Drawing which H. G. Wells sent to a friend as an illustration of one of the Martians who invade earth in The War of the Worlds. Any resemblance to Professor Rieder is purely coincidental.

John Rieder has published a book on William Wordsworth, Wordsworth’s Counterrevolutionary Turn (University of Delaware Press, 1997), and numerous essays on the poetry of Percy Shelley, on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its dramatic and film adaptations, and on problems of periodization, the professionalization of literary studies, and the canon. He has also published throughout his twenty-five year career on science fiction and horror cinema, as well as writing reviews of contemporary poetry and venturing an occasional essay on nonsense poetry or children's literature.

He is currently working on a book titled Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. A related piece on “Science Fiction, Colonialism, and the Plot of Invasion” appeared in Extrapolation, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Fall, 2005): 373-394. His recent graduate courses have been on Marxism and the Critique of Culture (Fall 1999), Theories and Methods of Literary Studies (Spring 2002), Science Fiction (Fall 2002 and Fall 2004), and Theories and Methods of Cultural Studies (Spring 2006).

Professor Rieder received the University of Hawai`i at Manoa’s Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Teaching in 2005.

Areas of Interest
English Romanticism, science fiction, the Gothic, Marxist theory

Education
BA, University of Cincinnati
MA, PhD, Yale University