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Areas of Interest

  • Popular Culture
  • 20th Century American Literature
  • 20th Century American History
  • Genre Literature and Media
  • Political and Social Criticism in genre media

Biography

Rikk Mulligan is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Michigan State University, working on a dissertation involving post-apocalyptic societies in speculative media. His current research focuses on intersections between popular culture and political criticism in science fiction and horror. He has previously published on Battlestar Galactica in the collection Cylons in America, and has a chapter on zombie apocalypse in the forthcoming collection from McFarland, End of Days: Understanding the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity, Karolyn Kinane and Michael A. Ryan, eds. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland), Forthcoming in Spring 2009. He has presented on a range of topics including BSG, zombies, and apocalyptic literature and film at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, the Science Fiction Research Association, and the British Association for American Studies.