Kristine Larsen is Professor of Astronomy at Central Connecticut State University. The author of Stephen Hawking: A Biography and Cosmology 101 and co-editor of The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who and The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman, her research focuses on the intersections between science and society. She has published on women in the history of science, astronomical allusions in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, depictions of mad scientists and time travel in popular culture, and using zombie films to teach science.