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711 Island View Circle
Port Hueneme, CA 93041–3447
805.488.9131
erlichrd@muohio.edu

Richard D. Erlich

Titles

Emeritus Professor
Professor Erlich retired from Miami University in 2006.

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1971
M.A., English, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
A.B., English, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Teaching Interests

Shakespeare
Science fiction & fantasy
Utopian studies
Satire
Student engagement

Research Interests

Science fiction & fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin
Frederik Pohl
SF film

Selected Publications

“Worthy Memorial.” Rev. Frank McConnell. The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 12. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. SFS #112 = 37.3 (November 2010): 523-26.
Coyote’s Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Borgo-Wildside Press, 2010. Paperback http://www.wildsidebooks.com.
“Always Coming Home: Ethnography, unBible, and Utopian Satire.” Paradoxa #21 (2008): 137-166.
“A Longish Note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Lavinia. SFS 35 (2008) 349-53.
Clockworks: A Multimedia Bibliography [i.e., List] of Works Useful for the Study of the Human/Machine Interface in SF. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn, compilers (so the legal attribution; Dunn and Erlich agreed upon “Richard D. Erlich with Thomas P. Dunn”). Assisted by Edward K. Montgomery, Catherine Mills Royer, and D. Scott DeLoach. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1993.
Clockwork Worlds: Mechanized Environments in SF. Richard D. Erlich and Thomas P. Dunn, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
The Mechanical God: Machines in Science Fiction. Thomas P. Dunn and Richard D. Erlich, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
“Le Guin and God: Quarreling with the One, Critiquing Pure Reason.” Extrapolation 47.3 (Winter 2006): 351–79. Online at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1421/is_3_47/ai_n29323840.
“Herons, Ringtrees, and Mud: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Eye of the Heron.” Extrapolation 49.3 (Fall 2002) 314-29. With Diana Perkins [MU undergrad].
“Beyond Topeka and Thunderdome: Variations on the Comic–Romance Pattern in Recent SF Film.” Science-Fiction Studies, 14 (1987): 316-25. Peter C. Hall and Richard D. Erlich.
“Ursula K. Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke on Immanence, Transcendence, and Massacres.” Extrapolation 28 (Summer 1987): 105-29.
“‘That Old White–Bearded Satan’ (or ‘Sympathy for the Devil’): Outsiders Inside Some Fictive Worlds.” West Virginia Philological Papers, 32 (1986 [1987]), 1-11.

Web Publications

Blog
Coyote’s Song: The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. (1997) Digital publication of the Science Fiction Research Association. http://www.sfra.org/Coyote/CoyoteHome.htm. 2001–2005.

Recent Journalism

“Other people’s work doesn’t get respect either" [guest column on comment by Hilary Rosen on Ann Romney’s not working as a stay-at-home mom]. The Hamilton Journal-News and Middletown Journal 23 April 2012 (Journal-News “Ideas & Voices”: A5).
“Rational thought, family dinners and Little League.” Hamilton Journal-News 25 Feb. 2011. Middletown Journal 25 Feb. 2011.
"Forget about having beers with your candidates." Hamilton Journal-News 5 November 2010.
“Hucksters are preying on your anxiety and guilt.” Middletown Journal 29 October 2010. More exact text with more upscale formatting as “Turn Off; Tune Out—and Stick to Your Shopping Lists”.
“The dark sides of ‘lifelong learning’ await you.” Middletown Journal 27 August 2010.
“Prop. 8, marriage and the American state.” The Ventura County Star 22 August 2010: B10.
“The kids aren’t all right — but neither are they impaired.” Hamilton Journal News 16 July 2010.
“Are we ready for more casualties in Afghanistan?” Hamilton Journal-News 23 July 2010.
“Make 18 the age when you get all adult privileges” (editor’s title). Hamilton Journal-News 25 June 2010.
“Why should we sacrifice for future generations?” Hamilton Journal-News 14 May 2010.

Teaching Websites

S. F. Film: http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/350/.
Shakespeare and Film: http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/shax-film2001/
Tragedy: http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/eng121asp01/
Print S.F.: http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/courseinsf/
Satiric Film: http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/satire/
Frederik Pohl [his site; I’m webmaster]: http://www.frederikpohl.com
Clockworks 2 wiki: http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Clockworks 2 sites: http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/Clockworks%202/Clock2,%201-4%20(into%202006).htm
http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/Clockworks%202/Clock2,%205-9%20(into%202006).htm

Film Credits

Associate Producer. NOSTRUM (vt PSYCHOTICA). Jonathan Wright, dir., script. Toronto: Boutique Films / SuperChannel (TV), 2010.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630607/.
Associate Producer. MOST HIGH. Marty Sader, dir., co-script. USA: Second Act Films, 2004.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418903/
Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418903/awards

Work in Progress

Erlich is webmaster for Frederik Pohl (http://www.frederikpohl.com) and manages the wiki “Clockworks 2: Supplement to Clockworks: A Multimedia Bibliography of Works Useful for the Study of the Human/Machine Interface in SF” (http://www.clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). He is retired in Ventura County, CA, where he is does some editing of scholarly texts and works as a film-script analyst in association with the producer Michael Klawitter. Not in association with Mr. Klawitter, he is currently involved with the pre-production of a documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin.

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