Specialization

Productive and Reproductive Labors

Education

BA—Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's and Gender Studies (awarded by Univ. of Missouri in 2017)

BJ—Journalism, Strategic Communications (awarded by Univ. of Missouri in 2017)

MA—Feminist Studies (awarded by Univ. of California Santa Barbara in 2019)

Bio

AP (she/her) is an advanced doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara specializing in digital media studies, feminist and queer theory, affect studies, and Marxist feminisms.

Specifically, she is interested in the resistive circulation of unproductive aesthetics in digital space—whether that be in videos, discourse, memes, art, or “shitposts”. AP’s dissertation work, “Disruptive Diffusion: Examining Digital Cultures through Materiality, Anxiety, and Queer Futurity” looks at TikTok subcultures, generative AI, and higher education pedagogy through the modern technological landscape.

AP’s recent work can be found in Routledge’s Identities and Intimacies on Social Media, examining bimbos on TikTok, and in a co-authored chapter in Duke University Press’s Witch Studies Reader addressing the neoliberalization of the witch. She has a forthcoming chapter on AI-generated art and foundational feminist theory in Routledge’s textbook, Introduction to Feminist Studies: Notes From the Field.

Research

Research interests: Labor, antiwork politics, aesthetics and digital media studies, affect studies, gender and sexuality, queer studies