Dr. Amy Gaeta

I am an academic, teacher, poet, and disability justice advocate. Currently, 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.

Specifically, my research attends to the affective and psychological dimensions of human-technology relations in the contexts of surveillance and state power. My first book, Drone Life (in progress) newly theorizes the human-technology relationship as one ripe with crip and feminist valences. 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. I divide my time among Cambridge, UK, Boston, MA, and the internet. You can contact me via email at ag2403@cam.ac.uk