Publications

Books

• Shelley M. Park, Mothering queerly, queering motherhood: Resisting monomaternalism in adoptive, lesbian, blended and polygamous families (New York: SUNY Press) 2013.

Edited Collections

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  Ranjoo S. Herr and Shelley M. Park, eds., Contested Terrains: Women of Color, Third World Women, Feminisms and Geopolitics.  Special Issue of Hypatia Vol 32: 3 (Summer 2017).

Articles/Essays

• Forthcoming Shelley Park, "E-Carity: The Entanglement of Care and Precarity under Technocapitalism."  Azimuth. Special issue on Critical Care. 
• Shelley M. Park, "Uncomfortably Close to Human: Robots and the Neocolonial Politics of Care, Feminist Philosophical Quarterly 8: 3/4 (2022)
• Shelley Park, "Normativity and Belonging: Reflections about Critical Adoption Studies," Adoption & Culture 9.2 (2021) 300-307.

• Shelley Park, "More than Skin Deep: A Response to 'The Whiteness of AI'" Philosophy and Technology 34 (2021): 1961-1966.

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  Shelley M. Park, “Unsettling Feminist Philosophy: An Encounter with Tracey Moffat’s Night Cries.” Hypatia 35:1 (Winter 2020) 97-122.
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  Shelley M. Park and Ranjoo S. Herr, Introduction: Contested Terrains, Hypatia 32:3 (Summer 2017) 1-11.
• Shelley M. Park, "Taking Political Taste (and Distaste) Seriously." Kennedy Institute for Ethics Journal 27:2 (2017).
• Shelley M. Park, Polyamory is to Polygamy as Queer is to Barbaric. Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 20.2 (May 2017) 297-328.
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  Shelley M. Park, 'When we handed out the crayolas, they just stared at them:' Deploying metronormativity in the war against FLDS mothers, Philosophy in the contemporary world. Vol 23:1 (Spring 2017) 71-90.
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  Shelley M. Park, A virtual pulse: Cautionary notes about public mourning in a digital age. APA Newsletter on LGBTQ issues in philosophy Vol 16:1 (Fall 2016) 3-6.
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  Shelley M. Park, Classic media review of Hedwig and the angry inch by John Michael Cameron, dir., Queer studies in media and popular culture Vol 1:1 (2015) 125-128.
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  Shelley M. Park, The feminist killjoy in the room: The costs of caring about diversity.  Florida philosophical review Vol. 13 (Winter 2014) 36-47.
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  Shelley M. Park, Comment on Nancy Nicol's Politics of the heart: Recognition of homoparental families.  Florida philosophical review, Vol 8:1 (2008) 157-163. 
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  Shelley M. Park, Nomadic musings: Living and thinking queerly.  APA newsletter on feminism and philosophy, Vol. 7:1 (2007) 17-20. 

Book Sections/Chapters

• Forthcoming Margaret A. McLaren, Shelley M. Park, and Eric Smaw, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen": The Orwellian State of Higher Education in Florida." In Brandon Absher, ed. Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education.  Lexington Press.
• Shelley M. Park, Excerpt from Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood.  In Emily Hitchen, ed., The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader, Chapter 12. (NY: Routledge, 2024), 100-105. 

• Shelley M. Park, “Queer Possibilities: Unnatural Mothers and Other Aberrations.” Maternal Theory: Essential Readings. 2nd ed., ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Demeter Press, 2021.

• Shelley M. Park and Dakota Park-Ozee, "Gendered Divisions of Labor in the 21st Century Academy: Research, Teaching and Service," The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education, eds. Nancy Niemi and Marcus Weaver-Hightower (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) 375-395.

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  Shelley M. Park, "Queering and Querying Mothering," Routledge Motherhood Companion, eds. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, Andrea O'Reilly, and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles (NY: Routledge, 2019) 63-76
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  Shelley M. Park, Cyborg mothering.  In Jocelyn Stitt and Pegeen Powell, eds. Mothers who deliver: Feminist interventions in interpersonal and public discourse (New York: SUNY Press, 2010) 57-75.
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  Shelley M. Park, Is queer parenting possible? In Rachel Epstein, ed.  Who's your daddy? And other writings on queer parenting (Toronto: Sumach Press, 2009) 316-327.

Podcasts/Digital Media Projects

• Forthcoming Shelley Park, "Women who Care Too Much: From Helicopter Moms to Helicopter Teachers,"  IAMAS (International Association of Maternal Action + Scholarship) blog. 
• Shelley Park, "Automated Healthcare," Care Talk, April 22, 2024.

• Shelley Park, Thinking Queerly-Mothers, Adoption, and Cultural Straightjackets, How To Ruin Dinner (podcast), Episode 40. 2022.

• Shelley Park, Activism and Mourning in the Digital Age, Philosophy Phorum (podcast), Episode 11, 2021.

• Shelley M. Park, "Helicopter Parents: Posthuman Tropes of Bad Mothering," In Media Res.  Online curation as part of "Motherhood and Media"  May 9, 2019
• Shelley M. Park and Mumtaz Hammad, "Okaeri: Living with your favorite character,"  In Media Res.  Online curation as part of "Issues in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality."  April 1, 2019

Translation

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  Shelley M. Park, Trans. Dolores Curia, “¿Madre verdadera o mala madre?” Pagina12, Oct 19, 2018.  Online.

Book Reviews

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  Shelley M. Park, Review of Affirmation, Care Ethics, and LGBT Identity by Tim Johnson, Hypatia Reviews Online (April 2018).
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  Shelley M. Park, Review of Against Marriage: A Defence of the Marriage-Free State by Clare Chambers,  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2018) 
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  Shelley M. Park, Review of Blended: Writers on the stepfamily experience by Samantha Waltz, ed., Journal of Motherhood Initiative, Vol. 7:1 (2016).  
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  Shelley M. Park, Review of Confronting postmaternal thinking: Feminism, memory and care by Julie Stephens.  APA newsletter on feminism and philosophy, Vol. 13:1 (Fall 2013) 21-24.
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  Shelley M. Park, Review of Philosophical inquiries into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering: Maternal subjects by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander Staudt, eds., Notre Dame philosophical reviews (May 2012)
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  Shelley M. Park, Review of Queering freedom by Shannon Winnubst. APA Newsletter on feminism and philosophy Vol 7:2 (2008) 18-19.

Conference Papers/Presentations

• Shelley M. Park, "Remembering a Way Into the Future: Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer." Cultural Studies Association. Fairfax, VA. May 2023.
• Shelley Park, "Let Students Learn": Pivoting from Faculty Rights to the Collective Responsibilities of Educators. Radical Philosophy Association. Jacksonville, FL. Nov 2022.
• Shelley M. Park, "From Care-o-Bot to HUMANS: (Psycho)analyzing the Uncanny Valley Problem." IaPH: International association of women philosophers (Zoom host: University of Paderborn, Germany) July 2021
• Shelley M. Park, "Theorizing e-carity: Where care, technology, and precarity meet." Care ethics research consortium (Zoom hosts: University of Ottawa, Carleton University, University of Humanistic Studies, Netherlands) May 2021.
• Shelley M. Park, “Helicopter Moms: Domesticating our Fear of the Surveillance State,” Florida Philosophical Association, Gainesville, FL, Nov 2019.
• Shelley M. Park, “Glass Ceilings, Ivory Basements, and Gendered Divisions of Labor in the Academy,” Florida Philosophical Association, Pensacola, FL, November 2018
• Shelley M. Park, "Technologies of Care, Technologies of Precarity," Care Ethics Research Consortium, Portland, OR, Sept 2018
• Shelley M. Park, “Re-Thinking the Uncanny Valley from a Feminist, Decolonial Perspective,” Florida Philosophical Association, Ocala, FL, November 2017.  
• Shelley M. Park, Unsettling Feminist Philosophy: An Encounter with Tracey Moffat's Night Cries, Feminist Ethics and Social Theory conference.  Clearwater, FL, October 2017.

• Shelley M. Park, Helicopter Moms and Smart Homes: Fears of the (M)other in the Surveillance State. PhiloSOPHIA, Boca Raton, FL. April 2017. 

• Shelley M. Park, Polyamory is to Polygamy as Queer is to Barbaric? Queer Kinship and Relationship Conference.  Zalesie Mazury, Poland. June 2015.

• Shelley M. Park, When Feminism and Queerness Collide: The Case of Jian Ghomeshi. Popular Culture Association.  New Orleans, LA.  April 2015.

