Stephanie Tripp
Scholar, Writer, Media Maker.
About Me
I’m a digital media theorist and maker who teaches at the University of Tampa. My work explores place and community identity, technologies of inscription, cultural memory practices, and Derridean hauntology. I live in Tampa with my husband, Thomas Cohen, and our cats, Hermes and Bruno. Before returning to my native Florida in 2009, we lived for six years in Memphis and for two years in Peru, a small farming community in upstate New York.
Projects
My media work extends from early hypertext projects during my graduate studies at the University of Florida, to interactive multimedia work, to immersive video and virtual reality. Here are examples of more recent work.
Virtual Nekuomanteia (2024)
An experimental essay on the long history of media in the age of virtual reality. Created in the Unreal game engine and optimized for viewing in a VR headset. Learn more.
My Tiny World (2022 – )
This series of short 360-degree videos reimagines the confined spaces of a backyard garden through fantastical encounters with household objects. (Work in progress)
Home, Unstaged (2021-22)
A 360-degree immersive video that explores the multi-layered processes of grief and commemoration experienced while emptying and vacating one’s childhood home.
Tampa Tarot (2012, 2016 – )
A multimedia project that generates tarot readings steeped in the City of Tampa’s history and mythology. DVD-ROM gallery installation (2012) and web-based version with augmented reality (work in progress).
Teaching
Summary of teaching at The University of Tampa and elsewhere.
MA in Social and Emerging Media (UT)
- SEM 601 Digital Storytelling
University of Tampa Media Studies
- COM 323 Digital Communication and Society
- COM 425 Information Technology and Human Values
University of Tampa Media Making
- COM 242 Digital Citizenship
- COM 346 Writing for Interactive Media
- COM 375 Critical Media Practice
Other Teaching Positions
- SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, assistant professor
- Rhodes College, Memphis, adjunct instructor
- University of Florida, graduate assistant