About my Teaching and Writing

Alf Seegert -- Ph.D, English; M.A., English; M.S., Environmental Philosophy 

Hi! I am an Associate Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of English at the University of Utah. My course topics include virtuality and nature, enchantment, critical theory, fantasy, weird tales & fantastic fiction, and video game storytelling. My research on ecocriticism and cyberculture explores how our use of interfaces alters our sense of body, space and place -- and how narratives represent these effects. 

My essays have been published in various journals and anthologies, including Western Humanities Review, The Journal of Ecocriticism, The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and the anthologies Philip K. Dick and Philosophy and C.S. Lewis and the Imaginative World.

I am an Affiliate Professor with Entertainment Arts and Engineering.
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• My current CV.
• My profile (including published papers) at academia.edu.
• My faculty profile at the University of Utah.
• An older essay of mine called "The Problem of Painlessness: What Leprosy Can Teach Us About Caring for the Earth" was originally published in Catalyst Magazine. Since then, it has been floating around the web in various places in various incarnations. You can find one version here.
• Here are a few of my finalists in the Bulwer-Lytton (Bad) Fiction Competition.