About my Teaching and Writing
Alf Seegert -- Ph.D, English; M.A., English; M.S., Environmental Philosophy
Hi! I am Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of English at the University of Utah and Affiliate Professor for the Division of Games. My course topics include virtuality and nature, enchantment, fantasy, and video game narratives. 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.
- 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. I think it's become all the more pertinent since the novel The Covenant of Water came out. You can find one version here.
- Here are a few of my finalists in the Bulwer-Lytton (Bad) Fiction Competition.