Research Interests

• Disability Studies
• Rhetoric of Eugenics
• Rhetoric of Pop Culture, particularly Lady Gaga

Recent Research Activities

Wheeler, Stephanie K. “Engaging Mêtis as a Site of Disability Activist and Leadership Possibilities.” Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing and Service Learning. 23.2: (2024): 40-74.  

Wheeler, Stephanie K. “Communities of Access: A Program Profile of the University of Central Florida’s Faculty Liaison Program in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric.” Composition Forum, 39 (2018).

Wheeler, Stephanie K. “(Un)Mapping the City Beautiful: Orlando Florida’s ‘Ugly’ Settler Colonial Legacy.” In On the Politics of Ugliness. Eds. Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2018. 127-150.

Wheeler, Stephanie K. “Harry Potter and the First Order of Business: Using Simulation to Teach Social Justice and Disability Ethics in Business Communication.” Business and Professional Communication Quarterly. 81.1 (2018): 85-99.

Wheeler, Stephanie K. “‘An Open Mesh of Possibilities’”: Engaging Disability Studies as a Site of Activist and Leadership Possibilities.” Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing and Service Learning. 17.3 (2018): 87-110. 

Wheeler, Stephanie K. “The Construction of Access: The Eugenic Precedent of the Americans with Disabilities Act.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 31.3 (2017): 377-387. 

Jones, Natasha N. and Stephanie K. Wheeler. “Document Design and Social Justice: A Universal Design for Documents.” In Writing about Writing, 3rd ed. edited by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016.