Abstract

This chapter consists of a transcription of an interview with Professor Sherryl Vint, conducted by the collection’s editors, Nora Castle and Giulia Champion. In this discussion, the editors ask Vint to look back at her foundational work, Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (2010), which helped to catalyze a now flourishing and diverse field of work about animal studies in science fiction (sf). As well as discussing the state of the field at the time, the conversation considers how animal studies in sf has developed since, as well as how Vint’s own work and thinking on the topic has evolved, and particularly how it has done so alongside her other research interests in biopolitics, posthumanism, and sf studies.