Moderator: Giselle Anatol, Professor, Department of English, Director of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction; Interim Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities  

Panelists: Ali Brox, Assistant Teaching Professor, Environmental Studies; Joe Harrington, Professor, English; Paul Outka, Associate Professor, English; Ray Mizumura Pence, Associate Teaching Professor, American Studies; Paul Stock, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Sociology 

Description: This panel discussion will feature cross-disciplinary perspectives on themes found within  Parable of the Sower. Panelists will discuss their experiences teaching the book and guiding students in meaningful discussion, as well as expand upon the topics introduced to help us consider some of what Octavia Butler might have been suggesting as she wrote of a future world with familiar elements.