"Mental health results from the fulfillment of archetypal goals."

- Anthony Stevens and John Price, Evolutionary Psychiatry (2000)

"Like the T cells of the body, the healthy psyche fights off infection, rejecting false voice and false relationships."

- Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure (2002)

 

"When we have knowledge, don't we lose everything but knowledge?" she asked pathetically. "If I know about the flower, don't I lose the flower and have only the knowledge? Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge? And what does it mean to me, after all? What does all this knowing mean to me? It means nothing."
"You are merely making words," he said; "knowledge means everything to you. Even your animalism, you want it in your head..."

- D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1920)

Education

Master of Arts, Developmental Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY; May 1993

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
Barnard College, Columbia University
New York, NY; May 1989

 Editor
Entelechy: Mind and Culture
August 2003–present

Founder and editor of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, a Darwinian-touched online journal of philosophical/psychological ideas expressed artfully and creatively.

Publications

 Trine Erotic
A novel (biofiction) which explores evolutionary theory. Vivisphere Publishing, 2002. www.vivisphere.com

“Beyond Paradox”
A book review of Colin Talbot’s The Paradoxical Primate. Metapsychology Online; 2005. www.metapsychology.net

“An Evolutionary Mind”
An essay on evolutionary psychology, etc. Metanexus Online Journal; 2005. www.metanexus.net

Editor’s Musings
Various essays; Entelechy: Mind & Culture www.entelechyjournal.com

Chronogram Magazine
Various articles. www.chronogram.com

Halfmoon Review
Excerpts from short stories and a novella. www.halfmoonreview.com

 The Art of the Interview by Martin Perlich. Empty Press, 2003.
Edited and copyedited. www.emptypress.com

 CUNY in-house publications
The Places You Can Go; Much Ado About Writing; Science Getaways; and worked on It’s Up to Us, a curriculum which can also be found on the Internet.

Forthcoming:

 An Evolutionary Mind; 2006 by Imprint Academic/UK; Societas Series: Essays in Political and Cultural Criticism.

 “The Role of Stimulus Specificity on Infidelity Reactions: Seeing is Disturbing" (2006)
Psychology, Evolution, and Gender; J. Landolfi, G. Geher, A. Andrews.

Brazilian Portuguese translation of Trine Erotic; Geração Books. (2006)

Membership

Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Davis, CA
New York Academy of Sciences. New York, NY
Education Network. New Paltz, NY
SUNY New Paltz Adjunct Faculty Association. New Paltz, NY.
New Paltz Community Cultural Cooperative. New Paltz, NY.
United University Professions. New Paltz, NY.
EvoS (Evolutionary Studies) SUNY/New Paltz committee member.
One Book, One New Paltz committee member.
FMLA (Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance) adviser.
MA-thesis adviser.
Our Hudson Valley Network founding member.
Unison, New Paltz.

Panels/Talks/Readings

 Ariel Booksellers, reading from Trine Erotic; April 22, 2002
FMLA’s 4^th Annual The F-word: This is What a Feminist Looks Like. Guest speaker; October 26, 2005
One Book, One New Paltz discussion leader, SUNY New Paltz; November 2, 2005.
Ariel Booksellers, reading from Trine Erotic; November 11, 2005
The Roundtable with Doug Grunther, WDST (101.5 FM), guest; November 13, 2005.

Praise for Trine Erotic

•  Review
   

• "Trine Erotic is a beautiful structure of nested narratives. Reading it is like awakening from one dream into another. Evolutionary psychology teaches that narrative was the primal form of speech, and that we learned to speak in order to tell stories. But Trine Erotic is not just an engaging story. Alice Andrews makes skillful use of the latest scientific knowledge about the deep evolutionary roots of the modern mind to talk about human nature, women and men, love and sex. The skillful fusion of science with literature is no mean feat, and Andrews succeeds in bringing theoretical concepts to life by embedding them in the lived experience of her characters. I have included Trine Erotic on the reading lists for my undergraduate courses on Evolutionary Psychology."

David Livingstone Smith, PhD; Director, New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology. Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of New England, author of Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious, Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course, and Psychoanalysis in Question

New England Institute

• "Her people talk the way you wish your friends talked—-always, always analyzing, always full of fertile disagreements, seminal interpretations, high-flown, new-age, old-fashioned palaver. She knows that everything—-and love above all-—grows out of how we talk. That is what's so surprising, lively, in this novel—the combat of non-stop lucidities in which we have to make our own silence of understanding."

Robert Kelly, author of Red Action, The Garden of Distances, and Lapis

• “Trine Erotic gave me a certain insight into what one may call the Woman’s Point of View…Andrews’s arguments rang true to life.”

Arthur Danto, art critic for The Nation

The Nation

• "While writing in the voice of a contemporary young woman, Andrews casts a hard and brilliant light on some of the timeless mysteries of female discontent and desire."

Marie Winn, author of Red-tails in Love; Children Without Childhood, and The Plug-in Drug

• "We first test kindness and strength, loyalty and intelligence, health and political skill in mall flirting and later in pillowtalk and sweaty sheets...all contests that reflect the lust and blood themes of evolutionary biology, trials still encountered by a field bird or a Vassar coed. Four billion years of these contests made us what we are. Andrews's characters reflect these struggles as she sneaks under the drape between our instincts and our excuses for them. Her characters also remind us that we are not all the same even though evolution and public school might have tried to make us that way."

James Brody, PhD; founder, Clinical Sociobiology

Behavior Online

• "Alice's measured eye of erotic articulateness smiles through every scene with real womanly knowledge."

David Appelbaum, editor, Parabola Magazine

Parabola

• “With this effort, Alice Andrews opens a new genre in fiction: the reflective, biologically informed love story. Primal themes voiced in a very modern idiom. This is not biology in the old sense of simple "animal instincts" or even just the recent sense of selfish genes and the mathematics of human relationship games. It is also biology informed by our modern understanding of how we create and transmit meaning through words. The roles of the "meme" or fuzzy unit of culture, features prominently as a conceptual undercurrent here, but Andrews takes it way beyond being a unit of culture and illustrates by her own masterful example how it is also an agent of human transformation. Through her own storytelling, she seduces the reader into layer after layer of change in their own understanding, all the while explaining what she is doing. This is a relatively novel form of introspective art that both inspires and teaches. Two problems ... we aren't used to art being quite so aware of its own role, especially in scientific terms, and we usually aren't comfortable with women consciously cutting through the haze of erotic games to see their own relentless Darwinian logic. It's exciting and a bit disconcerting as well to see female sexuality both revealed and unleashed in this light. Alice Andrews could well be one of the most important voices of our times and into the future, and deserves to be very well known.

Todd I. Stark, author of Seductive Approaches and Hypnotic and Subtle Influence and moderator of Best of Human Behavior and Evolution list/Yahoo

• “Trine Erotic is a psychological exploration into the consciousness of Woman, but this is not, by any means a "woman's book." TE sheds a stark light into the dark recesses of the way the mind, heart and soul of a woman work as well as the relations between the sexes—and what she finds isn't always pretty. Her female characters speak with refreshing candor about what they want out of life and the fact that they are not afraid to want it and get it. Think Bridget Jones as hip philosopher, and minus the self-loathing. With Trine Erotic, Andrews has created true heroes.”

Brian K. Mahoney, editor, Chronogram Magazine

Chronogram

(mp3)  O'Keeffe Flower; alice andrews. recorded at funkadelic, nyc 2000.

The only song I ever recorded.