Bibliography

The bibliography for Octavia E. Butler, listed in MLA 9 format, was last updated on February
16, 2024 by D’Yanna Coffey, graduate student at Georgia Southern University. Bibliography
updates will take place in February, June, and October.

Table of Contents

Butler’s Work................................................................................................................................. 2
Fiction........................................................................................................................................ 2
Non Fiction................................................................................................................................ 2
Adaptations.....................................................................................................................................3
Critical Biographies....................................................................................................................... 3
Interviews........................................................................................................................................4
Multimedia on Butler.................................................................................................................... 5
News................................................................................................................................................ 6
Obituaries....................................................................................................................................... 7
Peer-Reviewed Scholarship...........................................................................................................7
Articles.......................................................................................................................................7
Books....................................................................................................................................... 21
Chapters in Books.................................................................................................................... 22
Edited Collections....................................................................................................................29
Public Scholarship....................................................................................................................... 30
Reading Guides............................................................................................................................ 32
Butler’s Work

Fiction

Adulthood Rites. 1988. Grand Central Publishing, 2021.

Bloodchild and Other Stories. Seven Stories Press, 2005.

Clay’s Ark. 1984. Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Dawn. 1987. Grand Central Publishing, 2021.

Fledgling. 2005. Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

Imago. 1989. Grand Central Publishing, 2021.

Kindred. 1979. Beacon Press, 2003.

Mind of My Mind. 1977. Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Parable of the Sower. 1993. Grand Central Publishing, 2000.

Parable of the Talents. 1998. Grand Central Publishing, 2000.

Patternmaster. 1976. Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Survivor. Doubleday, 1978.

Unexpected Stories. 2014. Open Road Integrated Media Inc, 2020.

Wild Seed. 1980. Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Non Fiction

“A Few Rules for Predicting the Future.” Essence, May 2000, pp. 165–264.

“‘Devil Girl From Mars’: Why I Write Science Fiction.” MIT Black History, 19 Feb. 1998,

www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/transcript-devil-girl-mars-why-i-write-science-fiction-

octavia-butler-1998. Accessed 23 June 2023.

“Discovery, Creation and Craft.” Washington Post, 22 May 1983,

www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1983/05/22/discovery-creation-a

nd-craft/8f073141-122e-4d70-8ba1-9fe3f723b08b. Accessed 22 June 2023.

“Eye Witness.” O, the Oprah Magazine, May 2002,

www.oprah.com/spirit/octavia-butlers-aha-moment/all.

“Free Libraries: Are They Becoming Extinct?” Omni, vol. 15, no. 10, Aug. 1993, p. 4.

“How I Built Novels Out of Writer’s Blocks.” Writer’s Digest, June 1999,

www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/vintage-wd-how-i-built-novels-out-of-writers

-blocks. Accessed 26 Aug. 2023.

“On Racism.” NPR, 20 Aug. 2001, www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5245679.

Accessed 22 June 2023.

“The Lost Races of Science Fiction.” Octavia E. Butler by Gerry Canavan, University of Illinois,

2016, pp. 181–86.

“The Monophobic Response.” Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the Black

Diaspora, edited by Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Books, 2000, pp. 415–16.

Adaptations

Duffy, Damian, and John Jennings. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. ‎Abrams

ComicArts, 2021.

Duffy, Damian, and , and John Jennings. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation. ‎Abrams

ComicArts, 2018.

Kindred, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Janicza Bravo, FX Productions, 2022.

Critical Biographies
Canavan, Gerry. Octavia E. Butler. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
George, Lynell. A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler. Angel City

Press, 2020.

Zoboi, Ibi. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia E. Butler. Penguin, 2022.

Interviews
“Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005

Interview.” Democracy Now!, 2021,

www.democracynow.org/2021/2/23/octavia_butler_2005_interview.

Francis, Conseula, editor. Conversations With Octavia Butler. University Press of Mississippi,

2009.

Fry, Joan. “ Interview with Octavia Butler.” Poets and Writers Magazine, vol. 25, no. 2, 1997,

pp. 58-69.

House, Melville, editor. Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations.

Penguin Random House, 2023.

Kenan, Randall. “An Interview With Octavia E. Butler.” Callaloo, vol. 14, no. 2, 1991, pp.

495–504.

Littleton, Therese. Octavia E. Butler Plants an Earthseed. 1999,

web.archive.org/web/20070927084544/http://www.cyberhaven.com/books/sciencefiction

/butler.html.

Sanders, Joshunda. “Interview With Octavia Butler.” In Motion Magazine, 14 Mar. 2004,

inmotionmagazine.com/ac04/obutler.html

Stephen W. Potts, and Octavia E. Butler. “‘We Keep Playing the Same Record’: A Conversation

with Octavia E. Butler.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, 1996, pp. 331–38.
Tan, Cecilia. “Possible Futures and the Reading of History: A Conversation With the

Incomparable Storyteller Octavia Butler.” Sojourner, 1999,

ceciliatan.livejournal.com/15404.html.

Multimedia on Butler
“Adrienne Maree Brown: Octavia Butler’S Visions of the Future Have Transformed Generation

of Readers.” Democracy Now!, 2021,

www.democracynow.org/2021/2/23/octavia_butler_adrienne_maree_brown.

Octavia Butler, the Grand Dame of science fiction | It’s lit! PBS LearningMedia, 2022,

https://gpb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/octavia-butler-science-fiction-video/its-lit-seas

on-2/

Arablouei, Ramtin. “How Octavia Butler’s Sci-Fi Dystopia Became a Constant in a Man’s

Evolution.” NPR, 2021,

www.npr.org/2021/02/16/968498810/how-octavia-butlers-sci-fi-dystopia-became-a-const

ant-in-a-mans-evolution.

Cook, Raven. “Reflections in Black: Octavia E. Butler.” KUAF 91.3, 4 Oct. 2023,

www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-at-large/2023-10-04/reflections-in-black-octavia-e-butler.

Jamieson, Ayana, and Moya Bailey, hosts. Pattern Podcast, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network,

2019, https://soundcloud.com/thepatternpodcast/popular-tracks.

Miles, Tiya. “How Octavia Butler Told the Future.” The Atlantic, 2024,

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/octavia-butlers-guide-surviving-apocalypse/

677106.

Reagon, Toshi, and Adrienne Maree Brown, hosts. Octavia’s Parables, Kat Aaron, 2020,

https://www.readingoctavia.com/.
News

“Acclaimed Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Receives CCNY Langston Hughes Medal.” New York

Amsterdam News, vol. 96, no. 47, 2005, p. 21.

“Objects From OutKast, Octavia Butler and Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ on Display in National

Museum of African American History and Culture’s New ‘Afrofuturism’ Exhibition.”

Premium Official News, 2023.

“Perseverance Martian Landing Point Named after Octavia E Butler; Science-Fiction Author

Honoured in Nasa’s Chosen Name for Mars Rover’s Touchdown.” The Guardian

(London, England), 2021.

“Spelman College Hosts Octavia Butler Conference Feb 26-28 to Honor Author’s Life and

Legacy.” Marketwire Canada, 2016.

“‘These Are My Stomping Grounds’: The First Black-Owned Bookstore Opens in Octavia

Butler’s Home Town; Octavia’s Bookshelf Promotes Black Writers, Culture and Business

in Pasadena, Where the Famed Novelist Lived and Worked.” The Guardian (London,

England), 2023.

Boyd, Herb. “Octavia Butler’s Vision Honored in Lincoln Center’s ‘Parable of the Sower.’” New

York Amsterdam News, vol. 114, no. 29, 20 July 2023, pp. 17–25.

Garske, Monica. “‘Octavia E. Butler: Seeding Futures’ Coming to the New Children’s Museum

in San Diego, California.” SDtoday, 17 Aug. 2023.

Laing, Sarah. “Years after Her Death, Science-Fiction Writer Octavia E. Butler Lands on

Bestseller List; The Author Was a Keen Observer of Current Events and Wrote Stories

That Felt Implausible at the Time. Now, Readers Are Catching Up.” Globe & Mail

(Toronto, Canada), 2023, p. R10.

Nittle, Nadra. “A Pasadena School Is the Nation’s First Named After Octavia Butler — and It’s

Her Alma Mater.” The 19th, Nov. 2022.

Oxley, Dyer. “Lake Forest Park Names Street After Sci-fi Author Octavia E. Butler.” KUOW, 19

July 2023.

Potter, Sean. “NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time.” NASA, Mar. 2021.

SFWA. “The Inaugural Infinity Award Honoree: Octavia E. Butler.” Science Fiction and Fantasy

Writers Association, 27 Apr. 2023.

Tsioulcas, Anastasia. “Octavia Butler Wrote a ‘Parable’ That Became a Prophecy — Now It’s

Also an Opera.” NPR, 14 July 2023.

Obituaries
“In Memoriam Octavia Butler 1947-2006.” Women’s Review of Books, vol. 23, no. 6, 2006, p.

31.

Fox, Margalit. “Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 58.” The New York Times, 1

Mar. 2006,

www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/books/octavia-e-butler-science-fiction-writer-dies-at-58.ht

ml?smid=url-share.

Hampton, Gregory. “In Memoriam: Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006).” Callaloo, vol. 29, no. 2,

2006, pp. 246–48.

“Reflections on Octavia E. Butler.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 [112], Nov. 2010, pp.

433–42.

Peer-Reviewed Scholarship
Articles
Achachelooei, Elham Mohammadi, and Carol Elizabeth Leon. “The Past and ‘Discontinuity in

Religion’ in Octavia Butler’s Parables: A Feminist Theological Perspective.” Journal of

Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 68, no. 2, Aug. 2021, pp. 120–37.

Agustí, Clara Escoda. “The Relationship between Community and Subjectivity in Octavia E.

Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy,

vol. 46, no. 3, 2005, pp. 351–59.

Ahmed, Marlene Allen. “Wild Seed in Wild Times: Ruminations about Octavia E. Butler’s Novel

amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic.” South Central Review: The Journal of the South

Central Modern Language Association, vol. 38, no. 2–3, 2021, pp. 4–8.

Alexander, Phoenix. “Octavia E. Butler and Black Women’s Archives at the End of the World.”

Science Fiction Studies, vol. 46, no. 2 [138], July 2019, pp. 342–57.

Allison, Dorothy. “The Future of Female: Octavia Butler’s Mother Lode.” In Reading Black,

Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York:

Meridian, 1990, pp. 471-78.

Amer JubouriAl-Ogaili, Thamer, and Ruzbeh Babaee. “Mutinous Colonialism: Navigating

Self-Other Dichotomy in Octavia Butler’s Survivor.” Advances in Language and Literary

Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, 2015, pp. 166–70.

Askeland, Lori. “‘How Thoroughly He Has Stolen My Child’: Adoption and Abduction,

Religion, and Imperialism in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Novels.” Adoption and Culture,

vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 49–63.

Bailey, Moya, and Ayana A. H. Jamieson. “Palimpsests in the Life and Work of Octavia E.

Butler [Special Issue].” Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender, and the Black

International, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, p. v.

Bailey, Moya. “‘Shaping God’: The Power of Octavia Butler’s Black Feminist and Womanist

SciFi Visions in the Shaping of a New World-An Interview with Adrienne Maree

Brown.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, vol. 3, 2013.

Barba Guerrero, Paula. “Post-Apocalyptic Memory Sites: Damaged Space, Nostalgia, and

Refuge in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 48, no. 1

[143], 2021, pp. 29–45.

Barr, Marleen S. “Oy/Octavia: Or Keeping My Promise to Ms. Butler.” Callaloo, vol. 32, no. 4,

2007, pp. 1312–14.

Bast, Florian. “‘No.’: The Narrative Theorizing of Embodied Agency in Octavia Butler’s

Kindred.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 53, no. 2, 2012,

151–81.

Behrent, Megan. “The Personal Is Historical: Slavery, Black Power, and Resistance in Octavia

Butler’s KINDRED.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, vol. 46,

no. 4, 2019, pp. 795–828.

Brataas, Delilah Bermudez. “Becoming Utopia in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Xenogenesis’ Series.”

Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, vol. 35, no. 96, 2006, pp.

84–101.

Canavan, Gerry. “Bred to Be Superhuman: Comic Books and Afrofuturism in Octavia Butler’s

Patternist Series.” Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, vol. 25, 2013, pp.

253–87.

Comer, Todd. “The Domestic Politics of Disability in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Journal of

Narrative Theory, vol. 48, no. 1, 2018, pp. 84–108.

