Ashleigh Greene Wade is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. Broadly speaking, her work traverses the fields of Black girlhood studies, digital and visual media studies, Black Feminist theory, and digital humanities. Wade has a PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and is an alumna of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies Fellowship Program. Her work on Black cultural production appears in Cultural Studies, The Black Scholar, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, Visual Arts Research, Women, Gender, and Families of Color, and National Political Science Review. Wade’s debut monograph, Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice (Duke University Press), explores the role of Black girls’ digital practices in documenting and preserving everyday Black life.
