Publications

Ashley Shew’s publications*

(*List does not include papers under review. I am currently seeking a publisher for a book project on Technoableism, drafting during sabbatical Spring 2021.)

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Forthcoming: Shew, Ashley. 2021. “The Minded Body in Technology and Disability,” in Shannon Vallor (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Technology. Oxford.
Shew, Ashley. 2017. “Animals in Philosophy of Technology,” in Joseph C. Pitt and Ashley Shew (eds.), Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology. Routledge. [Shew Animals in Phil of Tech PDF]
Shew, Ashley. 2008. “Nanotechnology’s Future: Considerations for the Professional,” in Fritz Allhoff and Patrick Lin (eds.), Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues, pages 127-146. Springer. [Nanotechs Future Considerations PDF]
Baird, Davis, and Ashley Shew. 2004. “Probing the History of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy,” in Davis Baird, Alfred Nordmann, and Joachim Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale, pages 145-156. Amsterdam: IOS Press. [Baird Shew Probing History STM PDF]

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

[These are all associated with an NSF grant where I am a co-PI, Exploring Civil Engineering Identity and Disability, NSF Grant #1733636]

Groen-McCall, C., McNair, L. D. , Paretti, M. C., Shew, A., and Simmons, D. R. 2019. “Exploring Professional Identity Formation in Undergraduate Civil Engineering Students Who Experience Disabilities: Establishing Definitions of Self,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference.
Groen-McCall, C., McNair, L. D., Paretti, M. C., Shew, A., & Simmons, D. R. 2018. Experiencing disability: A preliminary analysis of professional identity development in U.S. undergraduate civil engineering students. Proceedings of the Australasian Engineering Education Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Groen, C., McNair, L.D., Paretti, M.C., Simmons, D.R., and Shew, A. 2018. “Exploring Professional Identity Development in Undergraduate Civil Engineering Students Who Experience Disabilities.” Proceedings of the 2018 American Society for Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Salt Lake City, UT: ASEE.
Groen, C., Paretti, M. C., McNair, L. D., Simmons, D. R., & Shew, A. 2018. “Experiencing disability in undergraduate civil engineering education: An initial examination of the intersection of disability and professional identities.” In Proceedings of the 2018 Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) Annual Conference, Crystal City, VA.

Scholarly Essays and Commentaries

Svyantek, Martina, Scott Dexter, and Ashley Shew. 2020, Dec 1. “Now What? Adding Accessibility Mid-Stream.” Academe Magazine (American Academy of University Professors Publication). https://www.aaup.org/article/now-what-adding-accessibility-midstream
Shew, Ashley. 2020, Oct 7. “An Interview with Jai Virdi, Author of Hearing Happiness.” Nursing Clio [History of Medicine Blog]. https://nursingclio.org/2020/10/07/ear-trumpets-and-archives-an-interview-with-jaipreet-virdi-about-hearing-happiness/
Shew, Ashley. 2020, Sept 9. “Passed, but not Enacted: The Law Is Not the Power.” All of Us [Blog of the Disability History Association]. http://allofusdha.org/ada-turns-30/passed-but-not-enacted-the-law-is-not-the-power/
Shew, Ashley. “Let Covid19 Expand Awareness of Disability Tech.” Nature 581 (May 5, 2020), page 9. URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01312-w
Shew, Ashley. 2019. “Stop Depicting Technology As Redeeming Disabled People.” Nursing Clio, April 23.
Shew, Ashley. 2018. “Different Ways of Moving Through the World.” Logic Magazine, Issue 5: Failure. URL: https://logicmag.io/05-failure/
[Shew Different Ways of Moving Through the World 2018]
Shew, Ashley. 2017. “The Long Way Around,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 17. URL: https://www.chronicle.com/article/It-Shouldn-t-Be-This-Hard-to/241166
Shew, Ashley. 2017. “Finding My Amputee Brethren.” Nursing Clio, July 28. URL: https://nursingclio.org/2017/07/27/finding-my-amputee-brethren/
Shew, Ashley. 2013. “To the Cloud! Loss in the Age of Digital Memory,” The New Everyday, October. URL: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/tne/pieces/cloud-loss-age-digital-memory
Shew, Ashley. 2010. “Preface to the Anniversary Special Issue,” issue honoring the 15th Anniversary of Techné. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Volume 14 (1), pages 1-2.

Book Chapters, Popular Press

Shew, Ashley. “Every Breath You Take,” in D.E. Wittkower and Lucinda Rush (eds.). Ender’s Game and Philosophy, pages 134-142. Open Court, 2013. [Ender PDF]

Book Reviews

Shew, Ashley. Book Review of George Estreich’s Fables and Futures (2019). Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020.
Shew, Ashley. “The Field of Field Philosophy.” Invited Book Review for Review Symposium: Socrates Tenured by Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 48(1): 56-62, 2018.
Shew, Ashley. Book Review of 5 Questions: Philosophy of Science, edited by Robert Rosenberger (published 2010). Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Volume 15(3), pages 243-244, 2011.

