Alison Humphrey plays with story across drama, digital media, and education. Since starting out as an intern at Marvel Comics, she has directed classical and live-mocapped interactive theatre, produced alternate reality games, and written transmedia television.

The research-creation dissertation for her PhD in Cinema and Media Arts, titled “The Shadowpox Storyworld as Citizen Science Fiction: Building Co-Immunity through Participatory Mixed-Reality Storytelling,” centred on a mixed-reality storyworld co-created with young people on three continents, imagining immunization through a superhero metaphor. For this work, she won the Governor General's Gold Medal, York's Dissertation Prize, and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, and was nominated for the CAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Her ongoing research interests include applying this “citizen science fiction” methodology to the social challenges of vaccination, antimicrobial resistance, and climate change.

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