AP Pierce

Allison Pierce (also known as AP) is a feminist media studies scholar whose interdisciplinary research centers on digital cultures from the perspective of feminist, queer, and labor studies frameworks. Her recent work examines the discourses, politics, and aesthetics of generative AI and its textual or artistic output, including its place within technocapitalism, consumer culture, and feminist and critical pedagogies. Her prior research has dabbled in many different areas of media in relation to gender and neoliberal capitalism, including masculinity in sex workers’ autobiographical comics and postfeminism and queer femininities on Bimbo TikTok. Her work has been published in Routledge’s Identities and Intimacies on Social Media and Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader as well as The Witch Studies Reader from Duke University Press.

AP’s teaching is rooted in inclusive and critical pedagogies that emphasize intellectual community and collaborative learning. Her courses work to build theoretical foundations that enable students to make connections between everyday digital and social encounters and broader intersecting systems of gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, and nation. She is committed to creating classroom spaces that foster political imagining and the creation of more liberatory futures.

Outside of teaching and research, AP enjoys printmaking, fiber arts, video games, gardening, and hanging out with her cat, Toast.