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
It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.