Cox, Sandra. “Sparks from the Tail of a Comet: Historical Materialism and Genetic Imperialism

in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Novels.” [Inter]Sections, vol. 19, 2016, pp. 48–76.

Curtis, Claire. “Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia.” Utopian Studies, vol.

19, no. 3, Penn State UP, June 2008, pp. 411–31.

Curtis, Claire P. “Utopian Possibilities: Disability, Norms, and Eugenics in Octavia Butler’s

Xenogenesis.” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2015, pp.

19–33.

Davidson, Carolyn S. “The Science Fiction of Octavia Butler.” SAGALA: A Journal of Art and

Ideas, vol. 2, no. 1, 1981, p. 35. In Octavia E. Butler, “OEB 327,” Octavia E. Butler

Papers.

Dayal, Smaran. "Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative: Xenogenesis and Planetary

Loss." American Studies, vol. 60 no. 3, 2021, p. 95-118.

Deman, J. Andrew. “Taking Out the Trash: Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed and the Feminist Voice

in American SF.” FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal Dedicated to

Critical and Creative Work in the Realms of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism,

Surrealism, Myth, Folklore, and Other Supernatural Genres, vol. 6, no. 2, 2005, pp.

6–14.

Dingledine, Don. “‘How Long Was It For You?’ Juneteenth, July 4th, and the Time Between in

Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and

Practice, vol. 13, no. 2, 2023, pp. 50–55.

Donaldson, Eileen. “A Contested Freedom: The Fragile Future of Octavia Butler’s Kindred.”

English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014, pp. 94–107.
Donawerth, Jane, and Kate Scally. ““You’ve Found No Records”: Slavery in Maryland and the

Writing of Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and

Fantasy, vol. 58, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1–19.

Dowdall, Lisa. “Treasured Strangers: Race, Biopolitics, and the Human in Octavia E. Butler’s

Xenogenesis Trilogy.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 [133], 2017, pp. 506–25.

Dubey, Madhu. “Octavia Butler’s Novels of Enslavement.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 46,

no. 3, Duke UP, Nov. 2013, pp. 345–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2345786.

Dutta, Suchismita. “Indelible Race Memories and Subliminal Epigenetics in Octavia Butler’s

Kindred.” [Inter]Sections, vol. 21, 2018, pp. 86–103.

Earhart, Nick. “‘When Apparent Stability Disintegrates’: Speculative Theology in Octavia

Butler’s Parable Series.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment,

vol. 29, no. 3, 2022, pp. 903–21.

Federmayer, Éva. “Migrants and Disaster Subcultures in the Late Anthropocene: An Ecocritical

Reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels.” Hungarian Journal of English and

American Studies: HJEAS, vol. 23, no. 2, 2017, pp. 347–69.

Ferreira, Maria Aline. “Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia

Butler.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 [112], Nov. 2010, pp. 401–15.

Fink, Marty. “AIDS Vampires: Reimagining Illness in Octavia Butler’s ‘Fledgling.’” Science

Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, Nov. 2010, pp. 416–32.

Flagel, Nadine. “‘It’s Almost Like Being There’: Speculative Fiction, Slave Narrative, and the

Crisis of Representation in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Canadian Review of American

Studies/Revue Canadienne d’Etudes Américaines, vol. 42, no. 2, 2012, pp. 216–45.
Foster, Frances S. “Octavia Butler’s Black Female Future Vision.” Extrapolation, vol. 23, 1982,

pp. 37-49.

Friend, Beverly. “Time Travel as a Feminist Didactic in Works by Phyllis Eisenstein, Marlys

Millhiser, and Octavia Butler.” Extrapolation, vol. 23, no. 1, 1982, pp. 50-55.

Gainer, M. G. “Critical Readings: Surviving Dystopia: Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood.”

Critical Insights: Survival, Sept. 2019, pp. 198–212.

Govan, Sandra Y. “Afterword.” Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler, Warner Books, 1980, pp.

298–306.

Govan, Sandra Y. . “Disparate Spirits yet Kindred Souls: Octavia E. Butler, ‘Speech Sounds,’

and Me.” Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and

Octavia E. Butler, edited by Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl, Aqueduct Press, 2013.

Govan, Sandra Y. . “Going to See the Woman: A Visit With Octavia E. Butler.” Obsidian III:

Literature in the African Diaspora, vol. 6–7, no. 1–2, 2005, pp. 15–36.

Govan, Sandra Y. . “Homage to Tradition: Octavia Butler Renovates the Historical Novel.”

MELUS, vol. 12, no. 1–2, 1986, pp. 79–96.

Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu. “The Dilemmas of Hope and History: Concrete Utopianism in Octavia

E. Butler’s Kindred.” Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender, and the Black

International, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 129–52.

Hodge, James L., et al. “Octavia E. Butler.” Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition,

2010, pp. 1–7.

Hua, Linh U. “Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist

Sentimentality in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” African American Review, vol. 44, no. 3,

2011, pp. 391–407.

Jos, Philip H. “Fear and the Spiritual Realism of Octavia Butler’s Earthseed.” Utopian Studies:

Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2012, pp. 408–29.

Katopodis, Christina. “Teaching for a Habitable Future with Octavia Butler’s Parable of the

Sower: ‘We’ll Have to Seed Ourselves Farther and Farther from This Dying Place.’”

English Language Notes, vol. 61, no. 1, 2023, pp. 77–94.

Kilgore, De Witt Douglas, and Ranu Samantrai. “Special Section on Octavia E. Butler.” Science

Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 [112], Nov. 2010, pp. 353–442.

Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja. “Secret Wounds: Time Travel in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.”

Résonances, vol. 14, 2013, pp. 167–82.

Lacey, Lauren J. “Octavia E. Butler on Coping with Power in Parable of the Sower, Parable of

the Talents, and Fledgling.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 49, no. 4,

2008, pp. 379–94.

LaCroix, David. “To Touch Solid Evidence: The Implicity of Past and Present in Octavia E.

Butler’s Kindred.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 40,

no. 1, 2007, pp. 109–19.

Hampton, Gregory J. “Lost Memories: Memory as a Process of Identity in the Fiction of Octavia

Butler.” CLA Journal, vol. 55, no. 3, 2012, pp. 262-278.

