Papers

Cade, Octavia. “The Many Faces and Functions of Death: Multiple Mortalities in Pretty Deadly.” In Simon Bacon (ed.) Visions of Death in the 21st Century: A Companion [Genre Fiction and Film Companions series]. Oxford: Peter Lang. Forthcoming.

Cade, Octavia. “‘It represents… something unknown’: White Horses and Once and Future Blindness in The Moon Stallion.” In Rachel Carazo (ed.) Mythological Equines in Film. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press. Forthcoming.

Cade, Octavia. “The Silent, Sterile Planet: Ecosystem, Extinction, and Mutation in ‘The Daleks’ and ‘The Mutants.'” In Robert F. Kilker (ed.) Critical Approaches to Horror in Doctor Who. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press. Forthcoming.

Cade, Octavia. “Monstrosity, Mutation, and the World Without Us.” In Angela Ndalianis, Liam Burke, and Ian Gordon (eds.) Superheroes Beyond. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. Forthcoming.

Cade, Octavia. “Entering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and Horror.” In Subashish Bhattacharjee and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (eds.) Hororo Cogitare: Critical Essays on the Intersection of Horror and Philosophy. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. Forthcoming.

Cade, Octavia. “A Bold Question: Consent and the Experimental Subject in Frankenstein.” In Claire Fitzpatrick (ed.) A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Melbourne: IFWG Publishing. Forthcoming.

Cade, Octavia. (2023) “Forensic and Experimental Estrangement: Investigating the Supernatural Body.” In Supernatural Studies. Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 97-112.

Cade, Octavia. (2023) “Évolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015) – Transgressive Reproduction.” In Marko Teodorski and Simon Bacon (eds.) The Deep [Genre Fiction and Film Companions series, Volume 11]. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 289-295.

Cade, Octavia. (2023) “The Impoverished Landscape: Navigating Absence and Ecological Resilience in Speculative Fiction.” In Hélice: Critical Thinking on Speculative Fiction. Volume 33, pp. 95-105.

Cade, Octavia. (2022) “Looking Back to Local Utopia: An Introduction.” In Erewhon: 150th Anniversary Edition. New York: Erewhon Press, pp. 1-29.

Cade, Octavia. (2022) “The Urban Reef: Breaking Down Barriers Between Green Spaces in Urban Environments.” In Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (eds.) Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, pp. 123-129.

Cade, Octavia. (2022) “Image and the Tree in Middle-Earth.” BFS Journal. Volume 23, pp. 42-54.

Yee, Ryn, and Octavia Cade. (2022) “Sexual Assault After Apocalypse: The Limited Logic of Natural Selection.” SFRA Review. Volume 52, Number 3, pp. 161-167.

Cade, Octavia. (2022) “The Ghosts of Coastlines Past: Eco-Poetry and the Oceanic Ecological Gothic.” Gothic Nature: Haunted Shores. Volume 3, pp. 46-68.

Cade, Octavia. (2021) “Ethics, Experimentalism, and Hybrid Purpose: Navigating Science and the Military in Star Trek: Discovery.” In Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory – Special Issue on Hybridity and Star Trek. Volume 23, Number 3, pp. 389-406.

Cade, Octavia. (2021) “Environmental Change as a Catalyst for Worldbuilding in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home.” In Francesca T. Barbini (ed.) Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Edinburgh: Luna Press Publishing, pp. 127-141.

Cade, Octavia. (2021) “Inoculation and Contagion: The Absence of Vaccination in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Supernatural Studies. Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 95-111.

Cade, Octavia. (2021) “Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An Afterword.” In Louise Economides and Laura Shackelford (eds.) Surreal Entanglements: Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction. New York: Routledge, pp. 107-123.

Cade, Octavia, and Meryl Stenhouse. (2020) “Humans as Ecological Actors in Post-Apocalyptic Literature.” MOSF Journal of Science Fiction. Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 47-59.

