Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone

Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone is professor emerita of communication
at the University of Texas, Austin; founding core faculty and Wolfgang
Kohler professor of media and performance studies at the European
Graduate School; senior artist at the Banff Centre; University of
California Humanities Research Institute Fellow; and occasional
hell-raiser at the University of California, Santa Cruz and other
institutions of higher learning. She was a Sundance Institute invitee, a
member of the Bell Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Group,
conducted research on the neurological basis of vision for NIH, and was
the director for ten years of the International Conferences on
Cyberspace. She is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the
State of California, City of Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz Diversity
Center; and is the author of numerous publications in the fields of
science fiction, neurology, vision, architecture, new media, and
anthropology, including “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto”, a founding text for the academic discipline of Transgender Studies.