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Sarah E. Truman

Sarah E. Truman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her current projects examine how literary studies is enacted in the secondary English curriculum, QT/BIPOC speculative fiction, and pedagogies of reading and writing. Truman’s research is informed by the feminist new materialisms with a particular interest in theories of affect, queer theory, and speculative pragmatism. She co-directs WalkingLab (www.walkinglab.org) an international research-creation project and is one half of the electronic glitch-folk music duo Oblique Curiosities (www.obliquecuriosities.com).  (www.sarahetruman.com)

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The three research-creation events discussed in the paper disrupt chronological time through queer and trans theories of time, Afrofuturism, and Indigenous futurism and consider time as intensive and inventive.

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