Alexandra Stamson ’19

Alexandra (Alex) Stamson ’19 is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.

Alex  also holds an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from the Graduate Center CUNY,  and a BA in Media and Communication from the University of Southern Maine.

Stamson is currently serving as a Lecturer of Philosophy here at Purchase.

Alex works as a part of many feminist spaces including as an office assistant for the National Women’s Studies Association, and as a part of the editorial team for Women’s Studies Quarterly and Feminist Anthropology.

Alex is also a co-chair for the Pop Culture Interest group at the NWSA, an inaugural member of the Feminist Press’ Young Feminist Leadership Council, and she runs the annual 16 Stories campaign that features feminist activism.

Alex has a background in media theory and feminist philosophy and works on the analysis of gender and sexuality representation in popular fiction. Her academic aims are 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.