Please explore the following links for essays and reviews published previously by Vincent L. Stephens (he/him/his), Ph.D.
I have published scholarly essays and chapters on a variety of topics related to post-world War II popular culture including music, literature, and television. These publications include the following:
Essays & Articles:
2023: Vincent L. Stephens, with Amy Davis, Shallary Duncan and Rosalie Rodriguez, “Will This Last: A sustainable model of peer mentoring.” The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching. 7 (November 2023): 65-70. The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching - CMC2023 - page Cover (mentor-cmc.com) [Article]
2023: “Mediating the world class imperative: U.S. automotive journalism, the Big Three, and the Globalized Automotive Industry of the 1980s.” Automotive History Review. 64 (Summer 2023): 76-89. https://www.academia.edu/104591600/The_Automotive_History_Review_Volume_64_Summer_2023 [Article]
2021: “Whitelash in the heartland: 1977 speaks to today through the voice of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” Over*Flow: Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture. 3 November 2021. https://www.flowjournal.org/2021/11/whitelash-in-the-heartland/. [Article]
2020: “Male Crooning Tradition,” African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs, Volume 2. Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks, Editors. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2020. 608-13. [Encyclopedia Entry]
2020: “Camping and Vamping across Borders: Locating Cabaret Singers in the Black Cultural Spectrum.” Are You Entertained? New Essays on Black Culture in the 21st Century. Eds. Simone C. Drake, and Dwan K. Henderson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 58-76. [Book chapter]
2019: Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music. Urbana Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. [Monograph]
Rocking the Closet was favorably reviewed in The Advocate; The Arts Fuse; Cultural History; The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; Journal of the History of Sexuality; Music Library Association; On the Seawall, Popular Music & Society, and Western Folkore.
2019: “Valuing the Whole Student: Adapting Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy to Peer Mentoring.” The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching 2.1 (October 2019): 108-11. [Article]
2019: “Impact by Intention: An Argument for Forensics as a High Impact Practice.” National Forensic Journal 36.1 (Fall 2019): 24-41. [Article]
2017: Vincent L. Stephens, and Anthony Stewart, eds. Post Racial America? An Interdisciplinary Study. Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield. [Edited collection]
2017: “Introduction” (co-written with Anthony Stewart). Post Racial America? An Interdisciplinary Study. Eds. Vincent Stephens and Anthony Stewart. Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 1-18. [Book chapter]
2017: “Appreciative Advising for Peer Mentors: A Training Module for Peer Mentor Programs,” The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching 1.8 (December 2017): 1492-96. [Article]
2015: “Open Secrecy: Self-Presentation by Queer Male Musicians.” Masquerade: Essays on Tradition and Innovation Worldwide. Ed. Deborah Bell. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2015. 145-55. [Book chapter]
2013: “Odd Family Out: Closely Reading Kate & Allie’s ‘New Women’ Household,” The Journal of Popular Culture 46.4 (2013): 886-908. [Article]
2012: “Soft Rock.” Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume VIII. Ed. David Horn. New York: Continuum, 2012. 436-39. [Encyclopedia entry]
2011: “What Child Is This? Closely Reading Collectivity and Queer Childrearing in Lackawanna Blues and Noah’s Arc,” African-American Review 44.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 235-53. [Article]
2010: “Shaking the Closet: Analyzing Johnny Mathis’s Sexual Elusiveness, 1956-1982,” Popular Music and Society 33.5 (December 2010): 597-623. [Article]
2008: “Crooning on the Fault Lines: Theorizing Jazz and Pop Vocal Singing Discourse in the Rock Era, 1955-1978,” American Music 26.2 (Summer 2008): 156-95. [Article]
2007: “American Infants: Coping with Trauma and Becoming Historical in A Home at the End of the World and American Pastoral.” Culture and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War. Ed. Nico Carpentier. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 183-208. [Book chapter]
2005: “Pop Goes the Rapper: A Close Reading of Eminem’s Genderphobia,” Popular Music 24.1 (January 2005): 21-36. [Article] Reprinted in Common Culture: Reading and Writing About Popular Culture. 5th ed. Eds. Michael Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2006. 261-83. [Book chapter]
Encyclopedia Entries:
“Male Crooning Tradition,” African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs, Volume 2. Omari L. Dyson, Judson L. Jeffries, and Kevin L. Brooks, Editors. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2020. 608-13
“Soft Rock.” Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume VIII. Ed. David Horn. New York: Continuum, 2012. 436-39
Books:
Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study, (Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Vincent L. Stephens and Anthony Stewart, co-editors.
The link (copy & paste): https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611487794/Post-Racial-America?-An-Interdisciplinary-Study
Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music (University of Illinois Press, 2019).
For more information please go to the following link: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/77nmx6sb9780252042805.html
Vincent's writing for All About Jazz Online (2004-06):
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/contributor_articles.php?id=1812
Links to anthologies and books featuring essays written by Vincent:
Common Culture: Reading and Writing About Popular Culture. 5th ed.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/65-9780132202671-2
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume VIII. (David Horn, editor, 2012)
Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War. 2nd ed. (Nico Carpentier, editor, 2015)
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/culture-trauma-and-conflict-21
Masquerade: Essays on Tradition and Innovation Worldwide (Deborah Bell, editor, 2014)
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7646-6
Are Your Entertained? Black Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century (Simone C. Drake and Dwan K. Henderson, editors, 2020)
https://www.dukeupress.edu/are-you-entertained