Alexis Stakem

Alexis graduated from West Chester University in 2026 with a BA in English and a minor in Social Work Concepts. While there, she worked as a Peer Educator at the Center for Women and Gender Equity, with her most favorite responsibility being helming their book club each semester. Alexis was similarly involved with WCU’s independent, student-run newspaper, The Quad.

Alexis’s research interests include print culture and Asian Amerian literature. In undergrad, she completed two funded research projects focused on Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far, the first of which examined how Eaton utilized her writings within her short story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912), to respond to popular culture representations of San Francisco’s Chinatown in tourist literature. The following project used Eaton’s recently rediscovered writings within Mary Chapman’s Becoming Sui Sin Far (2016) to analyze the influence of place of publication on Eaton’s representation of Chinese identity. Alexis also has a burgeoning interest in stylistics, particularly conversational analysis, and discovering how the structure of what we say helps convey a specific meaning in and of itself.

Some of Alexis’s favorite authors include Miranda July, Sayaka Murata, and Lily King. She is currently searching for a more niche favorite ice cream flavor and loves whenever she gets to be in close proximity to some body of water.