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 and anticolonial thought
• Collage and collage poetics
• New media and media history
• Queer and trans theory
• American literature and film from 1900 - the present

Peer-reviewed 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, issue 45, vol. 1-2 (2024). 

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:

• "A 'Change of Sex': The Eighteenth-Century It-Narrative and Contemporary Science Fiction," SFRA (Science Fiction Research Association), 1 August 2025
• "American Science Fiction Through Other Continents," ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), Seminar on Rebooting World SF, 30 May 2025
• "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

Teaching:

• UWP 1: Introduction to Academic Literacies - Associate Instructor (Instructor of Record)
• STS/CDM 151: Media Theory - Teaching Assistant
• CDM/STS/ENL 172: Videogames and Culture - Teaching Assistant
• ENL 10C: English Literatures 1900 to the present - Teaching Assistant

Education:

PhD, University of California, Davis, 2023 - present

BA (High Honors), Swarthmore College, 2021