Eliza Rose is Assistant Professor and Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Fellow in Central European Studies in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her research uses art, film, and science fiction to explore how the future was imagined in socialist Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. She is an alumna of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and her science fiction stories have been published in English, Polish, and French. The great paradox of her life is that she constantly thinks about outer space but would never want to travel there.