Raino Isto (PhD 2019), conquering the academic science fiction world with two separate publications in leading journals

Raino Isto, who graduated last year (spring 2019) from the Department with a PhD in modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe and whose dissertation, "Monumental Endeavors: Sculpting History in Southeastern Europe, 1960-2016," received the

Raino Isto, who graduated last year (spring 2019) from the Department with a PhD in modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe and whose dissertation, "Monumental Endeavors: Sculpting History in Southeastern Europe, 1960-2016," received the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award, continues to blaze new and exciting trails. In the space of a few months, Raino has been published in, as he puts it "two of the big three" scientific fiction academic journals, which is quite impressive for an art historian. In both cases, the attentive reader will note that Raino's thematic intellectual interests have not strayed all that far from his work studying monuments and monumental form in eastern Europe. In Science Fiction Studies, vol.46, no.3 (November 2019), pp.490-510, Raino tackles "In the Valley of the Time Tombs: Monumentality, Temporatoyu and History in Science Fiction" (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5621/sciefictstud.46.3.0490), while "'I Will Speak in Their Own Language': Yugoslav Socialist Monuments and Science Fiction," appears in the most recent issue of Extrapolation vol. 60, no.3 (December 2019), pp.299-324.

Congratulations Raino!