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. She directs FIU's Science & Fiction Lab, recipient of a 2023 Humanities Initiatives award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Education
- Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- M.Sc. Social and Public Communication, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- B.A. Government, Smith College
New and Regular Courses
- ENG 3072 Literary Theory in Multimedial Popular Culture
- IDH 3034 Quantum Narratology and Other Curiosities: Intersections of Science and Storytelling
- IDH 3034 Westworld: A Story of Fungibility
- LIT 1000 Introduction to Literature
- LIT 3023 Around the World in Short Stories
- LIT 3313 Science Fiction
- LIT 3325 Literary Archetypes in Moving Images
- LIT 3343 Short Stories of Horror and the Weird
- LIT 3703 Studies in Metaphor
- LIT 3930 Special Topics: Latinx Speculative Fiction
- LIT 3930 Special Topics: The Library of Borges
- LIT 5934 Special Topics: Water and Memory