Telotte presented a paper, “The Empire’s New Robots,” in a panel on Cinematic Robots.

Senf chaired a panel on British Babes: Bronte, Rossetti, and Waters and presented a paper, “The Lair of the White Worm and Women’s Place in Empire” in a panel on Stoke® Up.

SF writer and visiting professor Goonan read from her recent work and participated in a panel, The Question Isn’t Whether Writing Can Be Taught—Can Talent Be Taught?

Also delivering papers were the following former Brittain Fellows:

• Jason Embry (Georgia Gwinnett College), “Steampunk: A Case for the Evolution on Empire(ical) Studies”
• Susan George (University of California, Merced), “Drivin’ Down the Highway: Supernatural, U.S. Car Culture, and the Masculinity of Dean Winchester”
• Ben Robertson (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Empires of Disbelief”