R Baker

R Baker (they/she) is an English PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They are broadly interested in speculative scientific discourses–including science fiction–with a focus on anti-colonial worldbuilding, climate justice, critical infrastructure, and anticapitalist speculative futures

Their work is situated at the intersections of the environmental humanities, contemporary science fiction, and feminist STS; their current project focuses on contemporary narratives of space travel, exploration, and colonization, and how these narratives can be (and are) re-purposed to question--and provide speculative imaginaries--to these dominant discourses