Ashli Q. Stokes

Education

• B.A., Virginia Tech University
• M.A., Wake Forest University
• Ph.D., University of Georgia

Areas of Interest

• Rhetoric and Public Communication
• Southern Food and Food Studies
• Identity, Culture, and Regions
• Civic Engagement and the Humanities
• Organizational Rhetoric, Corporate & Activist Communication, and Social Responsibility

Books

• Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience (2024)
• City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide (2020)
• Why Does No One in My Books Look Like Me? TOBE and Ongoing Questions about Race, Representation, and Identity (2018)
• Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South (2016)

Selected Grants

• National Humanities Center “Being Human” Festival Awardee, 2023
• Fulbright Fellowship UK, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2021
• NC Humanities Large Grant, Walking Through Carolina: An Outdoor Living Exhibit, 2019

Courses Taught

• Consuming Southern Foodways
• Organizational Rhetoric
• Public Advocacy
• The Rhetoric of Foodways
• Appalachian Foodways

Professional Appointments

UNC Charlotte

• Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, 2006-Present
• Interim Chair: Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies, 2024 – Present
• Director: Center for the Study of the New South 2016-2020
• Honors Director: Communication Studies, 2012-2024

Virginia Tech

• Assistant Professor, 2004-2006