Selected presentations and publications

• Wells-Jensen, Sheri, and S.J. Beard. Forthcoming. "Disabled people as a crucial resource in mitigating global risk." In A science of global risk. Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2023. "Occupy space: Will disabled people fly?" In James S.J. Schwartz, Linda Billings, and Erika Nesvold (eds.). Reclaiming space. Oxford University Press.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2023. "Welcoming disability as necessary in space travel." In Charles S. Cockell (ed.). The institutions of extraterrestrial liberty. Oxford University Press.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri, Michael, Emily K., and Minkara, Mona. 2022. "How blind professors win the first day: Setting ourselves up for success." In Jessamyn Neuhaus (ed.). Picture a professor: Interrupting biases about faculty and increasing student learning. West Virginia University Press.
• 2022. "Shattering the ultimate glass ceiling: Disability and space". Invited speaker, Amazon Disability Month Presentation Series.
• 2022. "Results from Flight One: Disabled people in microgravity." Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology Annual Conference, University of Mississippi.
• 2021. "Astronaut inclusivity" panel. Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
• 2021. "Embracing the inevitable: How disabled people will live and work in space." Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty Conference. UK Centre for Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh.
• Schwartz, James S.J., Wells-Jensen, Sheri, Traphagan, John W., Weibel, Deana L., and Smith, Kelly C. 2021. "What do we need to ask before settling space?" Journal of the British Interplanetary Society V74 #4.
• Sheri Wells-Jensen and Kimberly Spallinger. 2020. "Extraterrestrial message construction: Guidelines for the use of xenolinguistics in the classroom." In Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, and Amy V. Fountain (eds.). Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy. Oxford University Press.
• 2020. "Disability inclusion in space exploration." Invited speaker, Ames Disability Advocates, NASA Ames Research Center.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri B., Joshua A. Miele, and Brandie L. Bohney. 2019. "An Alternate Vision for Colonization." Futures Vol. 110: 50-53.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2018. "The case for disabled astronauts". Scientific American: Observations.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri B. 2018. "Could we learn E.T.'s language?" (in three parts) METI International Blog.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2018. "Things you didn't see because you were looking: Blind aliens, science and interspecies miscommunication". Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology conference. Reno, Nevada.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2018. ICS Fellows Lecture. "Imagining life on other planets; reimagining life on Earth". Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University. (My thanks to Dr. Dale Smith of the BGSU Planetarium for awesome help with this.)
• 2018. Discussant at the first International Braille Research Symposium at Rice University.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2018. "An Ordinary Stranger" in Rejoinder Issue 3, published by the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2017. "That Tenured Man". Speculative Grammarian, VOL CLXXX #2. (This particular publication pleases me very much.)
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. May 2017. "Earth linguistics, xenolinguistics, and the possibility of communication." NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Washington.
• YouTube video addressing the Foundation Fighting Blindness's ableist #HowEyeSeeIt funding campaign in 2016. (My thanks to JoBeth Gonzalez and Kimberly Spallinger for getting it exactly right, to Jason Wells-Jensen for expert filming and editing, and to Rebecca Conklin for many other considerations. This is a pretty good video for quickly showing a whole bunch of nasty stereotypes about blindness; my colleagues played their roles so well that I was genuinely furious by the time I slammed that door.)
• Wells-Jensen, Sheri. 2016. "Anthony don't: On blindness and the portrayal of Marie-Laure in All the Light We Cannot See". San Francisco Lighthouse Interpoint Series.
• Just for musical fun: The Braille Song, performed by Innocuous Mustard, featuring Perkins Brailler percussion.