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About

Alison Sperling (b. USA 1984) lives between Tallahassee, Florida and Berlin, Germany. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University (2023-present) and a freelance artistic researcher in Berlin.

Ali received her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Her research focuses on literature and the arts and especially on weird and science fictions, with critical emphases on eco-criticism, queer and feminist theory, feminist science studies and new materialisms, and Black studies. She has published widely in scholarly academic journals and edited collections at the intersections of these fields, and writes regularly commissioned pieces for artist monographs, cultural events, and exhibitions. She has joined a number of podcasts and radio programs, and writes often for a variety of public forums and magazines online about art and culture. Ali is currently serving as a co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Science Fiction Film and Television, published by Liverpool University Press.

Previous positions include postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Technische Universität Dresden. She is currently at work on her first book manuscript, Weird Modernism.

Alison is also serving as the Vice President of the Sunshine State Biodiversity Group in Tallahassee, Florida, with founder and president Jeff VanderMeer. You can learn more about their efforts towards conservation, education, and environmental advocacy here: https://www.sunshinestatebiodiversitygroup.com