Research Interests
My PhD, Weaving the Liminal: Diffracting Witchcraft Through Feminist Lineages of Sexual Violence Healing examines the relationships between feminist sexual assault counselling, somatics and witchcraft.
Tensions between feminist and trauma-informed approaches to gendered violence recovery are well documented. My research speaks to these tensions, querying whether something fruitful is eclipsed in reinscribing a binary between feminist and trauma-informed approaches to healing. I engage with this theoretical friction in two ways:
- 1. Tracing the development of feminist sexual assault counselling practice within Australia and its current ‘uneasy’ embrace of trauma theory, from an embodied perspective
- 2. By inviting perspectives on the relationship between corporeality and social structures from the feminist spiritual paradigm, Reclaiming Witchcraft – a new religious tradition which conceptualises embodied transformation as integral to social change.
Areas of Specialisation
- ☙ Gendered violence, sexual assault and trauma
- ☙ Feminist new materialisms
- ☙ Critical race theory, secularism & liberation theology
- ☙ Politicised somatics
- ☙ Feminist & phenomenological methodologies