Rate My Professor Ashley Mack

Mack’s research investigates how dominant gender and sexual ideologies are communicated in public life through mediated discourses and how queer and feminist of color resistance is mobilized in response within U.S. media cultures. Methodologies span rhetoric, media, and cultural studies, addressing decolonial feminisms, queer studies, gendered violence, neoliberalism, motherhood, critical whiteness, and racial politics of disciplinary legitimacy. Key publications include “Our bodies are not terra nullius”: Building a decolonial feminist resistance to gendered violence (2019, Women’s Studies in Communication, with T.R. Na’puti, 181 citations); Critiquing state and gendered violence in the age of #MeToo (2018, Quarterly Journal of Speech, with B.J. McCann, 79 citations); The self-made mom: Neoliberalism and masochistic motherhood in home-birth videos on YouTube (2016, Women’s Studies in Communication, 60 citations); Communication’s quest for whiteness: the racial politics of disciplinary legitimacy (2020, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, with B.J. McCann and R. Self, 37 citations); and “Harvey Weinstein, monster”: antiblackness and the myth of the monstrous rapist (2021, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, with B.J. McCann, 28 citations). Mack holds editorial board positions for Rhetoric Politics Culture, Communication Monographs, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, contributing to the field’s scholarly discourse.