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Ada Palmer
Title: Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College
Expertise: Science fiction, Fantasy, Censorship, Classics, Disability, Futurism, Genre fiction
Departmental website: https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/ada-palmer