Stacey O'Neal Irwin

Stacey O. Irwin, PhD is a Professor in the Media Arts Production Program in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. She teaches digital media production and theory courses, communication, and media writing. Her interest in studying media through philosophy started in the classroom when teaching students to use sophisticated media production editing and design tools. She is also a media producer and has spent time working professionally in radio and television. She completed a faculty fellowship with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Education Foundation in Hollywood and shared her first TEDx talk in 2014 Her documentary Raising Faith - Stories about Dyslexia (2020) has won numerous awards.

Her most recent book is Survey of Media: Screens, Sounds, and Synergies (2025). It relies on sound research, and Irwin's more than thirty years of media education experience teaching the history of media and production/studio courses. Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection was her first book (2016). She also co-edited Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations (2017) with Yoni Van Den Eede and Galit Wellner.

Dr. Irwin has written chapters the following books: Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology), Postphenomenological Methodologies: New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human Relationships, Discourse of Disability on Communication Education: Narrative Based Research on Social Change (Peter Lang, 2016), Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers (Lexington, 2015), Race/Gender/Class/Media (Pearson, 2012), Teaching with Multimedia: Pedagogy in the Websphere (Hampton Press, 2010), Phenomenology and Media (Zeta, 2010) and Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators (Routledge, 2006).

Dr. Irwin has written journal articles for AI and Society, Human Studies, Explorations of Media Ecology, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, and served as Co-Editor for the Journal of Phenomenology & Practice (2014) Special Issue “Being Online.” Dr. Irwin lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her husband and three adult children.