Lilith Acadia is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan-Jiao Tong Joint Institute currently writing a monograph on the construction of religion in science fiction and editing an anthology on Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturism. After graduating from Smith College (having written a philosophy honors thesis on Meister Eckhart), Lilith held a Research Fulbright in Germany, received a graduate diploma in philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, an MSt in women’s studies from the University of Oxford, and earned a PhD in rhetoric from UC Berkeley.