Katherine Buse
Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and the Center for Environment, Geography and Urbanization at University of Chicago
I think of SLSA as my interdisciplinary academic home—no other organization brings together such a vibrant range of humanistic and aesthetic approaches to science, technology, and the nonhuman world. My work intersects digital media, technoscience, science fiction, and the environment, from asking how climate scientists draw on the rhetorics and aesthetics of speculative world building to how video game form is participating in the development of new AI applications. These subjects have afforded me the chance to be part of many conversations at SLSA, from environmental media to games. I want to give back to SLSA as a Member-at-Large: representing and advocating for our diverse membership, supporting graduate students and independent scholars, and encouraging continued interdisciplinary exchange across thematic and methodological divides like the natural and the digital or art practice and textual analysis.