During the summer of 1999, I interned at the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University. While there, I read through their collection of premillennialist Christian apocalyptic fiction (such as the Left Behind series) and other related materials. After leaving the internship, I continued my studies, and I returned to present papers at three subsequent international conferences hosted by the Center.
My relevant publications:
“Christian Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction and Technology,” The End That Does: Art, Science and Millennial Accomplishment (Millennialism and Society, Vol. 3), 2006.
“Christian Apocalyptic Fiction,” Strange Horizons, 8 April 2002. (Also in print in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two, 2003)
“Anti-Apocalyptic Fiction,” Strange Horizons, 27 May 2002. (Also in print in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two, 2003)
“Competing Fictions: The Uses of Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in Contemporary Popular Fictional Works. Part One: Premillennialist Apocalyptic Fictions,” Journal of Millennial Studies (Winter 2001).
“Competing Fictions: The Uses of Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in Contemporary Popular Fictional Works. Part Two: Anti-Apocalyptic Fictions,” Journal of Millennial Studies (Winter 2001)
“The Rapture, the Nerds, and the Singularity,” Fictitious Force #2, 2006.
Center for Millennial Studies Conference Presentations:
Competing Fictions: The Uses of Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in Contemporary Popular Fictional Works (2000). Presentation of two-part paper published the following year.
Premillennialist Apocalyptic Fiction and Technology: Co-option and Confrontation (2001).
Time for Premillennialist Apocalyptic Fiction Fiction (2002). Regarding apocalyptic disappointment and the use of time in fiction.
