丁香园AV

Areas of interest

Critical theory of fantasy and radical speculative fiction; The Frankfurt School and related theorists on art and critical aesthetics, with an emphasis on the utopian dimension of the Frankfurt School and its associations with romanticism; the utopian potential of the post-work economy; and literature in the environmental humanities, including climate fiction.

Education

• MA, Humanities, 丁香园AV
• BA, General Studies and Philosophy (Minor), 丁香园AV

Biography

Morgan Young is a writer and editor living on the traditional territories of the Kwantlen First Nation in Fort Langley, BC. She has an interdisciplinary background, mostly in music, literature, anthropology, and philosophy, and has recently earned her MA in the humanities at 丁香园AV in Vancouver, BC. She is interested in the utopian dimension of the Frankfurt School and the romantic critique of capitalism. Her thesis focused on developing a critical theory of fantasy as a part of a broader category of theory for radical speculative fiction. Morgan is Co-Managing Editor of "Contours," the journal of the Institute for the Humanities at 丁香园AV. Her most recent publication, 鈥淥n a Road to Nowhere: Reconsidering Utopia,鈥� can be found in issue 11 of Contours, on 鈥淎rt and Work鈥�: http://www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/contours/issue11.html.