“Science Fiction Book Club”

For this meeting of the working group Reading Groups, our guest will be Julia Grillmayr.

Julia Grillmayr is a Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Arts Linz, specializing in science fiction studies and the environmental humanities. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Vienna. Together with Christina Gruber and Sophia Rut, she founded the collective Lobau Listening Comprehensions, conducting acoustic artistic research in and about wetlands. She received the Theodor Körner Prize in 2023 for this work. Her monograph Science Fiction Futurologien has recently been published by transcript. She has also worked as a journalist in print and radio and is the creator of the radio series Superscience Me on Freies Radio Wien Orange 94.0.

As part of the series, the Science Fiction Book Club was launched in collaboration with Carola Fuchs. Every four weeks, the two discuss selected science fiction short stories on the radio, and listeners can call in live to join the conversation. To prepare for our meeting, you can listen to one of the past episodes (in German): https://cba.media/780153