Jennifer Rea of the University of Florida and Andrew Ferguson of the University of Virginia have been chosen as recipients of the second annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowships.

The award, named after feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin, supports travel for research with the works of feminist science fiction authors housed in the UO’s Knight Library. The fellowship is supported by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Robert D. Clark Honors College and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives.

Rea is an associate professor of classics at the University of Florida. She had written a number of books, including her latest, “Perpetua’s Journey.” Rea received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and is working on another book, titled “Empire without End: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Vergil.”

Ferguson is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Virginia. His work has appeared in “Textual Cultures,” “Hypermedia Joyce” and “Science Fiction Studies.” He is currently working on a biography of American science fiction writer R. A. Lafferty.