DR ALISTAIR RENNIE

Biography

Alistair Rennie is a PhD student and teaching assistant in Sonic Arts at the University of Aberdeen whose research explores the weird and the eerie in soundscape practices. He was initially an undergraduate student at Aberdeen University in the 1990s and graduated with a degree in English Literature in 1996. He then studied for a PhD in Literature at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the work of Robert Louis Stevenson in the context of structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative.

Alistair has published works of weird horror and fantasy fiction, including a novel (BleakWarrior) and short stories in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including Weird Tales magazine and the New Weird anthology. He is also known for his dark ambient music project, Ruptured World, and has released several albums on the renowned dark ambient record label, Cryo Chamber.