Shaoni C. White

Shaoni C. White is a PhD student in Literature working towards a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies.

Research interests:

• Speculative fiction
• New media
• Postcolonial and anticolonial thought
• Queer and trans theory
• American literature and film from 1900 - the present

Publications:

• "Death, History, and the Time Loop: The Subject/Object Relation in Vandana Singh’s 'Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra.'" Extrapolation, vol. 65, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2024.13
• “Race, Gender, and the Separation of Voice and Body in the Audio Drama Podcast.” Studies in Popular Culture, forthcoming.

Shaoni also writes speculative fiction and poetry. Their work has appeared in Lightspeed, Uncanny, F&SF, and other magazines, and they have written and edited scripts for audio drama podcasts. For links and information about their non-academic work, see shaonicwhite.com.

Conference presentations:

• "Fragmentation Techniques: Web Weaves, Ecology, and The Shared History of Hypertext and Scrapbooking," SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), 9 November 2024
• "Villainous Play: Forbidden Rulesets and Queer Spacetime," Connections 2024, 26 April 2024
• “Web Weaves: Annihilation’s Readers in a More-Than-Human Media Ecology,” International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science, 10 April 2024

Education:

PhD, University of California, Davis, 2023 - present

BA (High Honors), Swarthmore College, 2021