Post #1169985
2026-04-11 11:27 UTC
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@orionkidder
There's a common perception that English professors tend to shun fiction that falls under any category that might be called "genre." Do you often encounter this bias amongst peers and colleagues when they learn what you're creating (as well as the material you're covering in class)?
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@orionkidder@writing.exchange 2026-04-11 17:08
@KurtHohmann@writing.exchange Not at all! That might have been true at some point, but today, we're all a bunch of nerds. We grew up reading, and we didn't pick up Chaucer when we were five. My friend and colleague who studies modernist poetry has also published a major work on fantasy, is working on a book on science fiction, cowrote an article with me about Alan Moore, and fuckin' loves zombie movies. He's one of many examples. When I tell academics I'm a comics scholar, they say, "Wow, that's so cool!"