Alice Centamore

Biography

Alice Centamore is a PhD student researching lesbian and feminist communities in 1970s and 80s North America. Other ongoing projects include the republication of writer and activist Monique Wittig’s work in English and a book on the Chicago Janes, an underground group fighting for reproductive justice in the pre-Roe era.

In Fall 2023, she co-curated an exhibition on Dick Higgins’s publishing house, Something Else Press (1963-74), at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and co-edited the accompanying catalog. She is also the editor of A Something Else Reader (2022) and Fluxus Newspaper (2024), both published by Primary Information. Alice holds a BA in Art History with high honors from New York University and an MA from the EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) in Paris.