Stephanie L Tripp

Stephanie L Tripp serves as Chair of the Communication Department and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa, based in Jenkins Technology Building Room TECH 467 with contact email stripp@ut.edu.

Her academic credentials include:

• B.A. from University of Tampa (1983)
• M.A. from University of Florida (1996)
• Ph.D. from University of Florida (2006)

Tripp specializes in digital media theories and practices with emphasis on place-based community identification, exploring innovative scholarly research methodologies in the digital age. Her work examines how interactive media projects enable communities to reimagine their environments as sites of social and aesthetic engagement, particularly through the lens of cultural haunting and digital communications technologies. She is currently authoring a book on these interconnected themes.

She maintains active professional engagement through memberships in the University Film and Video Association, International Digital Media and Arts Association, and Society for Cinema and Media Studies.