graduated in American Studies, political sciences and sociology at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt / Main, Ph.D. in Gender Studies from the University of Basel with a thesis on cyborg visions in the works of Donna Haraway and in SFs feminisms. She published widely on cyborgs, queer_feminist and afrofuturist science fictions, feminist technosciences and queer femininities. Since 2000 she lectures at various universities in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. She translates academic texts from English to German, since 1996 with the queer_feminist collective gender et alia (genderetalia.net) and sometimes earns a living as a copy editor of academic texts (klarunddeutlich.com). Dagmar Fink is a founding and board member of the association of feminist scholars in Austria (vfw.or.at) as well as board member of the Gender Studies Association Austria (oeggf.at)