Rebekah Sheldon is a theorist, teacher, and curator of intellectual communities. Whether they happen in a classroom, a bar, a queer dance club, or a public square, her events build worlds and make magic as people participate in the joyful labor of thinking together. 

 

World-building and magic-making are also the focus of her scholarly work in feminist, queer, and trans science fiction studies and occult studies. Her first book, The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe, asks what happens to the child's figuration of the future under conditions of ecological anxiety. She is currently at work on two projects in occult studies: an edited collection, Esoteric Inhumanisms, with Nathan Snaza and Tess Given, and a new book, We Sorcerers: Magic as Method, that argues for scholarship as a form of magic. 

 

She is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University.