Terry Harpold - Editorial Review Board

Associate Professor of English, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida

His book Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008. Recent essays and reviews by Professor Harpold have appeared in journals such as Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne, Game Studies, IRIS, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Revue Jules Verne, Science Fiction Studies, South Atlantic Review, and Verniana; and in edited collections such as Prepare for Pictopia! (Pictoplasma Publishing, 2009), Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008) and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (Routledge, 2005). He is a member of the editorial boards of Game Studies and Postmodern Culture, a founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Verniana: Jules Verne Studies / Etudes Jules Verne, and a Trustee of the Board of Directors of the North American Jules Verne Society.

His current article projects include essays on: expressive typography in the works of American science fiction author Alfred Bester; the critical reception of Jules Verne in Britain and the United States in the early 20th century; "subaerine horror" fiction of the first decades of heavier-than-air flight (Doyle, Renard, Verne, Wells, and others); and the method of a polyserial reading apparatus devised by Orville W. Owen, a late 19th century American Baconian.

He is currently working on three book projects: Collectionner l'Extraordinaire, sonder l'Ailleurs. Essais sur Jules Verne en l'honneur de Jean-Michel Margot (with coeditors Daniel Compère and Volker Dehs); Des leçons d'abîme, on intertextual "relays" in the fiction of Jules Verne; and Aren't Apricots Peaches?, on the "hysterical science" of Charles Hoy Fort, an early 20th-century chronicler of occult phenomena.

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