Latham was an English professor at the
University of Iowa and the
University of California, Riverside. Latham is the author of
Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (2002) based on his 1995
Stanford University Ph.D. thesis
Consuming Youth: Technologies of Desire and American Youth Culture. Latham is a co-editor of the
Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010), and editor of The
Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014) and
Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings (2017). He is senior editor and a contributor of the journal
Science Fiction Studies and an editor-at-large and a contributor for
Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2013, Latham received the
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service from the
SF Research Association. He was selected for the Clareson Award jury in 2016 and 2017. ==References==