Hampton, Gregory J. “Vampires and Utopia: Reading Racial and Gender Politics in the Fiction

of Octavia Butler. CLA Journal, vol. 52, no. 1, 2008, pp. 74-91.

Helford, Elyce Rae. “‘Would You Really Rather Die Than Bear My Young?’: The Construction

of Gender, Race, and Species in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild.’” African American

Review, vol. 28, no. 2, Saint Louis University, 1994, pp. 259–71.
Hill, Rebecca A. “The Parable of Octavia Butler.” Voice of Youth Advocates, vol. 40, no. 3, 2017,

p. 38.

Hinton, Anna. “Making Do with What You Don’t Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia

E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents.” Journal of Literary and

Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, 2018, pp. 441–57.

Humann, Heather Duerre. “‘A Good and Necessary Thing’: Genre and Justice in Octavia

Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 19, no. 4,

Penn State UP, 2017, pp. 517–28.

Hurley-Powell, Meghan. ““We’re Never Trapped by Power”: A Plurality of Feminist Resistance

in Octavia Butler’s Dawn.” [Sic]: Časopis Za Književnost, Kulturu i Književno

Prevođenje/A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, vol. 10, no. 1,

2019.

Jameson, Misty L. “‘There Was Sense in That’: Making/Having ‘Sense’ in Octavia Butler’s

Kindred.” English Studies in Africa: A Journal of the Humanities, vol. 62, no. 1, 2019,

pp. 50–57.

Jamieson, Ayana, and Moya Bailey. “Octavia Butler, Part One [Special Section].” Women’s

Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 5–8, July 2018, pp. 695–764.

Jamieson, Ayana, and Moya Bailey. “Octavia Butler, Pt. II [Special Section].” Women’s Studies:

An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 48, no. 1–4, 2019, pp. 1–75.

Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki. “Is Religiosity a Black Thing? Reading the Black None in Octavia E.

Butler’s ‘The Book of Martha.’” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 55, no. 1, Penn State UP,

Jan. 2020, pp. 5–22.

Johns, Adam. J. “Becoming Medusa: Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood.” Science Fiction Studies,

vol. 37, no. 3 , 2010, pp. 382–400.

Johnson, Rebecca O. “African American Feminist Science Fiction.” Sojourner, vol. 19, no. 6,

1994, pp. 12-14. (includes an interview with Octavia Butler)

Jones, Brandon. “Between Earth and Sky: Atmospheric Ambiguity in Octavia E. Butler’s

Parable Series.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 27,

no. 4, 2020, pp. 690–714.

Jones, Cassandra L. “Memory and Resistance: Doro’s Empire, Mary’s Rebellion, and Anyanwu

as Lieu de Mémoire in Octavia E. Butler’s Mind of My Mind and Wild Seed.” Women’s

Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 5–8, 2018, pp. 698–718.

Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity. “Old and New Slavery, Old and New Racisms: Strategies of Science

Fiction in Octavia Butler’s Parables Series.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction

and Fantasy, vol. 52, no. 3, 2011, pp. 279–99.

Jue, Melody. “Scenting Community: Microbial Symbionts in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.”

Journal of Science Fiction, vol. 4, no. 1, July 2020, pp. 17–19.

Knutson, Lin. “Monster Studies: Liminality, Home Spaces, and Ina Vampires in Octavia E.

Butler’s Fledgling.” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 87, no. 1, 2018, pp. 214–33.

Kümbet, Pelin. “A Posthuman Vampire-Human Intra-Action in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.”

Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies/Ege İngiliz ve Amerikan

İncelemeleri Dergisi, vol. 25, no. 1–2, 2016, pp. 105–12.

Kurjatto-Renard, Patrycja. “Recovering from Amnesia in Octavia Butler’s Texts.” Babel:

Littératures Plurielles, vol. 40, 2019, pp. 197–221.

Levecq, Christine. “Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E.

Butler’s Kindred.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 41, no. 3, 2000, pp. 525–53.

Levy, Michael. “Green SF and Eco Feminism.” Robert Collins and Robert Latham, editors,

Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Annual, Westport, CN: Meckler, 1990.

Lillvis, Kristen. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Slavery? The Problem and Promise of Mothering in

Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild.’” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States,

vol. 39, no. 4, 2014, pp. 7–22.

Lundberg, Elizabeth. “‘Let Me Bite You Again’: Vampiric Agency in Octavia Butler’s

Fledgling.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, 2015, pp.

561–84.

Magedanz, Stacy. “The Captivity Narrative in Octavia E. Butler’s Adulthood Rites.”

Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 53, no. 1, 2012, pp. 45–59.

Manuel, Carme. “The Day of Doom and the Memory of Slavery: Octavia E. Butler’s Prophetic

Vision in Parable of the Sower.” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 10, 2004, pp.

111–24.

Marez, Curtis. “Octavia E. Butler, after the Chicanx Movement.” Women’s Studies: An

Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 5–8, 2018, pp. 755–60.

Menne, Jeff. “‘I Live in This World, Too’: Octavia Butler and the State of Realism.” MFS:

Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, 2011, pp. 715–37.

McDevitt, Kelly. “Childhood Sexuality as Posthuman Subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler’s

Fledgling.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, Jan. 2020, pp. 219–40.

McTyre, Robert E. “Octavia Butler: Black America’s first lady of science fiction.” Michigan

Chronicle, 1994, pp. PG.

Mickle, Mildred R. “Accepting the Self: The Sexual-Spiritual Balance in Octavia E. Butler’s

Survivor.” Xavier Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2007, pp. 21–33.

Miletic, Philip. “Octavia E. Butler’s Response to Black Arts/Black Power Literature and

Rhetoric in ‘Kindred.’” African American Review, vol. 49, no. 3, 2016, pp. 261–75.

Miler, Suzana Režić, and Sanja Runtić. “Body Memory and the De/Re-Construction of History

in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Folia Linguistica et Litteraria, vol. 17, 2017, pp. 79–92.

Mitchell, Angelyn. “Not Enough of the Past: Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia E.

Butler’s Kindred.” MELUS, vol. 26, no. 3, 2001, pp. 51–75. JSTOR,

https://doi.org/10.2307/3185557. Accessed 28 Jan. 2024.

Modestino, Kevin. “Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels and Genealogies of African American

Environmental Literature.” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, vol.

9, no. 1, 2021, pp. 56–79.

Morris, David. “Octavia Butler’s (R)Evolutionary Movement for the Twenty-First Century.”

