Melanie Sehgal is Professor of Literature, Science and Media Studies at Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder). Holding a PhD in Philosophy from the Technical University of Darmstadt, she is the author of Eine situierte Metaphysik. Empirismus und Spekulation bei William James und Alfred North Whitehead (Konstanz University Press, 2016). Her work focuses on forms of speculative thinking beyond the nature/culture divide, with particular interest in classical pragmatism, process philosophy, science, and technology studies, as well as new materialist feminist thought. Since 2012 she has been hosting the workshop and lecture series “Experimental Speculations/Speculative Experimentations” in Frankfurt/Oder and Berlin with guests such as Xavier Le Roy, Isabelle Stengers, and Vicki Kirby. Together with the artist Alex Martinis Roe, she is leading the experimental working group “FORMATIONS” at the HKW, which is exploring ways of knowing beyond modern disciplinary habits of thought. She is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica, which is reexamining critical theory and critique under the conditions of the twenty-first century. Her current research explores speculative histories and futures of aesthetics beyond modern bifurcations.