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Dr. Amy Gaeta

white feminine looking person standing outside. a stone wall is behind her. she is wearing a denim jacket. she is smiling.

I am an academic, teacher, poet, and disability justice advocate. I am a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence and the Center for Drones and Culture at the University of Cambridge. I hold a Ph.D. in English and Visual Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have strong research interests in: Drone Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Feminist STS, Visual Cultures Theory, and 21st American Transnational Literatures and Cultures.

I am interested in stories and storytelling about the affective, sensorial, and psychological dimensions of human-technology relations in the contexts of surveillance and state power. My first book, Drone Life (under contract with University of Minnesota Press) theorizes civilian small drones as ones ripe with crip and feminist valences and failures. I am co-editing a volume titled Feeling Contemporary War situated at the intersection of media studies and cultural studies about the affective economies of martial life unevenly felt and distributed across civilian life. In poetry, I use disability theory and accessibility software to explore mental illness, desire, and the impossibility of “human.” My first poetry chapbook The Andy Poems (2021) was published Red Mare Press, and my second, Prosthetics & Other Organs (2023) was released by Dancing Girl Press.

The images on my homepage are from a short film I am developing called ‘small echo, bright shell, razor wing.’ It was shot by me and my small quadcopters over the course of several years. It is a film about the importance of technologies failing to return.

You can contact me: ag2403@cam.ac.uk