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.

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

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. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103855

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)

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. Frrench, 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

“Spaces of Thought: A Response to Critiques”, in Philosophia Africana 22:1 (2023): 43-60.

Forthcoming Listengarten, Julia and Keri Watson. Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations in Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Performing-Collaborations-Higher-Education/dp/3031298101

“The Limits of Individualism and the Potential for Friendliness in Thad Metz’s A Relational Moral Theory” in The African Philosophical Inquiry. Fall 2023. http://africanphilosophicalinquiry.com/

Murray, John, Jack Murray, and Anastasia Salter. “Playing with AI Chat: Positioning ‘Dangerous’ Language Model Futures through Interactive Fiction.” SIGDOC '23: Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. October 26, 2023. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3615335.3623015.

“Review of Charlie Hailey, The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature,” Environment, Space, Place 15:1 (2023): 142-147. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/903431

Johnson, E.K. (2023). “It’s all the same words, but It’s not”: ChatGPT as TPC Assistant. Presented at 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’23) October 26, 2023.

Johnson, E.K. (2023). Supporting Self-Regulated Learning in a User-Centered Design Course. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615335.3623043

Johnson, E.K. and Vitanova, G. (2023). “You have to play your homework!”: An analysis of student reflections on an educational computer game” Presented at 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’23) October 26, 2023.

Conversation with Tendayi Sithole, Annual Conference of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence: Spatialities, Bayreuth, Germany