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RESEARCH PROJECTS Alpha 60 and the HAL-9000: Tension Regarding Language and Technology in 2001: a Space Odyssey and Alphaville Computer-Assisted Prayer: A Brief Look at Faith in Bits Directed in Reading in Science Fiction, with Professor Bill Warner, UCSB Directed Reading: The Fantastic in Latin American Literature, with Professor Suzanne Jill Levine, UCSB Faustine, Diana, and Chantal Cazalis: Fantastic Doubles in the Work of Adolfo Bioy Casares The Evolution of an Ethnic Commodity: Marketing Oscar Hijuelos' Our House in the Last World Healthy Lies? A Paratextual Analysis of Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo Landscape and Locodescription in William Gibson's Neuromancer Leto II, THX-1138, Logan 5, and 3Jane: Numbers in Names in Science Fiction Lupe Solano, Private Eye: Ethnic Identity and the Search for Clues in Popular Detective Fiction The Presence of Absence: the Expression of Trauma in Meridel Le Sueur's novel The Girl Readings in Science and Literature, with Professor Bill Warner, UCSB Records, Projections, and the Dixie Flatline: Character Loops in La invención de Morel and Neuromancer Self-Reflixivity in Julio Cortázar's <<Las babas del diablo>> and Ricardo Piglia's Adaptation of <<Las puertas del cielo>> Sailing Through Space and Time: the Influence of Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle on H.G. Wells' Time Machine |