OliverMilne

Hi Rob,

Genre fiction - especially fantasy - has traditionally been treated as being a little bit below traditional english literature departments. What is your Masters going to do to encourage interested people whose academic background is perhaps outside of literature to play a part and how to you establish yourself in a discipline which has traditionally failed to take an interest in Speculative Fiction?

(2nd one if you get time, why has sci-fi been viewed as more worthy of academic study than fantasy?)

I always talk about Oryx and Crake when I come across anyone who thinks that speculative fiction is below them.

Thanks, and good luck with the first cohort!