About Sean
Sean Rhoads is an independent scholar, author, and guest lecturer who specializes in contemporary science fiction and monster studies. Sean has broad experience teaching, researching, and writing in the humanities. His research interests include speculative fiction in both literature and film, especially the intersection of science fiction and environmental issues through the lenses of genre and ecocriticism.
Sean holds a PhD in English Literature from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Prior to earning his PhD, Sean received his B.A. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA, and his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Sean has taught university-level courses at Queen’s University, Alvernia University, and Jefferson University (formerly Philadelphia University).
Sean is the coauthor of Japan’s Green Monsters, a study of environmental issues in the Godzilla, Mothra, and Gamera film series. He is also the author of Blue Planet, his PhD dissertation on ecological concerns in science fiction of the twenty-first century. He’s published numerous articles and edited-volume chapters on science fiction and monsters in journals like Humanities, Studies in Canadian Literature, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, H-Net, and G-Fan.