About the Artist
Alicia Puglionesi is a Baltimore-based historian and poet whose work explores phenomena of
haunting in a disenchanted world. She holds a PhD in the History of Science, Technology, and
Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. Her essays and nonfiction have appeared in Atlas
Obscura, Motherboard, History.com, The Public Domain Review, The New Inquiry, and The
Point. These pieces often seek the deeper meanings inscribed within overlooked sites, strange
events, or forgotten life stories, opening up new perspectives on American experience.
Her first book, forthcoming from Stanford University Press, traces the origins of parapsychology
in the United States. Republic of Experience: Citizen Science at the Limits of the Mind reconstructs
public participation in the early decades of academic psychology, when scientists collaborated with
people across the country to document the phenomena of telepathy and clairvoyance. She has also
published a novella entitled Krall Krall.
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Artist's Statement
The author is a is a nonfiction writer and poet whose work explores phenomena of haunting in a disenchanted world. They use historical material to reveal the importance of mystery and uncertainty in modern life, engaging persistent questions of faith and doubt, orthodoxy and marginality. This work combines rigorous research with formal experiment, using the creative nonfiction form in a way that is not explicitly memoiristic, but rather, weaves together a plurality of voices living and dead.
