Rhona Trauvitch holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an associate teaching professor at FIU, where she offers courses in multicultural literature, speculative fiction, narrative theory, and popular culture.
Dr. Trauvitch specializes in literary STEM, focusing on intersections of literature and science—those that manifest in science fiction, and those that enable fiction-science (or, ‘fi-sci’) pattern mapping. In her research and teaching she aims to show that fictionality has the rhetorical power to make science more accessible to the public. Her introduction to the analytical framework of fi-sci pattern mapping appears in the Narratologies of Science special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory. This article is part of her book project on the subject; this monograph is under advance contract with the Ohio State University Press.
Dr. Trauvitch directs FIU's Science & Fiction Lab, recipient of a 2023 Humanities Initiatives award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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–presentAssociate Teaching Professor of English, Florida International University
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