Adam McLain

Adam McLain is a PhD student in the department of English at the University of Connecticut and an incoming 1L at UConn Law. He researches and writes on dystopian literature, legal theory, and sexual justice. He has a BA in English, editing, and women’s studies from Brigham Young University, a master of theological studies, emphasizing in women, gender, sexuality, and religion, from Harvard University, and a MA in English from the University of Connecticut.

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Published: Review of Docile

In the spring issue of SFRA Review, I published a review of K. M. Szpara’s Docile.

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Published: Reviews of She-Ra and Apocalypse Nyx

In February, the SFRA Review published Volume 51, number 1, which contains two of my reviews in it.

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Published: Dialogue Book Report #4: Recent books on LGBTQ issues and Mormonism

In June, I was able to record a podcast with two of my favorite scholars on Mormonism, Jaclyn Foster and Conor Hilton. The podcast is through Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. We discussed Latter-day Saint books that intersect with LGBTQ+ topics and had a great discussion.

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Published: Review of Is He Nuts?

I read Is He Nuts? Why a Gay Man Would Become a Member of the Church of Jesus Christ recently and wrote a review that the Association for Mormon Letters picked up.

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Published: SFRA 2019 Conference Paper

Over the summer, I attended the Science Fiction Research Association's conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, at Chaminade University. It was a lot of fun, and I met some really great people who are doing very endearing, fundamental, and needed work on texts that I love so much.

Essaying; or, Why I Blog

To Think

Writing is a spiritual experience. It is a movement toward greater understanding of myself and the world around me. It is a journey toward apotheosis as I come to know my humanity better through the words I write. I write because it allows me to ruminate on a subject, not coming to a definitive conclusion, but rather opening the door to understanding, even in just a little way, the simple complexity and complex simplicity of the universe that surrounds us.

To Share

Writing is a communal experience. It is meant to communicate thoughts across words in order to form other thoughts in other beings. Those thoughts do not come perfectly thought-for-thought, word-for-word, but in their imperfection, there is a connection, a community that is formed between you and me. A joining. A unity.

To Experience

Writing is an experience. Taking the time to consider something and then to write about it allows one to experience and re-experience an event, a moment, a text.