Sandy Stone
Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Sandy Stone) is an academic theorist, artist, and performer, currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Concurrently she is Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS, senior artist at the Banff Centre, and Humanities Research Institute Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Stone pursued successful multiple careers in film, music, experimental neurology, writing, engineering, and computer programming.
Stone is transgender and is generally considered the founder of the academic discipline of Transgender Studies. She has been extensively profiled in ArtForum, Wired, Mondo2000, and other publications.