Utopian Studies: Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2015, pp.

270–88.

Morris, Susana M. “Black Girls Are from the Future: Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E.

Butler’s Fledgling.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 3–4, 2012, pp.

146–66.

Nanda, Aparajita. “Power, Politics, and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood.”

Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, vol. 36, no. 3, 2013, pp.

773–88.

Nayar, Pramod K. “A New Biological Citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s

Fledgling.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 58, no. 4, 2012, pp. 796–817.
Obourn, Megan. “Octavia Butler’s Disabled Futures.” Contemporary Literature, vol. 54, no. 1,

2013, pp. 109–38.

Osherow, Michele. “The Dawn of a New Lilith: Revisionary Mythmaking in Women’s Science

Fiction.” NWSA Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 1999, pp. 68–83.

Papke, Mary E. “Necessary Interventions in the Face of Very Curious Compulsions: Octavia

Butler’s Naturalist Science Fiction.” Studies in American Naturalism, vol. 8, no. 1, 2013,

pp. 79–92.

Parker, Kendra R. “As the World Burns: ‘Checking in’ (An Annotated Letter to My Students

with Lessons from Octavia E. Butler).” CLA Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, 2020, pp. 162–68.

Pfeiffer, John R. “Octavia Butler Writes the Bible.” Shaw and Other Matters: A Festschrift for

Stanley Weintraub on the Occasion of His Forty-Second Anniversary at the Pennsylvania

State University, Susquehanna UP, 1995, pp. 140–52.

Pickens, Theri. “Octavia Butler and the Aesthetics of the Novel.” Hypatia, vol. 30, no. 1, 2015,

pp. 167–80.

Pickens, Theri. “‘You’re Supposed to Be a Tall, Handsome, Fully Grown White Man’:

Theorizing Race, Gender, and Disability in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.” Journal of

Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2014, pp. 33–48.

Podolsky, Marjorie J. “Octavia E. Butler.” Critical Survey of American Literature, Dec. 2016, pp.

410–16.

Raffel, Burton. “Genre to the Rear, Race and Gender to the Fore: The Novels of Octavia E.

Butler.” Literary Review, vol.38, 1995, p. 454.

Robertson, Benjamin J. “‘Some Matching Strangeness’: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of

History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3 , 2010, pp.

362–81.

Robinson, Chuck. “Minority and Becoming-Minor in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.” Science

Fiction Studies, vol. 42, no. 3, 2015, pp. 483–99.

Russell, Natalie. “Meeting Octavia E. Butler in Her Papers.” Women’s Studies: An

Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 48, no. 1–4, Jan. 2019, pp. 8–25.

Sáez de Adana, Francisco. “The Ambivalence of the Gene Trade in Octavia E. Butler’s

Xenogenesis Trilogy.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and

Environment, vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 93–101.

Salvaggio, Ruth. “Octavia Butler.” Suzy McKee Chamas, Octavia Butler, and Joan D. Vinge,

edited by Marlene S. Barr et al., Starmount House, 1986, pp. 1–44.

Salvaggio, Ruth. “Octavia Butler and the Black Science Fiction Heroine.” Black American

Literature Forum, vol. 18, no. 2, 1984, pp. 78-81.

Schalk, Sami. “Experience, Research, and Writing: Octavia E. Butler as an Author of Disability

Literature.” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, vol.

6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 153–77.

Schalk, Sami. “Interpreting Disability Metaphor and Race in Octavia Butler’s ‘the Evening and

the Morning and the Night.’” African American Review, Special Issue: Blackness &

Disability, edited by Theri Pickens, vol. 50, no. 2, 2017, pp. 139–51.

Schiff, Sarah Eden. “Recovering (from) the Double: Fiction as Historical Revision in Octavia E.

Butler’s Kindred.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and

Theory, vol. 65, no. 1, 2009, pp. 107–36.

Setka, Stella. “Phantasmic Reincarnation: Igbo Cosmology in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.”

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 41, no. 1, 2016, pp. 93–124.

Stark, Doug. “‘A More Realistic View’: Reimagining Sympoietic Practice in Octavia Butler’s

Parables.” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 61, no. 1–2,

2020, pp. 151–72.

Steinberg, Marc. “Inverting History in Octavia Butler’s Postmodern Slave Narrative.” African

American Review, vol. 38, no. 3, 2004, pp. 467–76.

Stewart, Anne. “Chapter 4. The Fourth World Resurgent: Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart and

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Angry Planet : Decolonial Fiction and the

American Third World, University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

Streeby, Shelley. “Radical Reproduction: Octavia E. Butler’s HistoFuturist Archiving as

Speculative Theory.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 5–8,

2018, pp. 719–32.

Streeby, Shelley. “Speculative Writing, Art, and World-Making in the Wake of Octavia E. Butler

as Feminist Theory.” Feminist Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, 2020, pp. 510–33.

Strong, Melissa J. “The Limits of Newness: Hybridity in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling.”

FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal Dedicated to Critical and Creative

Work in the Realms of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Surrealism, Myth,

Folklore, and Other Supernatural Genres, vol. 11, no. 1, 2011, pp. 27–43.

Terry, Jennifer. “Time Lapse and Time Capsules: The Chronopolitics of Octavia E. Butler’s

Fiction.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 48, no. 1–4, Jan. 2019, pp.

26–46.
Troy, Maria Holgrem. “NEGOTIATING GENRE AND CAPTIVITY: Octavia Butler’s

Survivor.” Callaloo, vol. 33, no. 4, 2009, pp. 1117–31. JSTOR,

www.jstor.org/stable/40962785.

Tweedy, Clarence W., III. “The Anointed: Countering Dystopia with Faith in Octavia Butler’s

Parable of the Sower and Parable of Talents.” Americana: The Journal of American

Popular Culture (1900-Present), vol. 13, no. 1, 2014.

Van Engen, Dagmar. “Metamorphosis, Transition, and Insect Biology in the Octavia E. Butler

Archive.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 5–8, 2018, pp.

733–54.

Vint, Sherryl. “Becoming Other: Animals, Kinship, and Butler’s ‘Clay’s Ark.” Science Fiction

Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 2005, pp. 281–300.

Whiteside, Briana. “Blogging about Octavia Butler.” CLA Journal, vol. 59, no. 3, 2016, pp.

242–50.

