Recent Faculty Publications

Forthcoming “Personhood in African Philosophy and the Possibility of Social, Psychological, and Cognitive Science” in Paul Hackett, Mirian Ngozi Alike, Husein Inusah, and Ava Gordely-Smith, eds., African Philosophical Perspectives on Qualitative Psychological and Social Science Research. Routledge.

Forthcoming “Thad Metz, Meaning as Fundamentality, and African Philosophy” in Motsamai Molefe et al eds., Thaddeus Metz.

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“Orality as Philosophical Performance” in Anke Graness, ed., Orality and Philosophy.

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Johnson, Emily, and Anastasia Salter. Critical Making in the Age of AI. Amherst College Press (In Production, April 2025).

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Salter, Anastasia. “Tame, Suggestive, and Lewd: Early Erotic Play Encoded in Leather Goddesses of Phobos.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, edited by Matthew Wysocki and Steffi Shook. Bloomsbury, forthcoming January 2025.

Johnson, Emily K. “Teaching Liberatory Design.” Communication Design Quarterly Special Issue on UX Pedagogy, vol. 12, no. 3, 2024, pp. 59-70. DOI: 10.1145/3658422.3658427.

S. H. Stephens and A. Altamirano. (2024) “Envisioning user agency during development of a natural hazard communication website.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 38(4): 345–370. DOI: 10.1177/10506519241258456

Stanfill, Mel. 2024. Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture. NYU Press.

Kies, Bridget, and Mel Stanfill. 2024. “From Algorithms to Attribution: Teaching AI and Copyright in Media Studies.” Teaching Media 9 (2). https://doi.org/10.3998/jcms.18261332.0063.802.

S. H. Stephens and D. E. DeLorme. (2024) “Incorporating lived experience narratives into interdisciplinary projects: A technique for better environmental communication.” Environmental Science and Policy. 160: 103855. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103855

Edited with Lisandra Estévez, Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World: 1200-1800, Visual Culture in Early Modernity with series editor Isabella Vitti. London, England: Routledge, 2024.

Mauer, Barry. “Drama Triangles in Nadine Gordimer’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ and the War in Gaza.” Postcolonial Interventions. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13135992. 2024

Forthcoming "Negotiating the Peace: Reconstruction and the New South," Oxford Handbook on Reconstruction, Andrew Slap, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024)

Kong, Yingzi*, and Emily K. Johnson. “Work-in-Progress—Cozy Games for Learning: Vocabulary Practice with Anim-ELLE Crossing.” 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), 2024, https://doi.org/10.56198/U6C0WIZ5O.

*student co-author

Stanfill, Mel, Anastasia Salter, and Anne Sullivan. “They Can't Play with Us: Pronoun Controversies and the Reinforcement of Heteronormativity in Games.” FDG 2024: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. July 5, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649921.3650018.

“Interviews, Dialogues, Conversations on Screen” Philosophy and Film: Genres, Convergences, Synergies. University of Bayreuth

“What If Philosophy Was Part Of This World?” Keynote, The Humanities in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.

Watson, Keri. Florida's New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2024. https://www.amazon.com/Floridas-Parks-Office-Murals-History/dp/1467156965

Antoine, Anshare and Mel Stanfill. 2024. “‘I really need Miss Rona to start tap dancing around in them lungs’: Black Twitter’s Political Humor in COVID-19 Times.” Rolling: Blackness and Mediated Comedy, edited by Alfred L. Martin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

“Transhumanism and Moral Enhancement: African Philosophy, A/Humanism, and the Question of Morality”, Transhumanism in Africa: Questioning the Concept of Radical Enhancement of Humans’ Moral Capacities Colloquium, Center for Phenomenology in South Africa and the Conversational School of Philosophy, Nigeria. 

S. H. Stephens and S. Singer, March 2024. “Incorporating lived experience research into technical and professional communication research.” Symposium on Communicating Complex Information, Norfolk, VA.

Scot A. French, "'An Imperfect Sketch' Revisited: Burkley Bullock's Life and Legacy at UVA and Beyond" in After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia," eds. Kirt von Daacke and Andrea Douglass (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024): 49-60.

"Exploring Black History, Music, & the Arts Through the Cultural Landscape of Eatonville, Florida," Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch, Inaugural Black History Month Kickoff Breakfast, Shiloh Baptist Church, Orlando, Feb. 3, 2024.

“Where is the African Future in Afrofuturism?” Keynote, Zora Neale Hurston Conference,

Moreshead, Abigail, and Anastasia Salter. “Stand With the Banned: Credibility Bias and the Fetishization of the ‘Classic’ Banned Books on Etsy”. First Monday, vol. 28, no. 12, Dec. 2023, doi:10.5210/fm.v28i12.13284.

Scot A. French, review of Atlascope Boston (v2 released Jan. 13, 2023), Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, New England Quarterly 96 (December 2023): 368-371