Alexandra Stamson

Alexandra Stamson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. She holds an M.A. in Philosophy from UConn, an M.A. in Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, a B.A. in Philosophy from Purchase College, and a B.A. in Media and Communication from USM. She has also taught as an adjunct professor of Philosophy at Purchase College since 2021. Alex has interests in social epistemology, feminist and queer theory, and media theory. Her central philosophical pursuits look at the ways that certain epistemic environments can impact the way that agents develop their self-identities, and the way that political, technological, and social pressures can harm agents in the capacity to understand themselves. Along with her philosophical pursuits, Alex uses her background in media theory and feminist philosophy to work on the analysis of gender and sexuality representation in popular fiction. Her past academic aims have been to bring feminist philosophy and media/literary theory together in a way that critiques the impact that fictional narratives have on our social and cultural experience. More information on Alex’s work can be found at alexandrastamson.com.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Reading Between Worlds: Gendered Narratives in Fiction” in Critical Gender Studies Journal (2024)

“Crafting Representation: Deploying Racecrafting Techniques to Critique Gender- and Sexuality-Swapping in HBO’s Lovecraft Country” in Studies in the Fantastic (2022)

“Narcissist Fathers and Powered Daughters: Examining Narcissism and Gender in N. K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate” in Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance (2022)

“Generative Disruption and Queer Sharing: Accessibility and Community in Graduate Learning during COVID-19” in Queer Sharing in the Marketized University (2022)