Whiteside, Briana. “Octavia’s First Afronaut: History, Resistance, and Black Futures.” MELUS:

Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 48, no. 1, 2023, pp. 46–69.

Wiggs, Kimber L. “The Trouble: Family, Genre, and Hybridity in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.”

Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 129–45.

Wood, Sarah. “Exorcizing the Past: The Slave Narrative as Historical Fantasy.” Feminist Review,

vol. 85, 2007, pp. 83–96.

Wood, Sarah.m “Subversion Through Inclusion: Octavia Butler’s Interrogation of Religion in

Xenogenesis and Wild Seed.” Femspec, vol. 6, no. 1, 2005, pp. 87–99.

Young, Hershini Bhana. “Performing the Abyss: Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and the Law.”

Studies in the Novel, vol. 47, no. 2, 2015, pp. 210–30.

Zaki, Hoda. “Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler.” Science

Fiction Studies Vol. 17, No. 2, 1990, pp 239-251.

Books

Bast, Florian. Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler.

Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, 2015.

Hampton, Gregory Jerome. Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens,

and Vampires. Lexington Books, 2010.

Nanda, Aparajita, and Shelby Crosby. God Is Change : Religious Practices and Ideologies in the

Works of Octavia Butler. Temple University Press, 2021.

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Octavia E. Butler: A Literary Companion. McFarland & Company

Publishing, 2022.

Thaler, Ingrid. Black Atlantic Speculative Fiction: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo

Hopkinson, Routledge, 2009.

Chapters in Books

Bast, Florian. “‘I Hugged Myself’: First-Person Narration as an Agential Act in Octavia Butler’s

‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night.’” Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for

the 21st Century, edited by Monica Michlin and Jean-Paul Rocchi, LIT Verlag, 2013, pp.

68–82.

Birns, Nicholas. “Octavia Butler: Fashioning Alien Constructs.” Twayne Companion to

Contemporary Literature in English, I: Ammons-Lurie; II: Macleod-Williams, edited by

R. H. W. Dillard and Amanda Cockrell, Twayne Publishers; Thomson Gale, 2002, pp. I:

153-62.
Boulter, Amanda. “Polymorphous Futures: Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy.” American

Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique, edited by Tim Armstrong, New York

University Press, 1996, pp. 170–85.

Brown, Jayna. “Our Place Is Among the Stars: Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of

Species.” Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds. Duke

University Press, 2021, pp. 83-110.

Decker, William Merrill. Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler.

Northwestern University Press, 2020, pp. 177-212.

Dimock, Wai Chee, et al. “Nonhuman Intelligence.” American Literature in the World: An

Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler. Columbia University Press, 2017, pp.

467-72.

Donner, Mathieu. “‘Open to Me. Maybe I Can Help’: Networked Consciousness and Ethical

Subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler’s Mind of My Mind.” Posthumanism in Young Adult

Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Postmodern World, edited by Anita Tarr and Donna R.

White, University Press of Mississippi, 2018, pp. 3–26.

Dunning, Stefanie K. “Chapter Four: Plant Life (Notes on the End of the World).” Black to

Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture. University Press of Mississippi,

2021, pp. 125-54.

Fiskio, Janet. “Ghosts and Reparations: Thinking through Enslavement and Climate Futures with

Octavia Butler.” Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice: Poetics of

Dissent and Repair, edited by Janet Fiskio, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 52–79.

Georgi, Sonja. “Posthuman Dystopia/Critical Dystopia: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series

(1993, 1998) and Xenogenesis Trilogy (1987-1989).” Dystopia, Science Fiction,

 Post-Apocalypse: Classics-New Tendencies-Model Interpretations, edited by Eckart

Voigts and Alessandra Boller, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2015, pp. 253–67.

Gibney, Shannon. “Science Fiction, Feminism and Blackness: The Multifaceted Import of

Octavia Butler’s Work.” The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the

Speculative, edited by Sandra Jackson and Julie E. Moody-Freeman, Peter Lang

Publishing Inc., 2011, pp. 100–10.

Gill, Josie. “Mutilation and Mutation: Epigenics and Racist Environments in Octavia Butler’s

Kindred and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” Biofictions: Race, Genetics and the

Contemporary Novel. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp.121-44.

Gonzales, Michael A. “Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler.” Dangerous Visions

and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, edited by Andrew Nette and

Iain McIntyre, PM Press, 2021, pp. 195–202.

Grewe-Volpp, Christa. “Octavia Butler and the Nature/Culture Divide: An Ecofeminist Approach

to the Xenogenesis-Trilogy.” Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on

the African American Environmental Imagination, edited by Sylvia Mayer, LIT Verlag,

2003, pp. 149–73.

Hall, Michael Ra-shon. “Chapter Four: Detours Through the Past: Traversing Paradigms in

Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Freedom beyond Confinement: Travel and Imagination in

African-American Cultural History and Letter.. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. pp.

139-58.

Harper, Amie Breeze. “The Absence of Meat in Oankali Dietary Philosophy: An

Eco-Feminist-Vegan Analysis of Octavia Butler’s Dawn.” The Black Imagination:

 Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative, edited by Sandra Jackson and Julie E.

Moody-Freeman, Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2011, pp. 111–29.

Harris, James. “Becoming Hybrid: Imperial Desire and Cultural Exchange in Octavia Butler’s

Adulthood Rites.” Future Humans in Fiction and Film, edited by Louisa MacKay

Demerjian and Karen F. Stein, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 49–64.

Harris, Trudier. “Chapter 8: Balance? Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Saints, Sinners,

Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature. Palgrave, 2001, pp.

151-75.

Hoeness-Krupsaw, Susanna. “Graphic Performances in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.”

Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative, edited by Leigh Anne

Howard and Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, Routledge, 2020, pp. 118–32.

Ibrahim, Habiba. “Vampires and Relics.” Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black

Life. New York University Press, 2021, pp. 81-122.

Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. “‘Not Our Own’: Sex, Genre, and the Insect Poetics of Octavia Butler’s

‘Bloodchild.’” Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. New York

University Press, 2020, pp 121-58.

James, Joy. “Captive Maternal Love: Octavia Butler and Science Fiction Family Values.”

Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory, edited by Robin Truth Goodman,

Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 185–99.

Lashley, Katherine. “The Strong, Disabled African American Slave in Octavia E. Butler’s

Kindred.” The Slave Narrative, edited by Kimberly Drake, Salem Press; Grey House

Publishing, 2014, pp. 175–87.

Lavender, Isiah, III. “Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler’s ‘The Evening

and the Morning and the Night.’” Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in

Science Fiction, edited by Isiah Lavender III, University Press of Mississippi, 2014, pp.

65–82.

Lee, Judith. “‘We Are All Kin’: Relatedness, Mortality, and the Paradox of Human Immortality.”

Immortal Engines: Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited

by George Slusser et al., The University of Georgia Press, 1996, pp. 170–82.

Lillvis, Kristen. “Essentialism and Constructionism in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling.” Practicing

Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre, edited by

Karen Hellekson et al., McFarland & Company Publishing, 2010, pp. 168–82.

Lillvis, Kristen. “Posthuman Multiple Consciousness in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction.”

Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination. University of Georgia Press,

2017, pp 79-97.

McEntee, Grace. “Butler, Octavia.” Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of

Literature by and about Women of Color, edited by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, Greenwood

Press, vol. 1 and 2, 2006, pp. 139-42.

Michel, Frann. “Ancestors and Aliens: Queer Transformations and Affective Estrangement in

Octavia Butler’s Fiction.” The Female Face of Shame, edited by Erica L. Johnson and

Patricia Moran, Indiana University Press, 2013, pp. 100–18.

Mickle, Mildred R. “The Politics of Addiction and Adaptation: Dis/Ease Transmission in

Octavia E. Butler’s Survivor and Fledgling.” Contemporary African American Fiction:

New Critical Essays, edited by Dana A. Williams, The Ohio State UP, 2009, pp. 62–81.
Mitchell, Renae. “MATERNAL FUTURES: Maternity and the Holy Book in Parable of the

Talents (1999) and Who Fears Death (2014).” Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse:

Novelistic Re-Visions of Dystopian Motherhood. Lexington Books, 2021.

Montgomery, Maxine Lavon. “Coming of Age on the Dark Side: Speculative Fictions of Black

Girlhood in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling.” The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination.

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp 17-64.

Moore, Marlon Rachquel. “‘What to Become?’ Religion, Masculinity, and Self-Determination in

a Visitation of Spirits, Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents.” Critical

Insights: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, edited by Margaret Sönser Breen, Salem Press,

2014, pp. 54–72.

Morris, David. “Smooth Dinosaurs versus Adult Humans: Biosocial Adaptation as Religious

Mission in Octavia Butler's Parable Novels.” Public Religions in the Future World:

Postsecularism and Utopia, University of Georgia Press, 2021, pp. 77-99.

Morris, Susana M. “‘Everything Is Real. It’s Just Not as You See It’: Imagination, Utopia, and

Afrofuturist Feminism in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘The Book of Martha.’” The Black

Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design, edited by Reynaldo Anderson

and Clinton R. Fluker, Lexington Books, 2021, pp. 77–90.

Moylan, Thomas. “Chapter 8: Octavia Butler’s Parables.” Scraps on Untainted Sky: Science

Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2000, pp. 223–45.

Nanda, Aparajita. “Re-Writing the Human-Animal Divide: Humanism and Octavia Butler’s

‘Amborg.’” The Human-Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and

Fiction, edited by Nandita Batra and Mario Wenning, Lexington Books, 2018, pp.

115–26.
Obourn, Milo W. “ Speculative Disabled Futures.” Disabled Futures: A Framework for Radical

Inclusion. Temple University Press, 2020, pp 103-130.

Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi. “Octavia’s Healing Power: A Tribute to the Late Great Octavia E.

Butler.” Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave

Trajectory, edited by Marleen S. Barr, Ohio State University Press, 2008, pp. 241–43.

Peel, Ellen. “‘God Is Change’: Persuasion and Pragmatic Utopianism in Octavia E. Butler’s

Earthseed Novels.” Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest

New-Wave Trajectory, edited by Marleen S. Barr, Ohio State University Press, 2008, pp.

52–74.

Pitts, Michael. “Masculinity Crossing Borders in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood.” Alternative

Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New Man. Rowman & Littlefield

Publishers, 2021.

Ramírez, J.Jesse. “How to Bring Your Kids Up Alien: Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy.”

Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad

Hope in the American Century. Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Robinson, Timothy M. “Octavia Butler’s Vampiric Vision: Fledgling as a Transnational

Neo-Slave Narrative.” Vampires and Zombies: Transcultural Migrations and

Transnational Interpretations, edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller,

UP of Mississippi, 2016, pp. 61–82.

Rojo, Myriam M. ““I’m Learning to Fly, to Levitate Myself. No One Is Teaching Me. I’m Just

Learning on My Own”: Women Agency in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and

Parable of the Talents.” Handmaids, Tributes, and Carers: Dystopian Females’ Roles

and Goals, edited by Myrna Santos, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 182–93.
Rosu, Anca. “Alienating Sex: The Discourse of Sexuality in the Works of Octavia Butler.” The

Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction, edited by Sherry

Ginn and Michael G. Cornelius, McFarland & Company Publishing, 2012, pp. 34–49.

Savage, Echo E. “‘We Pair Off! One Man, One Woman’: The Heterosexual Imperative in

Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy.” The Sex Is Out of This World: Essays on the

Carnal Side of Science Fiction, edited by Sherry Ginn and Michael G. Cornelius,

McFarland & Company Publishing, 2012, pp. 50–61.

Scheer-Schazler, Brigitte. “Loving Insects Can Be Dangerous: Assessing the Cost of Life in

Octavia Estelle Butler’s Novella ‘Bloodchild’ (1984).” Biotechnical and Medical Themes

in Science Fiction, edited by Domna Pastourmatzi, University Studio Press, 1999, pp.

314–22.

Sneed, Roger A. “Octavia Butler as Architect of Intersectional Afrofuturism.” The Dreamer and

the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought. Ohio State University Press,

2021, pp. 50-68.

Sorlin, Sandrine. “Stylistic Techniques and Ethical Staging in Octavia Butler’s ‘Speech

Sounds.’” The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity: New Perspectives on Genre Literature,

edited by Maylis Rospide and Sandrine Sorlin, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp.

82–94.

Stanley, Tarshia L. “Re-Read and Recover: Afrofuturism as a Reading Practice in George S.

