Max Dosser is a Senior Lecturer of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. Before that, he was a Graduate Teaching Fellow and Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric and Ph.D. certificates in Film and Media Studies and in Cultural Studies. When he isn’t researching speculative fiction, fandoms, music communication, or animated media, he’s writing about heroic blueberries, raven knights, and long voyages in outer space. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Flash Point Science Fiction.

Max’s first book, Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms, analyzes the affective economy of fan-driven controversies in the speculative fiction community. Its central research question asks: What is the relationship between the affective attachments fans have to speculative fiction media and the logics of violence/exclusion so prevalent in reactionary movements at large?