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Specializations

  • Feminist media studies
  • Digital content creation
  • Social media influencers

Research Areas

Biography

Anna received her PhD in Communication from the University of Washington in 2021. Her research broadly addresses the intersections of content creation, digital labor, affect/emotion, and identity. She is particularly interested in the role of influencers in the global social media ecosystem, and the ways in which emotion and the body manifest in online social spaces. Her work has been published in Communication, Culture & Critique and Feminist Media Studies, and she has taught a variety of courses including intercultural communication and public speaking.

In addition to research and teaching, Anna has worked in inclusive academic programming and project management. Most recently, in affiliation with the Tech Policy Lab, she served as the staff lead for the University of Washington Technology & Society Task Force.

Education

  • Ph D, Communication, University of Washington, 2021
  • MA, Communication, University of Washington, 2018
  • BA, International Studies, University of Iowa, 2014

Awards

  • Doctoral Honors Seminar - National Communication Association, 2020
  • Top Paper in Media Studies - Western States Communication Association, 2019
  • Phi Beta Kappa - University of Iowa, 2014

Publications and Contributions

Presentations

  • Transforming Engineering and Computing Education for Equity In an Equitable Manner (2022)
    The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) - New Orleans, LA
  • Let’s Write About Impact! Creating persuasive impact statements to disseminate and propagate RED research (2021)
    American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition - Long Beach, CA
  • Unified Voice and Group Agency: Developing Teams to Transform Engineering Education (2021)
    American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition - Long Beach, CA
  • Choosing Recovery: Postfeminist Self-Surveillance and Affective Labor on YouTube (2020)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference - Denver, CO (Conference canceled)
  • Digital media, micro-celebrity, & self-presentation (2020)
    COM 495C: Social and Cultural Impacts of Technology and Media - Seattle, WA
  • K-pop, Social Media, & Fan Activism (2020)
    COM 238: Rhetoric and Popular Culture - Seattle, WA
  • ’I’m Poppy’: Cyberfeminism, commodification, and the transnational cyborg celebrity (2019)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference - Seattle, WA
  • “it’s actually BTS’ world. You’re just living in it: The Global Impact of K-pop Fandom” (2019)
    COM 238: Rhetoric and Popular Culture - Seattle, WA
  • Co-constructing Transnational Identity: An exploration of YouTube discourse and insider knowledge (2019)
    National Communication Association Annual Convention - Seattle, WA
  • Co-constructing Transnational Identity: An exploration of YouTube discourse and insider knowledge (2019)
    National Communication Association Annual Convention - Baltimore, MD
  • Social Influencers and the Embodied Self-Brand: Representation of the Recovering Body in YouTube Lifestyle Vlogs (2019)
    C4: The Conference on Contemporary Celebrity Culture - Des Moines, IA
  • Feel Like This: Intimacy, Interaction, and Ideology in EXP EDITION’s YouTube Vlogs (2018)
    National Communication Association Annual Convention - Salt Lake City, UT
  • Visible Bodies and Imagined Futures: An Intersectional Analysis of Okja and Snowpiercer (2018)
    Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference - Toronto, Ontario, Canada