Rachel Williamson

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Rachel Williamson teaches into the English, Cultural Studies and Cinema Studies programmes at the University of Canterbury. Her work focuses on gendered experiences of motherhood, reproduction and gender-based violence, and considers how these are informed by and represented in popular culture, film, television, and literature.

She is the author of 21st-Century Representations of Maternal Ambivalence published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their (Re)Presenting Gender series and has published academic articles on contemporary representations of mother-daughter relations, indigenous motherhood, and maternal regret. She is a frequent commentator and reviewer for the popular press.

Previously, Rachel worked as a policy advisor and educator within the domestic/family violence sector.

Education

  • 2022 
    The University of Canterbury, PhD, Cultural Studies
  • 2008 
    The University of Auckland, Master of Art, English

Publications

  • 2023
    21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence, Palgrave MacMillan
  • 2022
    Responding to domestic violence within the workplace: reflections and recommendations from the DVFREE workplace initiative in Aotearoa New Zealand, Journal of Labour & Industry
  • 2022
    Maternal Haunting in Elisa Albert's After Birth, Maternal Connections: When Daughter becomes Mother, Garvan & Kosior (eds)
  • 2022
    "It's not enough for me": Maternal Regret in HBO's Big Little Lies, Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections, O'Reilly (ed)
  • 2021
    A collective vision: Decolonisation and resisting individualism in Waru, Continuum, 35(1)

Professional Memberships

  • Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ)
  • Maternal Studies Scholars Network

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