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Alisha Piercy
PhD Student
Cultural Studies
Alisha Piercy is a fiction writer and visual artist in Tioti脿:ke/Montr茅al in her second year PhD in Cultural Studies (Research-Creation) at Queen鈥檚. Her research areas include hauntology, spectropolitics, claiming bad kin, Indigenous and non-western speculative/sci-fi worlding and Critical Animal Studies. In her doctoral work, in which theory interweaves with fiction, Alisha re-imagines the future through a series of creative 鈥渉aunting鈥 gestures. By centering spectral kinship and speculative worlding compositions as tools for ethnographic practice, she is exploring what it means to live with ghosts everyday in situated environments and across a plurality of dimensions, hoping to bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous hauntologies into conversation.