Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
She/They
AP Pierce is a feminist media studies scholar researching and writing at the intersections of feminist and queer theory, affect and aesthetics, and visual cultures. They earned their B.A. and B.J. at the University of Missouri and M.A. from UC Santa Barbara, where they are now a Ph.D. candidate in Feminist Studies. Their current project examines the circulation of what they call “unproductive aesthetics,” or anti-work affective and aesthetic flows, in digital media and user-generated content. Their favorite topics on which to teach are abolition/anti-carceral feminism, reproductive and emotional labors, and various TikTok trends. AP has forthcoming writing in Identities and Intimacies on Social Media (Routledge 2023) and The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2023).