Virginia Conn

• PhD (2021) Rutgers University (Comparative Literature)
• MA (2019) Rutgers University (Comparative Literature)
• BA (2009) University of Kentucky (Art Studio)
• BA (2009) University of Kentucky (English Literature)
• Other (2008) Université de Caen Basse-Normandie (Language, Media, Communication)

• First Generation and Limited Income Faculty Mentorship Program Member
• Teaching Writing in the Age of ChatGPT Committee Member Member
• Freshman Experience Name Change Committee Member

• Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Review Managing Editor
• Science Fiction Research Association Review Managing Editor
• Science Fiction Research Association Review Managing Editor

• AATSEEL – American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Member
• MLA – Modern Languages Association Member
• 4S – Society for Social Studies of Science Member
• AAS – Association for Asian Studies Member
• AATSEEL – American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Member
• MLA – Modern Languages Association Member
• 4S – Society for Social Studies of Science Member

Book Chapter

1. Conn, V. L. (2024). Formal Fictions: ‘Chinese’ ‘Science’ ‘Fiction’ in Translation. Chinese Science Fiction: Concepts, Forms, and Histories (pp. 99-120). Palgrave MacMillan.
2. Conn, V. (2021). “Translating the Pathologized Body as a Tool of Nationalism in Chinese Science Fiction” . Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation. Palgrave, Studies in Global Science Fiction.

Book Review

1. Conn, V. L. (2023). Review of The Way Spring Arrives. MCLC Book Reviews. Columbus, Ohio: OSUP.
   https://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/conn/.

Journal Article

1. Conn, V. L. (2023). "Scry, the Beloved Country: National Sinofuturist Imaginaries". World Futures Review (3 ed., vol. 14).
2. Conn, V. L. (2023). "The Future is Ordinary: Developing an Actionable Futurity through Chinese Visual Materials". Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism (vol. 20).
3. Conn, V. L.; de Seta, G. (2023). Let a Hundred Sinofuturisms Bloom. The Routledge Handbook of Cofuturisms. Routledge.
4. Conn, V. L. (2022). "Such Great Sights: Aestheticizing the Future of Labor in Lianhuanhua” . Chinese Literature and Thought Today (1-2 ed., vol. 53).
5. Conn, V. (2022). “The Beautiful and the Whole: Inverting Corporeal Morality in Ye Yonglie’s ‘Corrosion’". Fantastika (1 ed., vol. 6).
6. Conn, V. (2021). “Immediate Pasts and Soon-to-be Futures: Sinofuturism in Review.” . Vector (293 ed.).