Narrative Essays and Op-Eds

Shew, Ashley. 2018. “Water of Life.” Medium, November 26. URL: https://medium.com/@ashleyshew/water-of-life-aef9569c62e5
Shew, Ashley. 2018. “This is What a Typical Day Waiting For Scan Results Feels Like.” I Had Cancer Network Blog, March 19. URL: https://www.ihadcancer.com/h3-blog/03-19-2018/this-is-what-a-typical-day-waiting-for-scan-results-feels-like
Shew, Ashley. 2017. “Just Your Average Hard-of-Hearing, Chemobrained Amputee.” I Had Cancer Network Blog, July 19. URL: https://www.ihadcancer.com/h3-blog/07-19-2017/just-your-average-hard-of-hearing-chemobrained-amputee
Shew, Ashley. 2017. “Inventing the Future – for all of us.” Opinion/Letter to the Editor. Collegiate Times, May 1. URL: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/opinion/lte-inventing-the-future-for-all-of-us/article_c2fcddc2-2ece-11e7-9467-fb1f5ea5c108.html
Shew, Ashley. “Having an Amputation Can Be Okay.” The Mighty. February 8. URL: https://themighty.com/2017/02/having-an-amputation-can-be-ok/

Coverage

Book Reviews of Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge (2017)

Podcasts and Radio

Anderson, Amanda. 2020. Meeting Street Podcast [Brown University], Episode 1: Disability Studies and the Pandemic, October 2, 2020.
Wong, Alice. 2019. Disability Visibility Project, Episode 66: Cyborgs. December 18, 2019. https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2019/12/18/ep-66-cyborgs/
Interview with Silicon Republic. January 16, 2019. URL: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ashley-shew-disability-research-virginia-tech
“Dr. Doolittle.” Podcast: Flash Forward with Rose Eveleth. (Interviewed about Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge.) August 14, 2018. URL: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2018/08/14/dr-doolittle/
“Enter the Exos.” Podcast: Flash Forward with Rose Eveleth. (Interviewed + a former student interviewed.) May 8, 2018. URL: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2018/05/08/enter-the-exos/
Future Perfect: How Technology Will Shape Humanity and Vice Versa. WVTF/RadioIQ, December 15, 2017. URL: http://wvtf.org/post/future-perfect-how-will-technology-shape-humanity-and-vice-versa
WIRED’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, episode 106. Interviewed about the publication of Ender’s Game and Philosophy, March 20, 2014. URL: https://geeksguideshow.com/2014/03/20/ggg106-karl-schroeder/

News Interviews

Pointer, Eric. “VT Assistant Professor Works to Include Disabled People In Products Meant for Them.” WFXR (local tv news). October 24, 2019. URL: https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/vt-assistant-professor-works-to-include-disabled-people-in-products-meant-for-them/
“Tech Project to Boost Accessibility at April 16 memorial, around campus,” Roanoke Times, May 4, 2019.
“NSF Award To Enable Research Into Technologies For Disability Community,” Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences News (also featured in VT News with this story), July 27, 2018. URL: https://www.news.liberalarts.vt.edu/2018/07/27/nsf-award-to-enable-research-into-technologies-for-disability-community/
“Department of Science, Technology, and Society to celebrate its inaugural research day.” (Two students from STS 3284 interviewed.) April 25, 2018. URL: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2018/04/clahs-sts-research-day-2018.html
‘Sit Out’ at Virginia Tech Raises Awareness to challenges for disabled. Roanoke Times (front page), May 4, 2017. URL: http://www.roanoke.com/print_only/tab_master/sit-out-at-virginia-tech-raises-awareness-to-challenges-for/article_2eec3d0b-5596-5087-9c53-6890086299d2.html
‘Sit out’ hosted for equal access on campus. Collegiate Times, May 4 ,2017. URL: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/sit-out-hosted-for-equal-access-on-campus/article_7a2249d4-30ef-11e7-a808-730278195cb4.html
Protesters at Virginia Tech ‘Sit Out’ against stairs without ADA ramps. 11 O’Clock News. WDBJ7 (TV Station), May 3, 2017. http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Protesters-at-Virginia-Tech-Sit-Out-against-stairs-without-ADA-ramps-421250324.html

Stuff About Disabled People in Space – the real reason you are here, surely

Interviewed: Bartels, Meghan. “Space Tourism is About to Push Civilian Medicine to the Final Frontier.” Space.com. May 29,2019. URL: https://www.space.com/space-tourism-flights-health-risks.html
Becoming Interplanetary Event, Recording of Panels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2q2tlojDB4&feature=youtu.be
Interviewed: Eveleth, Rose. “It’s Time to Rethink Who’s Best Suited for Space Travel.” Wired, January 27, 2019.
T&D Blog Post: Disabled People In Space – Becoming Interplanetary