Emily Selove
Emily Selove (PhD 2012, UCLA) is an Associate Professor in Medieval Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Exeter. She is also the convener of the University of Exeter’s Centre for the study of Magic and Esotericism. Her recent research has focused on a 13th-century Arabic grimoire, the Kitāb al-Shāmil wa-baḥr al-kāmil (Book of the Complete) by Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī (d. 1229). This multi-cultural, multi-lingual guide to cursing, healing, and harnessing the power of stars, angels, jinn, and devils, was conceived at the crossroads of many magical and religious traditions, and serves as the intersection at which multiple scholarly methodologies and disciplines can intersect today.
Dr. Selove is interested in psychedelic and ritual magical means by which to form relationships with non-human communities or to access alternative realities, including the realm of dreams. In future research, she hopes to explore alternative epistemologies, embodied sources of knowledge, and creative approaches to pedagogy arising from psychedelic and/or magical worldviews.
