Mr Francis Gene-Rowe

Critical Media Practice

Game Design

Future-Oriented Media

Digital Cultures

Francis Gene-Rowe is a Teaching Fellow in Digital Media Practice at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Francis's research and practice centres on interventions against hegemonic imaginaries of subjecthood, technology, and futurity. Areas they have worked and published on include digital culture and big tech; ecocriticism and the energy humanities; queer game studies; feminist STS (science & technology studies) and critical posthumanism; anti-colonial epistemology and storytelling; cyberpunk culture; and critical utopia and dystopia. 

Francis has been involved in academic and alt-academic community building in UK and global science fiction studies for over a decade, via positions with the British Science Fiction Association, Science Fiction Research Association, and above all the London Science Fiction Research Association (LSFRC), which they co-direct.

At present, Francis' creative-critical practice incorporates tabletop game design, experimental poetry, graphic design, and oracle-making. A keen collaborator, they are currently involved with research and practice partnerships via their research group memberships at the University of Southampton, as well as with externally with the LSFRC, the Radical Dreams Network, and the Goblin Futures collective.