Education

Research

Research interests

• Strategic Communication
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Media & Technology
• Autoethnography
• Community-Based Research

Select publications

• Megan Alyssa Fletcher (2025).
  Navigating Failed Systems: An Autoethnographic Account of Documenting Abuse and the Call for Trauma-Informed Approaches
  The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure, 121-137.
  
• Megan Alyssa Fletcher (20185).
  We to Me: An Autoethnographic Discovery of Self, In and Out of Domestic Abuse
  Women's Studies in Communication, 41(1), 42-59.
  National Communication Association: Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award (2019)

Dr. Megan Alyssa Fletcher is a communication scholar specializing in women’s health and media. Through community-engaged research, she employs narrative-driven and interdisciplinary approaches to examine how communication shapes access to care and support for survivors of violence. Her work investigates intake procedures across medical and public health sectors, exploring how these documents mediate access, determine service-worthiness, and impact patient outcomes. The aim of her research is to actively improve conditions for women who have experienced abuse, a goal rooted in effective strategic communication. Her first research project, “We to Me: An Autoethnographic Discovery of Self – In and Out of Domestic Abuse”, was published in Women’s Studies in Communication. For this manuscript, she received the Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award from the National Communication Association (NCA) in 2019. Dr. Fletcher earned her PhD in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media from North Carolina State University in 2022. Born in New Bedford, Dr. Fletcher is thrilled to partner with local organizations for research endeavors and student engagement opportunities. As a first-generation college student who attended UMass Dartmouth, Dr. Fletcher is keenly interested in supporting our students in their academic and professional pursuits.

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