• Shelley M. Park, Cyborg Mothering:  The Ethics of Care in a Technological Era. Florida Philosophical Association.  Tampa, FL.  November 2014.

• Shelley M. Park, The Diversity Problem in Philosophy. Florida Philosophical Association. Deland, FL. November 2013.

• Shelley M. Park, One and Only One Mother?  Resisting Monomaternalism.  Florida Philosophical Association.  November 2012.

• Shelley M. Park, Where are All the Cyborg Mothers?  Reflections on the Posthuman Maternal Body.  Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy.  Calgary, AB, October 2012.

• Shelley M. Park, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: An Exploration of Polymaternal Families.  Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division.  Washington, D.C. December 2011.

• Monomaternalism and the Politics of Mothering in Adoptive, Queer, and Blended Families. Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory.  Illinois.  September 2011.

• Shelley M. Park, Queer Family Values in Showtime’s The United States of Tara. Popular Culture Association. San Antonio, TX. March 2010. 

• Shelley M. Park, Queer Family Values in HBO’s Big Love. Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, LA. March 2009.

• Shelley M. Park, (Inter)Disciplinary Homes, Queer Orientations. Breaking Boundaries, Forging Connections conference.  Halifax, NS.  April 2008.

Invited Lectures/Presentations

• Respondent, Is Technology a Vehicle of Care or Control? Revaluing Care in the Global Economy Working Papers series. Featuring work by Mercer Gary and Fulden Arisan. Duke University Revaluing Care Lab (via zoom). Oct 18, 2024.
• Shelley Park, "Polymaternalism: Transforming and Preserving Familial Landscapes." Keynote address. Feminism and Motherhood Winter School.  University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium, February 2024.
• Shelley Park, "'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen': Newspeak, doublespeak and other Orwellian adventures in the 21st century academy." Department of Philosophy, Stetson University. November 3, 2023.
• Shelley Park and Jen Sandoval, "Fighting Florida's 'Stop W.O.K.E.' Act: Protecting Free Speech and Social Justice in Higher Education," Illinois State University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. October 2023.
• Shelley Park and Jennifer Sandoval, "Pushing Back against Government Censorship."  Old Dominion University AAUP. October 2022
• Panelist, “Queer Kinship and Care,” Revaluing Care in the Global Economy. Duke University.
• Keynote. “From Helicopter Moms to Smart(er) Homes:  Technological Fantasies of Care and Control,” Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.  Edwardsville, Illinois, October 2019
• Keynote. "When Feminism and Queerness Collide: Reflections on the #metoo Movement," University of Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.  Gainesville, FL, April 2018.

• Keynote. "Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood," University of South Carolina—Upstate, Bodies of Knowledge Symposium. March 2016.  

• Lecture. "FLDS Mothers as Subaltern Subjects." University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, Calgary, Alberta. January 2016. 

• Plenary. "Good” (Queer) Mothers and “Bad” (Queer) Mothers:  Contested Representations of Polygamist Women in Popular Culture.  Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. Toronto, ON, June 2013.  Also presented to the Cultural Studies Association. Chicago, IL, May 2013.

• Keynote. "Nomadic Musings." Queer Week.  New College.  Sarasota, FL, 2009.

Miscellaneous Publications

• Fifile Nguyen, Clara Fischer and Shelley Park, "A Conversation with Clara Fischer and Shelley Park, Professors of Philosophy and Guest Editors of Hypatia Special Issues," Wiley Humanities Festival blog, August 2017
• Haslanger, Sally, Frances Latchford, Mianna Lotz, Shelley Park, Tina Rulli, and Charlotte Witt, “Adoption in Philosophy,” Adoption and Culture 4:1 (2014), 127-132. (Bibliography)

Awards

• UCF Research Sabbatical (competitive), 2023-24
• UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2022
• UCF Scroll and Quill Society Inductee, 2019
• UCF Women Faculty Life@UCF Award nominee for transforming student lives, 2019
• UCF Research Incentive Award, 2018
• UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2017
• UCF Research Sabbatical (competitive), 2017
• UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2012
• UCF Research Sabbatical (competitive), 2010
• UCF Women’s Research Center Award, 2009
• UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award, 2007

Courses

• Fall 2025