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PhD English University of York
Masters English University of York
Bachelors English University of York

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According to Wikipedia, Farah Jane Mendlesohn is a British academic historian, writer on speculative fiction, and active member of science fiction fandom. Mendlesohn is best-known for their 2008 book Rhetorics of Fantasy, which classifies fantasy literature into four modes based on how the fantastic enters the story. Their work as editor includes the Cambridge Companions to science fiction and fantasy, collaborations with Edward James. The science fiction volume won a Hugo Award. Mendlesohn is also known for books on the history of fantasy, including Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction, co-written with Michael Levy. It was the first work to trace the genre's 500-year history and won the World Fantasy Award.

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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003) (206)
Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008) (133)
A Short History of Fantasy (2009) (45)
Crowning the King: Harry Potter and the construction of authority (2004) (40)
The Cambridge companion to fantasy literature (2012) (34)
The Ethics of Friends' Relief Work in Republican Spain (2012) (18)
Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction (2016) (16)
Diana Wynne Jones : children's literature and the fantastic tradition (2005) (16)
The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction (2009) (15)
New Wave and backwash: 1960–1980 (2003) (15)
Surpassing the love of vampires: or why (and how) a queer reading of the Buffy/ Willow relationship is denied. (2002) (14)
Is There Any Such Thing as Children's Science Fiction?: A Position Piece (2004) (13)
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction: Introduction (2003) (10)
Film and television (2003) (9)
Hard science fiction (2003) (8)
Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (2000) (8)
Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War (2002) (7)
Science fiction and its editors (2003) (6)
Dark fantasy and paranormal romance (2012) (5)
The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (2003) (4)
Gender, power, and conflict resolution : Subcommittee by Zenna Henderson (1994) (4)
On Joanna Russ (2009) (3)
Science fiction in the academies of history and literature; or, history and the use of science fiction. (2002) (3)
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (2020) (3)
The English Civil Wars (2020) (3)
Reading the fantasy series (2012) (3)
Practising peace : American and British Quaker relief in the Spanish Civil War. (1997) (2)
Iain M. Banks: Excession (2007) (2)
Fiction, 1926-1949. (2009) (2)
Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition And Children's Literature (2005) (2)
Fantasies of history and religion (2012) (1)
Gothic and horror fiction (2012) (1)
Towards a taxonomy of fantasy. (2002) (1)
A Celebration of British Science Fiction (2005) (1)
The cartesian novum of third rock from the sun. (2000) (1)
Conjunctions 39 and liminal fantasy. (2005) (1)
Romancing the teen (2016) (1)
Glorifying terrorism: an anthology of original science fiction. (2006) (1)
New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise (2000) (1)
Denominational difference in Quaker relief work during the Spanish Civil War: the operation of corporate concern and liberal theologies. (2000) (1)
A Mad Kind of Reasonableness (2013) (0)
Writers of colour (2012) (0)
How fantasy became children's literature (2016) (0)
Making the Mundane Fantastic, or Liminal Fantasy (2013) (0)
Diana Wynne Jones (2009) (0)
Michael Guasco, Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2017) (0)
What is a Children’s Book? What is a Book for Children? Are they the Same Thing? The Latest Intervention in an On-going Project* (2020) (0)
Conscientious Objection to Various Compulsions under British Law (review) (2012) (0)
The Restoration (2020) (0)
As We Understand History, so We Understand Fiction (2020) (0)
The Commonwealth and the Protectorate (2020) (0)
Selecting the Historical Fiction (2020) (0)
Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability by Susan A. Honeyman (review) (2019) (0)
Journey through Magic and Imagination (2018) (0)
John Street, Politics and Popular Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997, £13.99). Pp. 212. ISBN 1 56639 603 4. (1999) (0)
Between Worlds : Portal Fantasy as Dialogic in Gaiman and Miéville Therefore languages do not exclude each other , but rather intersect with each other in many different ways (2015) (0)
Introduction: A is for Activism: Children's Engagement with the Political Process (2021) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Making the Italians: Poetics and Politics of Italian Children's Fantasy (2015) (0)
Religion (2020) (0)
Folklore, fantasy and indigenous fantasy (2016) (0)
The American search for an American childhood (2016) (0)
Unending romance: science fiction and fantasy in the twentieth century (2012) (0)
The changing landscape of post-war fantasy (2016) (0)
Harry Potter and children's fantasy since the 1990s (2016) (0)
Men and Women (2020) (0)
A novel of colonisation: Tricia Sullivan's dreaming in smoke (2006) (0)
Fager's "Friends in Civilian Public Service: Quaker Conscientious Objectors in World War II Look Back and Look Ahead" and Fager's "Friends and the Vietnam War; Papers and Presentations From a Gathering for Recollection, Reappraisal and Looking Ahead" - Book Review (2003) (0)
The Secular City : The Dialectical Religious Vision (2008) (0)
Creating Memory (2020) (0)
British and Empire fantasy between the wars (2016) (0)
Thinking about Justice, Thinking about YA (2018) (0)
Pacifism in the Twentieth Century, and: Varieties of Pacifism: A Survey from Antiquity to the Outset of the Twentieth Century, and: Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945 (review) (2012) (0)
Corporatism and the corporate ethos in the early works of Robert A. Heinlein. (2000) (0)
By the Sword Divided (2020) (0)
Review Article - Recent Publications in Quaker Studies (1999) (0)
Middle Earth, medievalism and mythopoeic fantasy (2016) (0)
"Now Let Us Put Away Childish Things": Games, Fantasy and the Elided Fantasy of Childhood (2009) (0)
Marc Stein, City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945–1972. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xi + 457pp. 38 figures. $35; £24.50. (2002) (0)
Fairies, ghouls and goblins: the realms of Victorian and Edwardian fancy (2016) (0)
The American Robot: A Cultural History (2021) (0)
First Opinion: The Iron Chains of Destiny (2009) (0)
Great Men and Great Battles (2020) (0)
Fantasy in Children’s Fiction (2014) (0)
Cognitive development, science fiction and science fiction for children, or does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny? (2004) (0)
PhD Accessibility Report, June 2016 (2016) (0)
Polder: a festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute. (2006) (0)
The Cultural Landscape of the Civil Wars (2020) (0)
Corporatism and the Corporate Ethos in Robert Heinlein's ‘The Roads Must Roll’ (2001) (0)
Joel A. Carpenter, Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (Oxford University Press, 1997, £25.00 cloth). Pp. 335. ISBN 0 19 5057902. (1999) (0)
The Immersive Fantasy (2013) (0)
A consideration of Iain M. Banks's excession (2005) (0)

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