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Camille Tinnin

Camille Tinnin recently completed her PhD in Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University. Her current research and practice are interested in how we develop radical Imagination and build community amid overlapping crises. She is interested in the role of fiction, games, and collective practices on people’s willingness to question the status quo and create alternatives.

Books of imagination. Surreal art. fantasy painting. Books flying in the clouds.

Speculative Fiction: Beyond a Novel’s Entertainment Value

The classroom is a place to equip students to better understand the world as it was and is. Speculative fiction can help.
Cute tiny people reading different books, giant textbooks. Concept of book world, readers at library, literature lovers or fans. Colorful vector illustration in flat cartoon style

Speculative Fiction: A Reading List

Speculative fiction, from Afrofuturism to Star Wars, offers students tools and methods for analyzing social movements, power structures, and utopian thinking.