Ellen Grabiner, Ph.D., is a visual artist and writer, and Professor Emerita at Simmons University, Boston. As an artist/scholar Grabiner’s achievements range from creative works to more strictly scholarly endeavors Including a number of things in between. She’s exhibited paintings, drawings, image transfers,digital images, and animations from Boston to Berkeley, from New York to Washington D.C. Grabiner’s academic writing brings the eye of the artist/philosopher to the fantastical and the dystopian in James Cameron’s Avatar, Battlestar Galactica, the Handmaid’s Tale, and the films of Richard Linklater.