Interview with Lt. Col. Naomi Mercer by Robin Hobbs, Femspec Issue 16.1

Naomi Mercer is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, a veteran of the Iraq War, and an assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She earned her doctorate in literary studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013 and specializes in feminist dystopian and utopian writing. Mercer’s recently published book, Toward Utopia, explores critiques of religious fundamentalism in works of feminist science fi...