Farah Mendlesohn

(July 27, 1968 --)

Farah Jane Mendlesohn is a fan who was Professor and Head of the Department of English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University. She was previously Reader in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature in the Media Department at Middlesex University. She writes on the history of American religions and British and American SF and fantasy. She received her D. Phil. in History from the University of York in 1997.

She was the editor of Foundation -- The International Review of Science Fiction from 2002 to 2007.

Her book Rhetorics of Fantasy won the BSFA Award for best non-fiction book in 2009; the book was also nominated for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Mythopoeic Award.

The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature was nominated for the Hugo Award, the BFA Award, and the BSFA Award.

Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction won both a WFA Special Award, Professional and the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies).

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the BSFA Award

Mendlesohn was Chair of the 2006 and 2019 Eastercons, Concussion and Ytterbium, and was Co-Chair for the 2002 SFRA Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 2001 -- Best Related Book Hugo nominee for Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature
• 2003 -- BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction for "Reading Science Fiction" (introduction)
• 2005 -- Best Related Book Hugo for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
• 2006 -- BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction nominee for Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute
• 2007 -- Picocon 24
• 2008 -- Finncon 2008, BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction for Rhetorics of Fantasy
• 2009 -- Best Related Book Hugo nominee, WFA Special Award, Professional nominee, and Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies) nominee for Rhetorics of Fantasy, BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction nominee for A Short History of Fantasy
• 2010 -- Best Related Work Hugo nominee for On Joanna Russ, Best Related Work Hugo nominee for The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies) nominee for Rhetorics of Fantasy
• 2011 -- Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies) nominee for Rhetorics of Fantasy
• 2012 -- BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction nominee for The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
• 2013 -- Best Related Work Hugo nominee and BFA Award for Best Non-Fiction nominee for The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
• 2014 -- Karl Edward Wagner Award
• 2017 -- Durhamcon 1, WFA Special Award, Professional winner and Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies) nominee for Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction
• 2018 -- Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies) for Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction
• 2019 -- BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction for The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein
• 2020 -- Best Related Work Hugo nominee for The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein
• 2018 -- FantasyCon 2018
• 2022 -- ICFA 43 Guest Scholar

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