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Astrid Schrader

Dr. Astrid Schrader

Landhaus Fellow

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Astrid Schrader is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter. She works at the intersections of feminist science studies, human-animal studies, new materialisms, and posthumanist theories. Her work explores questions of responsibility, care, and agency in scientific knowledge production, new ontologies, the relationship between anthropocentrism and conceptions of time, and questions of environmental justice. Astrid has been particularly interested in scientific research on marine microbes. In her current project “Caring with Haunted Microbes,” she develops new theoretical approaches in science and technology studies (STS), combining “agential realism” and “biodeconstruction.” Working with artists and marine scientists, she also seeks to establish new approaches to and methodologies in cross-disciplinarity.

RCC Research Project: Caring with Haunted Microbes: Transformative Times in the Anthropocene

Selected Publications:

  • “Elemental Ghosts, Haunted Carbon Imaginaries, and Living Matter at the Edge of Life.” In Reactivating Elements, Substance, Process and Method from Chemistry to Cosmology, edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers, 108–130. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
  • “Marine Microbiopolitics: Haunted Microbes before the Law.” In Blue Legalities, edited by Irus Braverman and Elizabeth Johnson, 255–273. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • “Microbial Suicide: Towards a Less Anthropocentric Ontology of Life and Death.” In “Indeterminate Bodies”, edited by Claire Waterton and Kathryn Yusoff. Special issue, Body & Society 23, no. 3 (2017): 48–74.
  • “Abyssal Intimacies: How (Not) To Care about Deformed Leaf Bugs in the Aftermath of Chernobyl?” Social Studies of Science 45, no. 5 (2015): 665–90.
  • “The Time of Slime: Anthropocentrism in Harmful Algal Research.” Environmental Philosophy 9, no. 1 (2012): 71–94.
  • “Responding to Pfiesteria piscicida (the Fish Killer): Phantomatic Ontologies, Indeterminacy and Responsibility in Toxic Microbiology.” Social Studies of Science 40, no. 2 (2010): 275–306.