Alejo Stark is a researcher, teacher, writer, and organizer based in Salt Lake City. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Utah.
His research explores the relations between science and culture. He is fascinated by how science is translated, repurposed, and encountered by other practices, such as art, politics, and philosophy. He is currently working on a book that theorizes these effects of the sciences in 20th and 21st century Latin America.
As a first-generation immigrant student transferring from Miami Dade Community College, he graduated with an ScB in Physics and a BA in Africana Studies from Brown University. At Michigan, he pursued a similarly expansive program of study, earning a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and an M.A. in Philosophy.
But it was in his Ph.D. work in Romance Languages and Literatures that he combined his interests in the history and philosophy of science and how these fields shape and are shaped by current debates within Indigenous and Latin American Studies.
Alejo’s research has been published in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), Consecutio Rerum, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, Décalages, Demarcarciones, Otro Siglo: Revista de filosofía, Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science, New Global Studies, and Chasqui: Revista de literatura y cultura latinoamericana e indígena.
His public writing and interviews have been featured in Verso, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacobin, Commune Magazine, In These Times, and Abolition Journal.