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Rebecca Evans

Dr. Rebecca Evans is an assistant professor of English at Winston-Salem State University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Resilience, and The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Her current book project examines contemporary American literature’s treatment of structural violence. icon

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What It Feels Like When Your World Ends

By Rebecca Evans

The increasingly popular genre recently christened “cli-fi,” or climate change fiction, tends to move from the outside in: as the environment deteriorates ...

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