In my monograph, I investigate the mediations of water in transplanetary science fiction literature and cinema. I delve into the discussions of the Anthropocene, nonhuman agency, ecological trauma, and gender in the narratives imagined in geographies beyond Earth. My research focuses on the imaginaries of water and ice and their entanglements with human bodies and is informed by new materialism, posthuman feminism, and postcolonial studies.

My research attempts to see how the alienating and transcendental tropes of water and outer space in narratives located beyond our planet reproduce environmental anxieties, offer alternatives to power hierarchies, and challenge the dominant anthropocentric understanding of fiction. In my monograph, I examine Isaac Asimov’ “The Martian Way” (1952), Greg Egan’s “Oceanic” (1998), Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean (1986) and the films Interstellar (2014) and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002).