Stephanie Jones is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and Associate Director of First-Year Composition at Oklahoma State University. Her PhD is from Syracuse University in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric and Women and Gender Studies. Her dissertation, which she defended with distinction, is titled “Afrofuturist Feminism as Theory & Praxis: Rhetorical Root Working in the Black Speculative Arts Movement” She was awarded the 2021 Geneva Smitherman Award for Research in Black Language, Literacies, Cultures, and Rhetorics from NCTE/CCCC Black Caucus and the 2021 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for Writing Rhetoric and Composition Studies from Syracuse University. Her latest publication, “I Heard That: The Sociolinguist Reality of the Black Feminist Afrofuture,” examines the “sociolinguistically constructed” meaning of Afrofuturism.

Her current project, “Areas of Effect (AOEs): MMORPGs and the Act of Being In Community,” is a NYMG Special Issue in collaboration with Dr. Samantha Blackmon. Together, Jones and Blackmon started a diversity and equity platform, Black Girls of Eorzea, to highlight the need for diverse representation in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.

Her research interests include Afrofuturist Feminisms, Black Feminist Rhetorical Studies, and Digital Humanities.