Rosie Clare Shorter
I am a feminist researcher interested in gender, sexuality, religion and posthumanism.
I completed my PhD in the Religion and Society Research Cluster at Western Sydney University. My PhD research has focused on gender, sexuality and evangelism in the Sydney Anglican Diocese.
I currently teach a variety of undergrad subjects including sociology, religious studies and gender studies (across three universities: Western Sydney Uni, Deakin Uni and Melbourne Uni).
I have also completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts and a Master of Research at Macquarie University, in the department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies. In 2016 MQ sent me a cute certificate in the post because I received a Faculty of Arts Highest Achiever in a Unit of Study Award, for the unit ‘Feminism, Queer Theory and the Problem of Identity.’ (This always reminds me of primary school merit awards)
I am an avid reader of Sara Ahmed, a persistent reader of Rosi Braidotti, and a recent ‘convert’ to feminist trauma theologies and critical menstruation studies.
I’m also a creative arts girl, and outside of academic life, I’ve worked in the arts – mainly in theatre – since my early twenties (so I am no stranger to freelance, gig life). I have a weakness for Jane Austen adaptations, statement earrings, show tunes, ballads and writing ridiculously long sentences.
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