Dr. Ashley Mattheis
Guest Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,; Doctoral Fellow, Center for Analysis of the Radical Right
2021, 2023
Dr. Ashley A. Mattheis is currently a guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds fellowships with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Her work brings together cultural studies, media studies, and rhetorical criticism, through the lens of feminist theory to explore gendered digital cultures such as the Alt-Right, the ‘Manosphere,’ and #Tradwives with a goal of better understanding how gendered logics are used to promote racial hate and discrimination. She is the author of “Shieldmaidens of Whiteness: (Alt)Maternalism and Women Recruiting for the Far / Alt-Right,” in the Journal of Deradicalization, “Disrupting the Digital Divide: Extremism’s Integration of Offline/Online Practice,” in Interventionen, and “#TradCulture: Reproducing Whiteness and Neo-Fascism Through Gendered Discourse Online,” a forthcoming chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At the Summit
The inaugural Eradicate Hate Summit was a truly impressive gathering of leaders dedicated to finding lasting and effective solutions to violent extremism. I was particularly moved by the prominence given to survivors and family members of victims of hate and violence throughout the event. Their stories and those of so many others must be at the center of what we do and why we do it.
