Carol McGuirk is one of the founding faculty of the SF/F concentration at FAU. Professor McGuirk studies and teaches literary and cultural theory including animal rights, and contemporary British and U. S. science fiction. She is an editor of  Science Fiction Studies  and, with her fellow  SFS  editors, co-edited  Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction  (Wesleyan UP), one of the central textbooks for teaching SF at the university-level. "The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith," an extended essay on a neglected writer of the Cold War era, was shortlisted for the Pioneer Award (Science Fiction Research Association). In addition to her extensive work in SF, Professor McGuirk also is a noted scholar of Scottish studies including ballads and folk-song and seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century British poetry.

Carol McGuirk studies and teaches seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century British poetry, John Milton, literary and cultural theory including the emerging field of animal rights, Scottish studies including ballads and folk-song, and contemporary British and U. S. fiction including science fiction and fiction by women. She is an editor of  Science Fiction Studies  and has edited  Selected Poems of Burns  for Penguin and  Critical Essays on Burns  for G. K. Hall.  Robert Burns and the Sentimental Era  (Georgia 1985) is still available through a paperback reissue by the Scottish press Tuckwell (1998). "The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith," an extended essay on a neglected writer of the Cold War era, was shortlisted for the Pioneer Award (Science Fiction Research Association).  Poet Burns, a long-term project in final stages, has been supported by a 2002-2003 Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a G. Ormiston Roy Fellowship in Scottish Poetry from the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina. Also in progress is  The SFS/Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction  (Wesleyan UP), a collaborative effort of the co-editors of  Science Fiction Studies.

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Select SF/F Publications

Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Wesleyan UP, 2010.

“Realist of a Larger Reality: Ursula K. LeGuin, 1929-2018.”  Science Fiction Studies  45.2 (July 2018). Signed as by “The Editors,” our custom for obituaries of long-time friends of the journal. 402-405.

“Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, and American Science Fiction.”  Science Fiction Studies  45.1 (Mar. 2018): 213-18.

“In Memoriam, Brian W. Aldiss.”  SFS  44.3 (Nov. 2017): 645-46. Signed as by “The Editors.”

“Asimov, Boucher, Heinlein, and Detective Fiction; or, Is Jubal Harshaw’s Role-Model Nero Wolfe?”  Science Fiction Studies  44.1 (Mar. 2017): 192-98.

“The Animal Downdeep: Cordwainer Smith’s Late Tales of the Underpeople.”  Science Fiction Studies  37.3 (Nov. 2010): 466-477.

“The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith.”  Science Fiction Studies  28.2 (July 2001): 161-200. Shortlisted for the Pioneer Award, Science Fiction Research Association.

“Nowhere Man: Towards a Poetics of Post-Utopian Characterization.”  SFS  21.2 (1994): 141-54.

“Margaret Drabble to Angela Carter: Women Novelists, 1962-1992.”  The Columbia History of the British Novel  . Ed. John Richetti et al. New York: Columbia UP, 1994: 939-965.

“The ‘New’ Romancers: Science Fiction Innovators from Gernsback to Gibson.”  Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. Ed. George Slusser and Tom Shippey. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1992. 109-132.

“Optimism and the Limits of Subversion in The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.”  Ursula Le Guin: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1986: 243-258. Rpt.  Modern Critical Interpretations: The Left Hand of Darkness. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1987: 117-134.