Dr. Leigha McReynolds is the Assistant Director for Academic Affairs for University Honors where she supports the program’s academic curriculum and teaches her own classes on science fiction, eugenics, genetics, and disability. She practices and advocates for ungrading and using science fiction to teach the humanities in interdisciplinary contexts and has received both the Impact and Innovation Award (2023) and the UH Mission Award (2024) recognizing her teaching and contributions to the University Honors community. Dr. McReynolds has published work in Disability in Science Fiction and Discovering Dune, the first edited collections of scholarly work on their respective subjects, and has been a panelist at the World Science Fiction Convention. In her free time, she snuggles with her English bulldog and ballroom dances.