Rebecca Saunders
Biographic Data
| ID | 308003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Saunders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunders |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNDERS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9566-4744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Entendre l’Inouï: Resonance, volume, and transduction in Gilbert Gatore’s Le passé devant soi
This paper analyses three features of sound – resonance, volume, and transduction – in Gilbert Gatore’s novel of memory and the Rwandan genocide, Le passé devant soi [The Past Before Us]. Theorising two modes of resonance in Gatore’s novel – thematic and semiotic – I demonstrate how the novel is structured by semantic forms of resonance, how those resonances incite significance, and how they are augmented by a semiotic resonance that produces “vi…
Introduction: “Sound Sense & Translation”
This introduction aims to elaborate key questions raised by the intersections and divergences among the papers in this special issue, all of which, from their diverse perspectives, address the question of what it means to translate sound into sense. We elaborate the polysemic reach of the terms sound and sense, the former denoting both perception and meaning, the latter signifying both the vibrations that produce the sense of hearing and (in adje…
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture
Big data has been crucial to the expansion of the pornography industry and its online evolution over the past 40 years. The datafication of digital users’ desire is the economic basis of free porn platforms. These now dominate the industry and foster an easy accessibility that has made pornography so profoundly culturally influential. The Pornhub Network is well-known as the world’s largest collection of free porn sites, receiving over one hundre…
Sexual Datafication
This editorial brings together the articles on sexual datafication available in Vol. 27, Issue 7 of Sexualities
Susceptibility and Resilience, a Fig Tree and a Scream
Analyzing two key figures in Elif Shafak’s novel The Island of Missing Trees—a schoolgirl’s scream and a narrating fig tree—this essay analyzes the intersection between susceptibility and resilience, particularly as these terms are developed in psychology, trauma studies, and ecology. I argue that the novel’s resonant scream critiques the discourse of psychological resilience on multiple counts: its inadequacy as a response to complex trauma, its…
Lantite’s impact on teacher diversity: Unintended consequences of testing pre-service teachers
Australian schools are diverse, and support students from a wide range of racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, as well as students with disability. Ironically, efforts to ensure equally diverse teacher workforces have been ineffective. Attempts to improve broader representation in teachers have been hampered by a homogenous approach to teacher recruitment and education. In 2016, Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (L…
Domination and the Arts of Digital Resistance in Social Media Creator Labor
This article conducts a collaborative qualitative thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with social media content creators ( N = 53) based in and/or originated from the United Kingdom. It aims to better understand how creators within one peripheral region in Northern England express their labor experiences as both practices of domination and e-resistance. The article contributes an original typology of the relationships between practices of cr…
Sex tech, sexual data and materiality
In its consummate materiality, the sexual body is vital to the current discourse in digital health studies, disability studies and critical, feminist and postcolonial data studies, and broader theoretical trends in new materialism that insist on the embodied status of data production. This sexual body is a vital element in understanding the materiality at the heart of data production. This article explores how datafication becomes inscribed into …
Here be monsters: Monster porn and the crisis of masculinity
This article analyses the pornographic subgenre monster porn. It considers animated pornographic monsters as vital revelatory symbols in which significant anxieties and discourses around contemporary male sexuality can be read. This article relates monster porn to recent media controversies concerning men such as Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, figures consistently understood as “monsters” and considers how the metaphorical potency of porno…
Sex tracking apps and sexual self-care
‘To-Do List: Masturbate’ reads one of the Instagram posts for the fashionable, new Lioness vibrator and tracking app. Lioness is just one of the most publicised of a spate of sex tracking apps principally aimed at women that have emerged over the past 5 years, which asks users to monitor their sexual interactions, and which also offers medical and holistic advice on how to improve one’s sex life. This article focuses on how the value of this tech…
Introduction to the special issue: Algorithms for her? Feminist claims to technical language
mi ni s t cl ai m s t o t e c h ni c al la n g u a g e .F e mi ni s t M e di a S t u di e s 2 0 (5) , p p .7 3 0-7 3 2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 1 4 6 8 0 7 7 7. 2 0 2 0
F*!? the Digital
Projected onto a wall of the community gallery LOW in Walthamstow, London, black trans porn performer Natassia Dreams murmurs quietly to her absent lover Abella: ‘I want to touch your face, your be
Grey, gonzo and the grotesque: The legacy of porn star Sasha Grey
This article offers a retrospective analysis of the career of Sasha Grey, one of the most significant porn stars of the twenty-first century. The article focuses in particular on the malleability of the increasingly dominant pornographic style of gonzo and considers how Grey’s use of alternative porn elements within the customarily macho and androcentric gonzo style provides new avenues for subversive and ‘liberated’ female sexual expression. Gre…
Deep Surfaces: Pottery Decoration and Identity in the Mission Period
Coastal shell middens in Florida: A view from the Archaic period
Keeping a Distance: Heidegger and Derrida on Foreignness and Friends
