Professor of Media Studies
Office: Music Education 220
Visual and Performing Arts
College of Arts & Sciences
sspence@clayton.edu
Phone: (678) 466-4721
Ph D, English and Media Studies, University of Florida, 1999
Steven A Spence, Adaptation, Violence, and Storytelling in The Last of Us, Games and Culture – March 31 2024
Steven A Spence, Facial Animation and Empathy in The Last of Us Parts I and II, Persona Studies – 2024
Steven A Spence, Cultural Globalization and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, Public Culture – Fall 2011
Steven A Spence, Hip Hop Aesthetics and La Haine, Liquid Blackness – Fall 2017
Steven A Spence, History with a Soundtrack: YouTube, Vernacular History, and Tupac Shakur, Robert W. Woodruff Library Atlanta University Center – August 2013
Steven A Spence, Montepulciano!, University System of Georgia European Council – Spring 2006 to Fall 2007
Steven A Spence, Westerns, Wastelands, and The Last of Us, Annual Convention, Society for Cinema and Media Studies – March 14 2024
Steven A Spence, Westerns, Frontier Justice, and The Last of Us, Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture, Instituto Franklin UAH – November 27 2023
Steven A Spence, Cultivating an Appetite for Violence in The Last of Us Part II, Annual Convention, Popular Culture Association – April 7 2023
Steven A Spence, “‘Eyes on the Prize’ and the Music of Black Power”, Annual Convention, Society for Cinema and Media Studies – May 2 2016
Steven A Spence, Emotional Expression in Contemporary Videogames, Annual Convention, Georgia Communications Association – February 16 2024
, Presidential Search and Advisory Committee, Committee Member – 2000 to 2000
University, Information Technology Council, Committee Chair – Fall 2018 to Present
University, Information Technology Council, Other – June 2013 to August 2013
College, Promotion and Tenure, Chairperson – Fall 2019 to Spring 2020
College, Promotion and Tenure, Committee Chair – August 2014 to July 2015
Department, Promotion and Tenure, Committee Member – August 2014 to Spring 2016
Department, CMS Program Committee, Committee Member – November 2009 to Present
Conference-Related, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Fall 2014 to Summer 2018
Committee Chair, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Fall 2018 to Summer 2018
Session Chair, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Spring 2017
Session Chair, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Spring 2017
Member, Independent Media Artists of Georgia 2005 to 2010
Officer, Other Officer, South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2006 to 2006
Other, Friends School of Atlanta, Local – January 2016 to April 2016
Other, Friends School of Atlanta, International – January 26 2013