Cade, Octavia. (2020) “Confronting the Minotaur: Gender, Reconciliation, and the Labyrinth in Fantasy Literature.” BFS Journal. Number 21, pp. 7-20.

Cade, Octavia. (2019) “Moonlight and Silver Bullets: Twentieth Century Racial Purity in Werewolf Films”. In Frank Jacob and Verena Bernardi (eds.) All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, pp. 127-146.

Cade, Octavia. (2019) “Spring Again: The Problem of Evil and the End of Winter in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia”. In Francesca T. Barbini (ed.) A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Edinburgh: Luna Press Publishing, pp. 231-247.

Cade, Octavia. (2018) “Sacrifice in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence.” BFS Journal. Number 19, pp. 66-75.

Cade, Octavia. (2017) “Nature as Creative Catalyst: Building Poetic Environmental Narratives through the Artists in Antarctica Programme.” In Nicholas Holm and Sy Taffel (eds.) Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books: pp. 159-176.

Cade, Octavia. (2016) “Agency and the Consequences of Creation in Mark O’Connor’s Reef Poems.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 92-104.

Cade, O.J. (2016) “Sifting Science: Stratification and The Exorcist.” Horror Studies. Volume 7, Number 1, pp. 61-72.

Cade, O.J. (2015) “‘I Close the Mima’: The Role of Narrative in Harry Martinson’s Aniara.” Scandinavica. Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 91-114.

Cade, O.J. (2014) “Witnessing the Waste Land: Sight, Sound and Response in Edith Sitwell’s ‘Three Poems of the Atomic Age’.” UnderCurrents: the Journal of Critical Environmental Studies. Volume 18, pp. 18-24.

Cade, O.J. (2011) “Both Communal and Private: Access and Subversion of Access to Poetry in the Virtual Environment.” Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics. Number 1.

Cade, O.J. (2011) “Nature, Science and Technology in the Poetry of Cilla McQueen.” Ka Mate Ka Ora. Issue 10.

 

CONFERENCES

“The Lovecraftian Linguistics of Anglerfish: A Case Study.” At Haunted Shores: Aquatic Surfaces and Depths (online, April 2023).

“The Urban Reef: Metaphor and Transformation in Conservation.” At EmergencE/Y: ASLE 2021 (online, July-August 2021).

“Artist in Lockdown: Personal Experiences of Residency in Pandemic.” At Out of Bounds: An Exploration of Boundaries in Crisis (online, July 2021).

“The Ghosts of Coastlines Past: Eco-Poetry and the Oceanic Ecological Gothic.” At Haunted Shores: Coastlands, Coastal Waters, and the Littoral Gothic (online, March 2021).

“Living and Reading the Apocalypse: Ecological Disaster and Science Fiction.” At CoNZealand (online, July 2020).

“Observation and Conversation: Post-apocalyptic Literature and the Young Adult Audience.” At Humanities on the Brink (online, July 2020).

“Eco-Horror, Mutation, and the World Without Us.” At Superheroes Beyond (Melbourne, December 2018).

“Re/Constructing Natural History Through Travel Literature.” At New Historians (Wellington, August 2018).

“Seagrass Disturbance, Fragment Recovery and Recolonisation of Zostera muelleri Beds at Raglan Harbour, New Zealand.” At ERA 2016: Restoring Resilience (Hamilton, November 2016).

“From Peasant Mob to Supported Laboratories: The Scientist in Horror.” At New Research on Horror (Dunedin, November 2016).

“Galileo and the Surgeon General: Politics and Science in The West Wing“. At Revisiting Audiences: Reception, Identity, Technology (Dunedin, June 2016).

“New Zealand Restoration of Antarctic Huts: Hillary, Heritage, and the Most Distant Museums in the World”. At Finding New Zealand’s Scientific Heritage (Wellington, November 2015).

“From the Sky to the Stage: Galileo in the Theatre”. At Science and Society (Berkeley, November 2012).