Radical Transdisciplinarity, the Speculative Imagination and the Polycrisis

Vandana Singh is a theoretical physicist by training, a transdisciplinary scholar of climate change, and a writer of speculative fiction. She is a professor of physics and environment at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. For more than a decade she has been working on a transdisciplinary, justice-centered pedagogy of climate change at the intersection of science, society and ethics.  Her short stories have been published in numerous venues, including three collections, and have been reprinted in a number of Year’s Best anthologies. Her work has earned an Otherwise Honor and a Parallax award.  Recent books include the academic monograph Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice (Routledge, January 2024), and fiction collections Utopias of the Third Kind (PM Press 2022) and the Philip K. Dick award finalist Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories (Small Beer Press 2018).