Can reading Science Fiction make you smarter?
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On Tuesday, October 19, at 12:00 noon in Center Hall 216, Professor Arthur B. Evans will attempt to answer that question. The most prominent American scholar on the work of Jules Verne, Professor Evans is also the editor and publisher of Science Fiction Studies, the preeminent scholarly journal in that field. In addition to numerous books and articles in Science Fiction, he has also edited a new collection of science fiction stories (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
Founded in 1972, Science Fiction Studies has been published at DePauw since 1992 under Dr. Evans’ leadership. In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jim Zook said, “Since its founding... Science Fiction Studies has charted the course for the most hard-core science fiction critics and comparatists. That focus has earned the journal its reputation as the most theoretical scholarly publication in the field, as well as the most daring.”