitav Ghosh

"Literary criticism has no method other than reading." -- Toril Moi

"As for ideas, everyone has them. What counts is the poetic singularity of the analysis." -- Jean Baudrillard

Currently Reading:
Revolution of the Ordinary -- Toril Moi
Forms -- Caroline Levin
The Weird and The Eerie -- Mark Fisher
Authority -- Jeff Vandermeer