Corrina Laughlin

Corrina Laughlin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department who specializes in Media Studies. She received her B.A. in English and Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara and she holds an M.A. in English from New York University and a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarly work focuses on digital culture, especially the interplay between religion and the digital and on digital feminisms. She is the author of the award-winning book Redeem All: How digital life is changing evangelical culture (University of California Press, 2022), an ethnographic monograph that explores how evangelical Christians in the United States have adapted to the digital age. Her current book project focuses on the alt-tech movement and its connections to ascendent white Christian nationalism. Her writing on these and other topics has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, Popular Communication, Communication, Culture & Critique and other peer-reviewed journals in Media Studies. Dr. Laughlin has written in the popular press for outlets such as The Atlantic and VICE, and has participated in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking and audio projects that have debuted at various festivals and conferences. From 2019 through 2024, Dr. Laughlin was an instructor of Communication at Loyola Marymount University where she taught courses for the Media Studies curriculum in the Communication Studies department. In 2024 she accepted a new role as an Assistant Professor in the same department.