Evan Gottlieb

Evan Gottlieb

Professor
School of Writing, Literature & Film

Moreland Hall 324
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Credentials
Ph.D. University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2002
M.A. University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2000
B.A. McMaster University (Canada), 1997
Research/Career Interests

Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature; science fiction and fantasy; literary and critical theory 

In addition to a variety of articles, chapters, and edited volumes, I'm the author of the following books:

  • Eco-Theory and Annihilation: Film Theory in Practice (Bloomsbury  Academic, 2025)
  • Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2020)
  • Romantic Realities: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
  • Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 (Ohio State University Press, 2014)
  • Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Bloomsbury, 2013)
  • Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832 (Bucknell University Press, 2007)

My current book project is a new volume, Science Fiction: The Basics, for Routledge's long-running "The Basics" series. I'm also excited to have signed a contract with Lexington Books to write a monograph, Jews and Jewishness in New Wave Science Fiction, 1960-1980, for their “Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy” series (edited by Valerie Frankel).

Honors and Awards

Visiting Scholar, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, September 2024

Visiting International Scholar, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, May-June 2018

Robert J. Frank Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award, College of Liberal Arts, OSU, 2015

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, summer 2014

Courses Taught

ENG 108: Introduction to Science Fiction and Fantasy

ENG 205 and 206: British Literature surveys

ENG 301: Ways of Reading

ENG 345: Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory

ENG 465/565: Studies in the Novel

ENG 475/575: Studies in Criticism and Theory