Distance is central to both Heidegger’s depiction of being-in-the-world and Derrida’s theorization of the culture of friendship. It is equally fundamental to the structure of language and, I argue, to the concept of the foreign. This essay brings together these theories of distance and demonstrates the ways they act on and through each other, the role that linguistic distance plays in constructing both foreigners and friends, and the permeable se…
World Engraved: Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture
Sobre o intraduzível: Sofrimento humano, a linguagem de direitos humanos e a Comissão de Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul
Este ensaio analisa os prós e contras decorrentes da tradução de demonstrações de sofrimento humano para uma linguagem padronizada de direitos humanos. Defendo que a experiência da Comissão de Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul evidencia de que maneira tal tradução torna o sofrimento humano, ao mesmo tempo, inteligível e ininteligível. De fato, a linguagem de direitos humanos se mostrou significativamente útil ao viabilizar o reconhecimento…
Decolonizing the Body: Gender, Nation, and Narration in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable
Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel L'enfant de sable proposes that gender is a colonization of the body. This essay considers that proposition by placing it in a theoretical dialogue with postcolonial and gender studies and analyzing it in the context of Morocco. I critique the language of natural development common to both gender and colonization, examining its processes of abjection, reliance on distinct genres, and dependence on style. Arguing that Ben…
Disgrace in the Time of a Truth Commission
Written during the highly mediatized proceedings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace is structured around a series of disturbing interrogatio
Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic
Research Article| December 01 2005 Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 522–532. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Saunders; Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic. Comparat…
Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation
Book Review| May 01 2005 Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003 viii + 353 pp., $22.95 (cloth) Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 249–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-249 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Introduction: Mourning and Memory
Research Article| May 01 2005 Introduction: Mourning and Memory Rebecca Saunders; Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kamran Aghaie Kamran Aghaie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-17 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca…
Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization
Research Article| August 01 2001 Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 88–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-88 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Saunders; Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate…
Mission-period settlement structure: A test of the model at san martín de Timucua
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando De Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Volume I: Account by a Gentleman from Elvas, Translated and Edited by James Alexander Robertson in 1933 with Notes Revised and Updated by John H. Hann Account by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the De Soto Expedition, Newly Translated and Edited by John Worth, With Notes by John Worth and Charles Hudson Account by Rodrigo Rangel, De Soto's Secretary, Newly Translated and Edited by John Worth with Notes by John Worth and Charles Hudson Canete …
Introduction: Mourning and Memory
Research Article| May 01 2005 Introduction: Mourning and Memory Rebecca Saunders; Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kamran Aghaie Kamran Aghaie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-17 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca…
Sex tracking apps and sexual self-care
‘To-Do List: Masturbate’ reads one of the Instagram posts for the fashionable, new Lioness vibrator and tracking app. Lioness is just one of the most publicised of a spate of sex tracking apps principally aimed at women that have emerged over the past 5 years, which asks users to monitor their sexual interactions, and which also offers medical and holistic advice on how to improve one’s sex life. This article focuses on how the value of this tech…
Domination and the Arts of Digital Resistance in Social Media Creator Labor
This article conducts a collaborative qualitative thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with social media content creators ( N = 53) based in and/or originated from the United Kingdom. It aims to better understand how creators within one peripheral region in Northern England express their labor experiences as both practices of domination and e-resistance. The article contributes an original typology of the relationships between practices of cr…
Mission-period settlement structure: A test of the model at san martín de Timucua
Sex tech, sexual data and materiality
In its consummate materiality, the sexual body is vital to the current discourse in digital health studies, disability studies and critical, feminist and postcolonial data studies, and broader theoretical trends in new materialism that insist on the embodied status of data production. This sexual body is a vital element in understanding the materiality at the heart of data production. This article explores how datafication becomes inscribed into …
Introduction to the special issue: Algorithms for her? Feminist claims to technical language
mi ni s t cl ai m s t o t e c h ni c al la n g u a g e .F e mi ni s t M e di a S t u di e s 2 0 (5) , p p .7 3 0-7 3 2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 1 4 6 8 0 7 7 7. 2 0 2 0
Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization
Research Article| August 01 2001 Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 88–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-88 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Saunders; Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate…
Grey, gonzo and the grotesque: The legacy of porn star Sasha Grey
