Farah Mendlesohn

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Farah Mendlesohn is a British academic and writer on science fiction. She was the editor of Foundation - The International Review of Science Fiction from 2002 to 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, which she edited with Edward James, won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Related Book.

Mendlesohn is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at Middlesex University and writes on the history of American religions and American science fiction. She formerly was Reviews Editor of Quaker Studies. She is also the author of:

• Quaker Relief Work in the Spanish Civil War (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)
• Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition (New York: Routledge, 2005)
• Rhetorics of Fantasy (Middletown, C.T.: Wesleyan University Press, 2008)

She is the editor of the following books:

• Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction (London: Rackstraw Press, 2006)
• Polder: A Festschrift For John Clute and Judith Clute (Baltimore: Old Earth Books, 2006)
• The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) with Edward James
• The True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod (Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 2003) with Andrew Butler
• The Parliament of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5 (Reading: Science Fiction Foundation, 1998) with Edward James

She received her D.Phil. in History from the University of York in 1997.