Rob Latham
{{Short description|Academic and science fiction critic}}
Rob Latham is a former professor of English at the University of California, Riverside and a science fiction critic.
Career
Latham was an English professor at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Riverside.{{Cite web|url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/latham_rob|title=SFE: Latham, Rob|website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}
Latham is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (2002){{cite book|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3645953.html|publisher=press.uchicago.edu|title=Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption, Latham |accessdate=2017-06-30}} based on his 1995 Stanford University Ph.D. thesis[https://web.stanford.edu/dept/MTL/cgi-bin/modthought/people/rob-latham/ Rob Latham] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612113751/http://web.stanford.edu/dept/MTL/cgi-bin/modthought/people/rob-latham/ |date=2017-06-12 }} record at Stanford University Consuming Youth: Technologies of Desire and American Youth Culture.
Latham is a co-editor of the Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014) and Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings (2017). He is senior editor and a contributor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and an editor-at-large and a contributor for Los Angeles Review of Books.[https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/rob-latham/ Rob Latham], a profile at the LARB
In 2013, Latham received the Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service from the SF Research Association.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfra.org/Clareson-Award|publisher=sfra.org|title=Science Fiction Research Association - Thomas D. Clareson Award|accessdate=2017-06-30|archive-date=2019-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402104723/http://www.sfra.org/Clareson-Award|url-status=dead}} He was selected for the Clareson Award jury in 2016 and 2017.[http://www.sfra.org/Award-Committees "Award Committees"], SFRA
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