Amy H. Sturgis earned her Ph.D. in Intellectual History from Vanderbilt University and specializes in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Gothic and Indigenous American Studies. She contributes the “Looking Back on Genre History” segment to the Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa podcast. Dr. Sturgis is also the author of four books and over sixty essays.
Her most recent works are the co-edited anthologies Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away (both 2023 from Vernon Press). Dr. Sturgis lives with her husband in the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia. Her official website is amyhsturgis.com.
Works in the Collaboratory:
- A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand lectures
- Dark Academia lectures
- Exploring Star Trek lectures
- Literary Copernicus: The Cosmic Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft lectures
- Meet the Last Man lectures
- Science Fiction, Part 1
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson lectures
- The Meaning of Star Wars lectures
- The Potter Saga lectures