STAFF PROFILE
Dr Rebecca Hill
Rebecca Hill is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication.
Research
Rebecca conducts research in feminist theory, decolonial theory, continental philosophy and Ancient Greek philosophy and literature.
Her first book, The Interval: Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle and Bergson, was published by Fordham in 2012. The monograph focuses on the concepts of difference and sexual difference through close readings of Luce Irigaray's thinking of the interval, Henri Bergson's postulation of duration and Aristotle's theory of place. In an extension of Irigaray's project, The Interval shows the wide reaching implications of the concept of the interval for the theorisation of inter-subjectivity and posthuman concepts of becoming and difference.
Rebecca's current book project engages with concepts of time, difference and relation.
Rebecca is a founding convenor the Philosophies of Difference Group (PoD) and she is a member of the Communication, Politics and Culture Research Group in the School of Media and Communication.
Teaching
Rebecca teaches in the Literary Studies Contextual Major in the School of Media and Communication.
Academic Advisor
Rebecca is an academic advisor in the Creative Writing Program in the School of Media and Communication.
PhD, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Critical Theory, Monash University
Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Learning and Teaching, RMIT University.
- Hill, R. (2023). Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie In: What Is Sexual Difference? Thinking with Irigaray, Columbia University Press, New York, United States
- Hill, R. (2022). Intuition and Feeling: Reading Bergson with Neidjie and Country In: Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, 36, 222 - 243
- Hill, R. (2022). Chauka's Voice: Resistance in the Art of Behrouz Boochani In: Overland Melbourne, Australia
- Hill, R. (2022). From the Exchange of Women to Sexual Difference In: Sydney Review of Books Penrith, NSW, Australia
- Hill, R. (2020). Between Her and Her: Place and Relations between Women in Irigaray and Wright In: Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray, SUNY Press, Albany, United States
- Hill, R. (2019). Immanent maternal: figures of time in Aristotle, Bergson and Irigaray In: Antiquities Beyond Humanism, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
- Hill, R. (2017). At least two: the tendencies of sexual difference In: Australian Feminist Law Journal, 43, 25 - 40
- Grosz, E.,Hill, R. (2017). Onto-Ethics and Difference: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz In: Australian Feminist Law Journal, 43, 5 - 14
- Hill, R. (2016). Place, Interval: Irigaray and Ronell In: Engaging the World: Thinking after Irigaray, SUNY Press, Albany, New York, United States
- Hill, R. (2016). The multiple readings of Irigaray's concept of sexual difference In: Philosophy Compass, 11, 390 - 401
Research supervision
Rebecca supervises students undertaking PhDs and Masters theses and projects. She also supervises students in the Honours program of the Bachelor of Communication.
Supervisor Interests
Feminist theory, especially sexual difference. Decolonial Theory and Indigenous Studies. Difference (Irigaray, Derrida, Deleuze, Bergson, Simondon). Critical race theory and whiteness studies. Queer theory. Literary Modernisms. Ancient Greek philosophy and literature.
6 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions