Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Wilson is the author of Modern Masters of Science Fiction: J.G. Ballard from University of Illinois Press. His other academic books include Cultographies: They Live from Columbia University Press, which the San Francisco Book Review called a "scholarly examination of a cult classic still debated today," and Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction. He has also written a number of scholarly articles on genre fiction along with entries for books such as The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Bibliography Biographies Douglass: The Lost Autobiography (2014) Freud: The Penultimate Biography (2014) Hitler: The Terminal Biography (2014) Plays Three Plays: The Triangulated Diner, The Dark Hypotenuse and Primacy (2016) Stand-Alone Novels Outré (2020) Primordial: An Abstraction (2014) Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance (1st ed. 2009; 2nd ed. 2013) Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria (2008) The Scikungfi Trilogy The Kyoto Man: Book 3 (2013) Codename Prague: Book 2 (2011) Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia: Book 1 (2007) — Winner of the Wonderland Book Award Fiction Collections Natural Complexions (2018) Battles without Honor or Humanity (2017) Battle without Honor or Humanity: Vol. 2 (2016) Battle without Honor or Humanity: Vol. 1 (2015) Diegeses (2013) They Had Goat Heads (2010) Pseudo-City (2005) Stranger on the Loose (2003) The Kafka Effekt (2001) Fiction Theory The Psychotic Dr. Schreber (2019) Literary Criticism Modern Masters of Science Fiction: J.G. Ballard (University of Illinois Press, 2017) Cultographies: They Live (Columbia University Press, 2015) Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction (2009) Films The Cocktail Party (2006): Co-written with director Brandon Duncan, this short, animated, rotoscoped film is a highly abstracted and philosophical (post)postmodern meditation on the narcissistic themes of consumerism, redundant self-analysis and rampant hypocrisy. The film won over ten awards, among them Best Animation at ACE Film Festival. Trivia Wilson is a direct descendant of James Fenimore Cooper and brother-in-law of D I Smith of the band Pilots of Japan. References External links Official Website 1971 births Living people Wright State University faculty 21st-century American novelists American male dramatists and playwrights American male novelists American fantasy writers American horror writers American science fiction writers Novelists from Michigan American male short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Ohio