Interview with Rebecca Stringer

Abstract

Dr. Rebecca Stringer studied Art History and Criticism and interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection before completing a Ph.D. in Political Science at Australian National University. Her research examines theories, meanings and politics of victimhood in modern and neoliberal times, and her book Knowing victims: Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times (2014) examines the neoliberal transformation in how we talk about and conceptualize victimization. Rebecca's other publications trace the dynamics of victim politics in contexts including Indigenous policy in Australia, the government of drug use, rape law, and the rise of precarious academic work, and her current projects examine the origins of victimology and the visual culture of victimhood. Rebecca teaches and supervises in the areas of feminist theory and critical victimology at the University of Otago. She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Alberta, the University of Sydney, and Flinders University, and has presented her research at conferences and events in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, North America, the UK, and Europe._Rebecca was co-editor, with Hilary Radner, of Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema (2011), and with Damien Riggs she co-edits the book series Critical perspectives on the psychology of sexuality, gender, and queer studies, which publishes scholarship challenging the way psychology has traditionally thought about bodies, identities, and experience, with a focus on sex, gender, and sexuality._