Academic Positions

Visiting Instructor - School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University, 2022-2023

Lecturer - School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University, 2020 - 2022

Graduate Researcher - Purdue Research Foundation, 2019 - 2020

Graduate Instructor - American Studies, Purdue University, 2018 - 2019

Graduate Instructor - Introductory Composition, Purdue University, 2012 - 2015

Publications 

Horrocks, Stephen. “How to Wear (and Hide) Your Insulin Pump: Managing Device Connectedness with Gendered Bodies Online.” In (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture, edited by Bianca C. Frazer and Heather R. Walker, 203-216. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Horrocks, Stephen. “Materializing Datafied Body Doubles: Insulin Pumps, Blood Glucose Testing, and the Production of Useable Bodies.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 1 (2019): 1-26.

Horrocks, Stephen. “Pumping and Passing: Mediating Diabetes Treatment and Health Identity through New Media.” In Semiotics 2015: Virtual Identities, edited by Jamin Pelkey and Stéphanie Walsh Matthews, 55-63. Charlottesville, NC: PDC, 2016.

Works-in-Progress

[Monographs]

Compelled Freedom: Cultural Power, Medical Devices, and the Techno-Liberation of Type 1 Diabetes

[Articles]

“Tinkering with Normalcy: Richard K. Bernstein and the History of At-Home Blood Glucose Testing”

”Gaming Diabetes: Type 1 Diabetes Patient-Training Video Games from the 1990s to Today”

Honors and Awards

Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) Research Grant, Purdue University, 2019.

Chester E. Eisinger Research Award, American Studies Program, Purdue University, 2018.

Research Assistantship, “Collaborative Innovation and the Global Midwest: Inter-disciplinary Design and Envisioning Prairie Futures,” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Humanities Without Walls collaborative project, 2016-2018. 

Chester E. Eisinger Prize, American Studies Program, Purdue University, 2016.

Winning paper: “‘Pumps and Sexy Time’: Online Diabetes Communities and Techno-Intimate Relationships”

Invited Talks

“Pumps and Sexy Time: Online Diabetes Communities and Techno-Intimate Relationships,” Medical Humanities Seminar Series, Medical Humanities & Health Studies Program, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), September 2020, Indianapolis, IN.

Conference Presentations

“Medicalized Freedom Through Control: A Crip Critique of the Techno-Liberation of Type 1 Diabetes,” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), November 2022, Dublin, Ireland.

“Tinkering with Normalcy: Richard K. Bernstein and the History of At-Home Blood Glucose Testing,” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), October 2020, New Orleans, LA [opted out due to COVID-19].

“Information & the Material World,” Roundtable Discussion with Whitney Laemmli, Liz Petrick, Stephanie Dick, Lindsay Weinberg, and Shannon McMullen, Science & Technology in the Long 20th Century, November 2019, West Lafayette, IN.

“Planting the Techno-Medical Flag: Insulin Pumps, Intellectual Property, and Fractured Medical Device Ownership,” American Studies Association (ASA), November 2018, Atlanta, GA.

“Insulin Pumps, Privileged Otherness, and the Bounds of Hi-Tech Medical Treatment,” 43rd Annual American Studies Symposium, April 2018, West Lafayette, IN.

Prutzer, Ned, Stephen Horrocks, Anita Say Chan, “Innovation in the Global Midwest: Research and Pedagogy Across Regional Archives,” Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), November 2017, Orlando, FL.

“Reading Devices, Re-Reading Bodies: Insulin Pumps, Type 1 Diabetes, and Datafied Body Doubles,” MidweSTS, September 2017, Bloomington, IN.

“Sex and the Insulin Pump: Diabetes, Techno-Intimate Relationships, and New Media,” American Studies Association (ASA), November 2016, Denver, CO.

“The Techno-Medicalized Self: Connecting Insulin Pumps and People with Type 1 Diabetes,” 41st Annual American Studies Symposium, Purdue University, April 2016, West Lafayette, IN.

“‘Pumps and Sexy Time’: Online Diabetes Communities and Techno-Intimate Relationships,” American Studies Graduate Symposium: Queer/ing Popular Culture, December 2015, West Lafayette, IN.

“Insulin Pumps and the Construction of New Technoscientific Identities,” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), November 2015, Denver, CO.

“Pumping and Passing: Mediating Diabetes Treatment and Health Identity through New Media,” Semiotic Society of America (SSA), October 2015, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Judicial Opinions and the Violence of Legal Language,” 40th Annual American Studies Symposium, Purdue University, April 2015, West Lafayette, IN.

“Reordering Legal Space in the Jim Crow North: The South Side Action Committee and Restrictive Covenants in Chicago,” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), September 2014, Memphis, TN.

“One Dark, Lonely Berry: The Influence of Salt Lake City on the Writings of Wallace Thurman,” National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), March 2012, Ogden, UT.

Courses Taught

GRAD/ENGL 6XX - Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Social Justice and Inclusion

AMST/HIST 6XX - Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Difference

WGSS 3XX - Women and Work

WGSS 3XX - Comparative Studies in Gender and Culture

WGSS 2XX - Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: An Introduction

WGSS 2XX - Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies

AMST 2XX – Interpreting America

AMST 2XX – Cultures of Health and Technology

ENGL 1XX – Introductory Composition: Composing with Popular Culture

ENGL 1XX – Introductory Composition: Writing Your Way into Purdue

Guest Lectures and Community Education

“Health and the 2016 Election,” Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association (WALLA), April 2017, West Lafayette, IN.

 “Urban Segregation and Restrictive Covenants,” Guest Lecture, AMST 201: The Changing Face of American Bodies (Kera Lovell), February 2015, West Lafayette, IN.

“Understanding Ferguson: A Forum Discussion,” with Tyrell Connor, Tarkington Hall, Purdue University, January 2015, West Lafayette, IN.

 “Engaging Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom,” Purdue Writing Lab Brown Bag Series, February 2014, West Lafayette, IN.

 “Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Guest Lecture, ENGL 108: Engaging in Public Discourse (Rachel Lacasse-Ford), October 2013, West Lafayette, IN. 

“History of Race and Racism at Purdue,” Guest Lecture, ENGL 108: Engaging in Public Discourse (Rachel Lacasse-Ford), August 2013, West Lafayette, IN.

“The New ‘Model-Minority’: Major Shifts in Mormon Culture, 1890-1930,” Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association (WALLA), April 2013, West Lafayette, IN.

Professional Affiliations

American Studies Association (ASA)

Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)