This article offers a retrospective analysis of the career of Sasha Grey, one of the most significant porn stars of the twenty-first century. The article focuses in particular on the malleability of the increasingly dominant pornographic style of gonzo and considers how Grey’s use of alternative porn elements within the customarily macho and androcentric gonzo style provides new avenues for subversive and ‘liberated’ female sexual expression. Gre…
Deep Surfaces: Pottery Decoration and Identity in the Mission Period
Keeping a Distance: Heidegger and Derrida on Foreignness and Friends
Distance is central to both Heidegger’s depiction of being-in-the-world and Derrida’s theorization of the culture of friendship. It is equally fundamental to the structure of language and, I argue, to the concept of the foreign. This essay brings together these theories of distance and demonstrates the ways they act on and through each other, the role that linguistic distance plays in constructing both foreigners and friends, and the permeable se…
Sobre o intraduzível: Sofrimento humano, a linguagem de direitos humanos e a Comissão de Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul
Este ensaio analisa os prós e contras decorrentes da tradução de demonstrações de sofrimento humano para uma linguagem padronizada de direitos humanos. Defendo que a experiência da Comissão de Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul evidencia de que maneira tal tradução torna o sofrimento humano, ao mesmo tempo, inteligível e ininteligível. De fato, a linguagem de direitos humanos se mostrou significativamente útil ao viabilizar o reconhecimento…
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture
Big data has been crucial to the expansion of the pornography industry and its online evolution over the past 40 years. The datafication of digital users’ desire is the economic basis of free porn platforms. These now dominate the industry and foster an easy accessibility that has made pornography so profoundly culturally influential. The Pornhub Network is well-known as the world’s largest collection of free porn sites, receiving over one hundre…
Sexual Datafication
This editorial brings together the articles on sexual datafication available in Vol. 27, Issue 7 of Sexualities
Decolonizing the Body: Gender, Nation, and Narration in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable
Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel L'enfant de sable proposes that gender is a colonization of the body. This essay considers that proposition by placing it in a theoretical dialogue with postcolonial and gender studies and analyzing it in the context of Morocco. I critique the language of natural development common to both gender and colonization, examining its processes of abjection, reliance on distinct genres, and dependence on style. Arguing that Ben…
Disgrace in the Time of a Truth Commission
Written during the highly mediatized proceedings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace is structured around a series of disturbing interrogatio
Changes in the marital relationship during the first pregnancy
Some scholars who have studied the impact of the first pregnancy on marital relationships have emphasized the increase in marital strain, while others have emphasized pregnancy's beneficial effects. To clarify the nature of changes in couples’ relationships during the first pregnancy, couples in the first trimester (n = 48) and last trimester (n = 52) were compared on aspects of their relationships that reflected marital strain or strength: confl…
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando De Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Volume I: Account by a Gentleman from Elvas, Translated and Edited by James Alexander Robertson in 1933 with Notes Revised and Updated by John H. Hann Account by Luis Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the De Soto Expedition, Newly Translated and Edited by John Worth, With Notes by John Worth and Charles Hudson Account by Rodrigo Rangel, De Soto's Secretary, Newly Translated and Edited by John Worth with Notes by John Worth and Charles Hudson Canete …
Mission-period settlement structure: A test of the model at san martín de Timucua
Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization
Research Article| August 01 2001 Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate of Globalization Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001) 21 (1-2): 88–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-21-1-2-88 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Saunders; Uncanny Presence: The Foreigner at the Gate…
Disgrace in the Time of a Truth Commission
Written during the highly mediatized proceedings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace is structured around a series of disturbing interrogatio
Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic
Research Article| December 01 2005 Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 522–532. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-3-522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Saunders; Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic. Comparat…
Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation
Book Review| May 01 2005 Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003 viii + 353 pp., $22.95 (cloth) Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 249–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-249 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Introduction: Mourning and Memory
Research Article| May 01 2005 Introduction: Mourning and Memory Rebecca Saunders; Rebecca Saunders Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kamran Aghaie Kamran Aghaie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 17-29. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-17 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca…
Decolonizing the Body: Gender, Nation, and Narration in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'enfant de sable
Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel L'enfant de sable proposes that gender is a colonization of the body. This essay considers that proposition by placing it in a theoretical dialogue with postcolonial and gender studies and analyzing it in the context of Morocco. I critique the language of natural development common to both gender and colonization, examining its processes of abjection, reliance on distinct genres, and dependence on style. Arguing that Ben…
