Selected Writing

Guest Editor

Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 38.1 (April 2016). Special Issue: “Revaluing the Human: The Moral Economy of Human Rights.” With Wendy S. Hesford and K. M. Ferebee.

Articles and Chapters

“Psychology, Torture, Networks: Or, Structure as the Subject of Human Rights.” In Writing Beyond the

State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literature and Culture Eds. Alexandra S.

Moore and Samantha Pinto (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) 175-198.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-34456-6_9

“The Poisoning of Flint and the Moral Economy of Human Rights.” Introduction with K.M. Ferebee and

Wendy S. Hesford. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 38.1 (April 2016). Special Issue:

“Revaluing the Human: The Moral Economy of Human Rights.” 1-11.

Possible pay wall? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01440357.2016.1165366

Also w/o pay wall

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299519448_The_poisoning_of_Flint_and_the_moral_e

conomy_of_human_rights

“Torture Politics.” Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review. Review of Talking about

Torture: How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate by Jared Del Rosso. [New York: Columbia

University Press, 2015]. 2016.

“Dark Chamber, Colonial Scene: Post-9/11 Torture and Representation.” In Theoretical Perspectives on

Human Rights and Literature. Eds. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis. 180-

197. New York: Routledge, 2012.

“The Torture Device: Debate and Archetype.” In Torture: Power, Democracy and the Human Body. Eds.

Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua. 129-157. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

“The Torturer’s Tale: Tony Lagouranis in Mosul and the Media.” In Iraq War Cultures. Eds. Cynthia

Fuchs and Joe Lockard. 160-177. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

Reprint. “The Terrorist We Torture: The Tale of Abdul Hakim Murad.” On Torture. Ed. Tom Hilde. 87-

104. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

“Rethinking Torture’s Dark Chamber.” Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice 20.1 (2008): 13-21.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249004591_Rethinking_Torture%27s_Dark_Chamber

“CEDAW, Migrant Women in Domestic Service and the Home as Global Workplace.” Migration et

Diversité Culturelle. Ed. Moha Ennaji. Fes, Maroc: FES-SAISS, 2008.

"Race in Feminism: Critiques of Bodily Self-Determination in Ida B. Wells and Anna

Julia Cooper," Trotter Review 17.1 (2007): Article 7.

https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol17/iss1/7/

“Torture: Alibi and Archetype in US News and Law Since 2001.” Culture, Trauma and Conflict: Cultural

Studies Perspectives on War. Ed. Nico Carpentier. 135-160. Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

2007.

“The Terrorist We Torture: The Tale of Abdul Hakim Murad.” South Central Review 24.1 (Spring 2007):

73-90.

“Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances

Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells.” Genders 31 (Spring 2000).

https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/2000/06/01/eugenic-feminisms-late-

nineteenth-century-america-reading-race-victoria-woodhull-frances

OR https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/archive/author/athey

“Poisonous Roots and the New World Blues: Rereading Seventies Nation and Narration in Alex Haley

and Gayl Jones.” Narrative 7.2 (May 1999): 169-193.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107180

“Reproductive Health, Race and Technology: Political Fictions and Black Feminist Critiques, 1970s-

1990s.” SAGE: Race Relations 22.1 (February 1997): 5-29.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephanie-Athey-

2/publication/366837682_Reproductive_Health_Race_and_Technology_Black_Feminist_Critiqu

es_1970s-1990s/links/63b45e64c3c99660ebc70751/Reproductive-Health-Race-and-

Technology-Black-Feminist-Critiques-1970s-

1990s.pdf?_sg%5B0%5D=started_experiment_milestone&origin=journalDetail&_rtd=e3

0%3D

“Building on a Radical Foundation: Theologian Howard Thurman’s Work Continues.” Trotter Review

(Spring 1997): 31-34.

https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1331&context=trotter_review

Reprint. “Oroonoko’s Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourse Studies in

the Americas.” Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from “Oroonoko” to Anita Hill.

Eds. Cathy N. Davidson and Michael Moon. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1995.

“Oroonoko’s Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourse Studies in the

Americas.” With Daniel Cooper Alarcón. American Literature 65.3 (September 1993): 415-443.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2927388