Research Interests
Race and Ethinicity
Gender
Social Movements
African American Studies
Digital Studies
Media Studies
Critical Cultural Studies
Research Description
Alisa Hardy is an Assistant Professor of Communication. Her research integrates the study of critical-cultural rhetoric, digital media and technology studies, and Black feminism. Hardy’s scholarship examines how Black women use emerging technologies to engage in practices of resistance and remembrance. She explores how the public memory of Black women is expressed across digital and physical spaces. Her research appears in journals such as Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Hardy teaches courses on digital culture, leadership and rhetorical theory including her signature course Leadership in the Digital Age. This course examines how communicative practices and platforms form contemporary leadership and activism.
Courses Taught
Leadership in the Digital Age
Rhetoric of Black America
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Communication
Recent Publications
Hardy, A. (2024). Breaking bridges to the Pied Piper: how Black feminists digitally wreck the legacy of R. Kelly on Ebony.com. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 41(3), 223-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2024.2383180
Hardy, A., Salzano, M., & Pfister, D. S. (2024). From Black Twitter to Musk's X: A Case Study in Rhetoric, Media, Culture, and Power. In N. Crick (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power (pp. 428-442). (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430858-38
Hardy, A. (2023). Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy. Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, 20(2), 234-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2188913
Hardy, A. D. (2023). Review: J. Nish's Activist Literacies: Transnational Feminisms and Social Media Rhetorics. Women's Studies in Communication, 46(3), 348-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2227006
Steele, C. K., & Hardy, A. (2023). “I Wish I Could Give You This Feeling”: Black Digital Commons and the Rhetoric of “The Corner”. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 53(3), 316-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2023.2200704