Sobre o intraduzível: Sofrimento humano, a linguagem de direitos humanos e a Comissão de Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul
Este ensaio analisa os prós e contras decorrentes da tradução de demonstrações de sofrimento humano para uma linguagem padronizada de direitos humanos. Defendo que a experiência da Comissão de Verdade e Reconciliação da África do Sul evidencia de que maneira tal tradução torna o sofrimento humano, ao mesmo tempo, inteligível e ininteligível. De fato, a linguagem de direitos humanos se mostrou significativamente útil ao viabilizar o reconhecimento…
World Engraved: Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture
Coastal shell middens in Florida: A view from the Archaic period
Keeping a Distance: Heidegger and Derrida on Foreignness and Friends
Distance is central to both Heidegger’s depiction of being-in-the-world and Derrida’s theorization of the culture of friendship. It is equally fundamental to the structure of language and, I argue, to the concept of the foreign. This essay brings together these theories of distance and demonstrates the ways they act on and through each other, the role that linguistic distance plays in constructing both foreigners and friends, and the permeable se…
Deep Surfaces: Pottery Decoration and Identity in the Mission Period
Grey, gonzo and the grotesque: The legacy of porn star Sasha Grey
This article offers a retrospective analysis of the career of Sasha Grey, one of the most significant porn stars of the twenty-first century. The article focuses in particular on the malleability of the increasingly dominant pornographic style of gonzo and considers how Grey’s use of alternative porn elements within the customarily macho and androcentric gonzo style provides new avenues for subversive and ‘liberated’ female sexual expression. Gre…
F*!? the Digital
Projected onto a wall of the community gallery LOW in Walthamstow, London, black trans porn performer Natassia Dreams murmurs quietly to her absent lover Abella: ‘I want to touch your face, your be
Introduction to the special issue: Algorithms for her? Feminist claims to technical language
mi ni s t cl ai m s t o t e c h ni c al la n g u a g e .F e mi ni s t M e di a S t u di e s 2 0 (5) , p p .7 3 0-7 3 2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 1 4 6 8 0 7 7 7. 2 0 2 0
Here be monsters: Monster porn and the crisis of masculinity
This article analyses the pornographic subgenre monster porn. It considers animated pornographic monsters as vital revelatory symbols in which significant anxieties and discourses around contemporary male sexuality can be read. This article relates monster porn to recent media controversies concerning men such as Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, figures consistently understood as “monsters” and considers how the metaphorical potency of porno…
Sex tracking apps and sexual self-care
‘To-Do List: Masturbate’ reads one of the Instagram posts for the fashionable, new Lioness vibrator and tracking app. Lioness is just one of the most publicised of a spate of sex tracking apps principally aimed at women that have emerged over the past 5 years, which asks users to monitor their sexual interactions, and which also offers medical and holistic advice on how to improve one’s sex life. This article focuses on how the value of this tech…
Sex tech, sexual data and materiality
In its consummate materiality, the sexual body is vital to the current discourse in digital health studies, disability studies and critical, feminist and postcolonial data studies, and broader theoretical trends in new materialism that insist on the embodied status of data production. This sexual body is a vital element in understanding the materiality at the heart of data production. This article explores how datafication becomes inscribed into …
Susceptibility and Resilience, a Fig Tree and a Scream
Analyzing two key figures in Elif Shafak’s novel The Island of Missing Trees—a schoolgirl’s scream and a narrating fig tree—this essay analyzes the intersection between susceptibility and resilience, particularly as these terms are developed in psychology, trauma studies, and ecology. I argue that the novel’s resonant scream critiques the discourse of psychological resilience on multiple counts: its inadequacy as a response to complex trauma, its…
Lantite’s impact on teacher diversity: Unintended consequences of testing pre-service teachers
Australian schools are diverse, and support students from a wide range of racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, as well as students with disability. Ironically, efforts to ensure equally diverse teacher workforces have been ineffective. Attempts to improve broader representation in teachers have been hampered by a homogenous approach to teacher recruitment and education. In 2016, Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (L…
Domination and the Arts of Digital Resistance in Social Media Creator Labor
This article conducts a collaborative qualitative thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with social media content creators ( N = 53) based in and/or originated from the United Kingdom. It aims to better understand how creators within one peripheral region in Northern England express their labor experiences as both practices of domination and e-resistance. The article contributes an original typology of the relationships between practices of cr…
Big data on pornhub insights: Datafication and the making of a new sexual culture
Big data has been crucial to the expansion of the pornography industry and its online evolution over the past 40 years. The datafication of digital users’ desire is the economic basis of free porn platforms. These now dominate the industry and foster an easy accessibility that has made pornography so profoundly culturally influential. The Pornhub Network is well-known as the world’s largest collection of free porn sites, receiving over one hundre…
Sexual Datafication
This editorial brings together the articles on sexual datafication available in Vol. 27, Issue 7 of Sexualities
Sociology (13 works) · Art (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · History (5 works)