Kara
Kennedy is a researcher, writer, and educator in the areas of science fiction, digital literacy, and writing. She is an avid scholar of
Dune who has lectured and published on various topics including world-building. She posts literary analyses of
Dune for a mainstream audience on her blog DuneScholar.com. She is the author of
Women’s Agency in the Dune
Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).