Michele White

Michele White is a Professor of Communication at Tulane University, associated with the Program for Gender and Sexuality Studies within the School of Liberal Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on media and visual culture, particularly the intersection of feminist, queer, and anti-racist theories with digital media technologies. She examines how digital platforms shape gendered interfaces, beauty cultures, and online hate, while exploring embodied experiences of touch and emotion through screens.

White has co-edited special issues like Feminist Media Histories on 'Genealogies of Feminist Media Studies' (2018) and is co-editing Anti-feminisms in Media Culture. Her books include Producing Masculinity (2019), Producing Women (2015), and The Body and the Screen (2006). Her current projects include Touch/Screen/Theory, which investigates digital devices and embodied feelings.

Her teaching spans new media studies, communication theory, and feminist critiques of digital culture. Her work critically engages with platforms like eBay, LambdaMOO, and social media, analyzing how they reflect and reproduce gender, race, and class dynamics. She addresses contemporary issues such as anti-feminist discourses, digital mourning practices, and the politics of online identity.