Schuyler’s Black No More and Octavia E. Butler’s ‘the Book of Martha.’” Race and

Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society, edited by Patricia Ventura and

Edward K. Chan, Springer International Publishing AG, 2019, pp. 243–60.

Steiner, Enit K. “Expanded, Changed, But Not Weakened: Posthuman Prometheanism and

Racein Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis.” The Challenge of Change, edited by Margaret

Tudeau-Clayton et al., Gunter Narr Verlag; Stauffenburg Verlag Brigitte Narr GmbH;

Narr Francke Attempto Verlagsgruppe; Swiss Association of University Teachers of

English, 2018, pp. 123–42.

Stewart, Anne. “Chapter 4. The Fourth World Resurgent: Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and Octavia

Butler's Parable of the Sower.” Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third

World. University of Minnesota Press, 2022, pp. 141-74.

Tsai, Robin Chen-Hsing. “Technology, the Environment and Biopolitics in Octavia Butler’s

Xenogenesis.” Foreign Literature Studies/Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan Jiu, vol. 36, no. 6, 2014,

pp. 18–30.

Wachter-Grene, Kirin. “Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Queer ‘New Stories’ of the

‘Fourth Dimension of Citizenship.’” Apocalyptic Projections: A Study of Past

Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature,

edited by Annette M. Magid, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 40–60.

Williams, Dana A. Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays. Ohio State

University Press, 2009, pp. 62-81.

Edited Collections
To see the contributors for each edited collection, we have provided hyperlinks to the table of
contents where applicable. Otherwise, we have provided a list of contributors.

God Is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia Butler, edited by

Aparajita Nanda and Shelby Crosby, Temple UP, 2021. The contributors to this edited

collection are Gregory Hampton, Aparajita Nanda, Christopher Kocela, Charlotte Naylor

Davis, Mary M. Grover, Chuck Robinson, Keegan Osinski, Briana Whiteside, Ebony
 Gibson, Jennifer L. Hayes, Tarshia L. Stanley, Alexis Brooks de Vita, Brianna Thompson,

Phyllis Lynne Burns, Michael Brandon McCormack, and Shelby L. Crosby.

Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler,

edited by Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl, Aqueduct Press, 2013. The contributors to

this edited collection are Rebecca J. Holden, Nishi Shawl, Doris Davenport, Susan

Knabe, Wendy Gay Pearson, TJ Stewart, Timmel Duchamp, Luisah Teish. Steven Barnes,

Sandra Y. Govan, Candra K. Gill, Thomas Foster, Merrilee Heifetz, Kate Schaefer,

Lisbeth Gant-Britton, Nnedi Okorafor, Steven Shaviro, Tananarive Due, Shari Evans, and

Benjamin Rosenbaum.

Human Contradictions in Octavia E. Butler’s Work, edited by Martin Japtok and Jerry Rafiki

Jenkins, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. The contributors to this edited collection are Joshua

Yu Burnett, Stefanie K. Dunning, Allison E. Francis, Regina Hamilton, Heather Duerre

Humann, Martin Japtok, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, Beth A. McCoy, Micah Moreno, Karina A.

Vado, and tobias c. van Veen.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler, edited by Tarshia L. Stanley, Modern

Language Association of America, 2019. The contributors to this edited collection are

Tarshia L. Stanley, John Paul Riquelme, Matthew Mullins, Aparajita Nanda, Lauren J.

Lacey, Laurel Bollinger, Ximena Gallardo C., Ann Matsuuchi, Claire P. Curtis, Amy

Absher, Deborah Wood Holton, Bevin Roue, Laura Apol, Shreyashi Mukherjee, Edmond

Y. Chang, Susan M. Bernado, Sami Schalk, Beth A. McCoy, Kendra R. Parker, Rekik

Scholler-Mekonnen, Marleen S. Barr, Isiah Lavender III, and Kristen Lillvis.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gregory J. Hampton and Kendra R.

Parker, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. The contributors to this edited collection are
 Sandra Y. Govan, Gregory J. Hampton, Steven Barnes, Heather Thaxter, Sami Schalk,

Joe Heidenescher, Kendra R. Parker, Kitty Dunkley, Aparajita Nanda, Christina

Montgomery, Ellen C. Caldwell, Chriss Sneed, Ji Hyun Lee, Heather Osborne, Aryn

Bartley, Forrest Yerman, and Tananarive Due.

Public Scholarship
“The Female Sci-fi Writer Seen as a ‘Prophet.’” BBC, 6 Mar. 2023.

Abdurraqib, Hanif. “The Octavia Butler Journal Entry I Always Return To.” Vulture, 21 Nov.

2022.

Aguirre, Abby. “Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to ‘Make America Great

Again.’” The New Yorker, 26 July 2017.

Anderson, Hephzibah. “Why Octavia E Butler’s Novels Are so Relevant Today.” BBC Culture, 8

Aug. 2022.

Bahr, Sarah. “The Worlds of the ‘Remarkably Prescient’ Octavia Butler.” The New York Times,

27 Nov. 2022.

Bates, Karen Grigsby. “Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into the Story.” NPR, 10 July 2017.

Boston Review. “Octavia Butler’s Blasphemous Solidarities.” Boston Review, 21 June 2023.

Canavan, Gerry. “‘There’s Nothing New / Under the Sun, / but There Are New Suns’:

Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 June

2014.

Collins, Alyssa. “How Octavia E. Butler Mined Her Boundless Curiosity to Forge a New Vision

for Humanity.” The Conversation, 22 June 2022.

Da Costa, Cassie. “The Second Coming of Octavia E. Butler.” Vanity Fair, 9 Dec. 2021.
Daily, Ruby Ray. “The World Continues to Need Octavia E. Butler - Public Books.” Public

Books, 13 July 2022.

Díaz, Junot. “Unleashing Nightmares: Octavia Butler’s Heart of Darkness.” Boston Review, vol.

48, no. 1, 2023, pp. 37–45.

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Reading Guides

Cengage Learning Gale. A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's “Bloodchild.” Gale, 2016.

Cengage Learning Gale. A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's “Fledgling.” Gale, 2018.

Cengage Learning Gale. A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's “Kindred.” Gale, 2017.

Cengage Learning Gale. A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's “Patternmaster.” Gale, 2017.

Cengage Learning Gale. A Study Guide for Octavia Butler's “Speech Sounds.” Gale, 2018.