Editing Joanna Russ (section)

==Reputation and legacy==
Her work is widely taught in courses on science fiction and feminism throughout the English speaking world.  Russ is the subject of [[Farah Mendlesohn]]'s book ''On Joanna Russ'' and Jeanne Cortiel's ''Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction''.<ref name="sfwa" /> Russ and her work are prominently featured in Sarah LeFanu's'' In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction'' (1988). She was named to the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame]] in 2013.<ref name=sfadb/><ref name=sffhof2013/>

[[Gwyneth Jones (novelist)|Gwyneth Jones]] wrote a 2019 book about Joanna Russ that was part of the University of Illinois Press series called Modern Masters of Science Fiction.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joanna Russ Was Sci-Fi's Most Outspoken Feminist |url=https://www.wired.com/2020/02/geeks-guide-joanna-russ/ |website=Wired - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast |access-date=2 March 2020 |date=29 February 2020}}</ref>

In a 2004 essay about the connections between Russ's work and [[D. W. Griffith]]'s film ''[[Intolerance (film)|Intolerance]]'', [[Samuel R. Delany]] describes her as being "one of the finest - and most necessary - writers of American fiction" since she published her first professional short story in 1959.<ref>Delany, Samuel R. "Joanna Russ and D. W. Griffith." ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'', edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 432, Gale, 2018, pp. 188-194. ''Gale Literature Criticism''. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021. Originally published in ''PMLA'', vol. 119, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 500-508. {{subscription required}}</ref>

Her papers are part of the University of Oregon's Special Collections and University Archives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://around.uoregon.edu/story/academics/celebrating-csws-40th-le-guin-feminist-science-fiction-fellowship|title=Celebrating CSWS 40th with the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship|date=July 7, 2013 |publisher=University of Oregon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Archives West: Joanna Russ papers, 1907-2014 |url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv52000#IDAE1LUD |website=archiveswest.orbiscascade.org |access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref>