Sara Rich
Sara A. Rich is Associate Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a citizen of the Waccamaw Indian People and a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist and author of speculative fiction. Sara teaches courses on anti-colonialism, sci-art, shipwrecks and prehistoric and Indigenous arts and cultures. Her recent scholarship includes essays in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Heritage and Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology (which she also co-edited). Her most recent books include Mushroom (in the Bloomsbury series Object Lessons) and Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny (in the Amsterdam University Press series Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800).