Victoria N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist who writes about censored and controversial subjects with audacity, humor, and compassion. Bravely working to overcome complacency and conformity and to promote critical and creative thinking, tolerance and peace, she uses Huck Finn’s infamous statement of resolve as her writing motto : “All right then, I’ll go to hell.” Her latest novel, Locus Amoenus , is a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominee.
Alexander is also a philosopher of science. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, a Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities and a director at the Dactyl Foundation, working on new and emerging concepts in science and encouraging interaction between the sciences and the arts. She serves on the editorial boards of Biosemiotics journal (Springer Publishing) and Meaning Systems book series (Fordham University Press). Her latest work on the surprising non-utilitarian evolutionary mechanisms behind butterfly mimicry appears in Fine Lines: Nabokov’s Scientific Art , published by Yale University Press, which has received much praise from major international publications.The Permanent Press . See full CV .
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