Evans, Arthur B
Entry updated 5 December 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1948- ) US academic and critic, professor of French in the modern languages department at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana; also known as Art Evans. He has written extensively and illuminatingly about Jules Verne in Jules Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel (1988) – which won the Eaton Award – and in shorter essays for Science Fiction Studies, Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, Extrapolation, and notes and bibliographies for editions of Verne in the Wesleyan University Press Early Classics of Science Fiction series, of which he is general editor. He coedited the Philip K Dick critical anthology On Philip K Dick: 40 Articles from Science Fiction Studies (anth 1992) with R D Mullen, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay and Veronica Hollinger, whose contents are as the title indicates drawn from Science Fiction Studies; and the SF in the Classroom textbook fiction anthology Science Fiction: The Wesleyan Anthology (anth 2010) with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham and Carol McGuirk. Another critical anthology, edited solo, is Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction (anth 2014).
Evans has been editor of Science Fiction Studies since 1991. Further authors about whom he has written for that critical journal include E F Bleiler, Gustave Le Rouge, Maurice Renard and Jacques Spitz. For his services to sf and its teaching he received the Thomas D Clareson Award (which see) in 2012. [DRL]
see also: Robert Cromie.
Arthur Bruce Evans
born Salem, Massachusetts: 24 October 1948
works
nonfiction
- Jules Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1988) [nonfiction: Jules Verne: hb/nonpictorial]
works as editor
- On Philip K Dick: 40 Articles from Science Fiction Studies (Terre Haute, Indiana: SF-TH Inc, 1992) with R D Mullen, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay and Veronica Hollinger [nonfiction: anth: assembling essays published in Science Fiction Studies between 1975 and 1992: Philip K Dick: hb/]
- The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2010) with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham and Carol McGuirk [anth: hb/from George Méliès]
- Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2014) [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's Early Classics of Science Fiction series: hb/Alphonse de Neuville]
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