Reimagining What It Means to be Human: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Ecologist

Christian Haines is an English professor at Penn State University, where he teaches literature and critical theory. He’s published a book on US literature and utopia (A Desire Called America ), as well as numerous scholarly articles on topics as varied as geoengineering, the cloud, and class struggle. His freelance writing on speculative fiction, video games, and other media can be found in publications such as The Los Angeles Review of Books, Unwinnable Monthly, Ancillary Review of Books, and Gamers with Glasses (the last of which he co-founded).