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 catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
