Dr. Erin Basinger (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a core faculty member in the interdisciplinary Health Psychology Ph.D. program and the Health/Medical Humanities minor, and an affiliate faculty member with the Public Health Sciences Ph.D. program.

Dr. Basinger is also a fat liberationist and activist who is passionate about fat people's experiences navigating a structurally biased healthcare system. She has published about the fat pregnant experience in ​Health Communication and Women's Reproductive Health and about weight stigma in the context of diabetes in Health Communication, the Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Southern Communication Journal.