YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW: THE FUTURIANS AND AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION IN THE 1940's

• Grant number: 17/15504-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: December 09, 2017
• End date: April 08, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Julio Cesar Pimentel Pinto Filho
• Grantee: Andreya Susane Seiffert
• Supervisor: Sherryl Vint
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/17754-3 - Yesterday's Tomorrow: The Futurians and American Science fiction in the 1940's, BP.DR

Abstract

This research project is linked to the ongoing project: "Yesterday's Tomorrow: The Futurians and American Science Fiction in the 1940s" developed in the Graduate Program in Social History of the University of São Paulo (USP) with the support of a fellowship awarded by FAPESP. As part of that ongoing project, it seeks to demonstrate the importance of a research internship abroad as a way of accessing the original publications of the research sources and also to expand these sources in order to deepen the discussions and thus enrich the work. To do so, it forecasts a four-month research period in The Eaton Collection, located at the University of California-Riverside. Considered one of the world's the largest collections of science fiction, it houses most of the publications made by members of The Futurians in the 1940s.