Alisa Hardy

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research examines the interconnections between Black rhetorical studies, memory studies and digital and media studies. I work with archival material, digitized artifacts, and born-digital social media data. My scholarship aims to address two primary research interests: (1) I evaluate social justice rhetoric across digital media contexts that center the voices and lived experiences of Black women and (2) I interrogate how Black users challenge and shape the neoliberal structure of the internet, which intersects with race, memory, gender, culture, and power.

My work has been published in multiple academic journals including Digital Humanities Quarterly, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Critical Cultural Studies in Communication, and Critical Media Studies. I also teach courses on digital culture including Leadership in the Digital Age and Digital Storytelling and Culture. My work has been published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Critical Cultural Studies in Communication, and Critical Media Studies.