Rebecca Scott Bray
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Sesquicentenary Lecturer, Socio-Legal Studies |
Dr Rebecca Scott Bray holds a BA (Hons) from the Australian National University, a MCrim from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Criminology from the University of Melbourne.
Her areas of research expertise include medico-legal and forensic criminology, coronial law and practice and the intersections of crime, law, art and culture as they involve the dead body. Current research examines death scene and injury interpretation, forensic medical knowledge, law, art and aesthetics, criminology and the coronial jurisdiction and the cultural life of forensic archives.
Courses currently taught:
- SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies
- SLSS1002 Law as Language, Culture and Performance
- SCLG2634 Crime, Punishment and Society
Publications
Monograph
(in preparation) Forensics and Aesthetics, Routledge-Cavendish, Discourses of Law series
Refereed Articles
(2007) 'En Piel Ajena: The Work of Teresa Margolles', special issue of Law Text Culture, vol 11: 13-50.
(2006) 'Fugitive Performances of Death and Injury', Law Text Culture, Vol 10: 41-71.
(2004) 'The Hart Island Project', in Studies in Law, Politics and Society, An Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens, (eds) P. Rush and A. Kenyon, Volume 34: 179-200.
(1999) 'Suturing the Narrative Body', Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol. 13(2) September: 119-128.
Book chapters
(2008 forthcoming) ''Posthumous life: Teresa Margolles' in T. Jenkins and S. Dauncey (eds) Corpse Life: The Contemporary Preoccupation with Human Remains, Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(2007) 'Unter der Lupe: Eine 'pulp history' des forensischen lebens' in Thomas Macho and Kristin Marek (Hrsg.) Die neue Sichtbarkeit des Todes, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, pp 355-369
(2007) Von Zwielicht und Evidenz: Die Fotografien von Jeffrey Silverthorne' in Thomas Macho and Kristin Marek (Hrsg.) Die neue Sichtbarkeit des Todes, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, pp 501-516
Book and Exhibition Reviews
(2007) Book review of Katherine Biber's 'Captive Images: Race, crime, photography', Alternative Law Journal, 32(4) December: 253-254.
(2006) 'Enduring Images and the Art of Remembering: Book Review of City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 and Exhibition Review of City of Shadows: Inner city crime & mayhem 1912-1948', in Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 18(2) November: 376-382.
Offices held
Editorial Committee, Alternative Law Journal
Law Text Culture co-editor (with Derek Dalton), volume 13 2009 'Crime Scenes'
Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
Member, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand
Invited papers
2008 Speaker, Crime and Justice Research Network Seminar Series, UNSW Law School, forthcoming
2008 Workshop participant, 'The Preserved Tongue and Other Pieces’, The Question of “Waste” in the History of Medicine', 16-17 May, Warwick University, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy.
2007 Plenary Keynote Address, ‘Voir Mort’, International Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 28-30 November, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Speaker, ‘Cultural and Legal Issues Around Forensic Experiments’, Socio-Legal Research Centre Seminar Series, 23 October, Griffith Law School, Brisbane, Australia.
2006 Keynote Address, ‘En Piel Ajena: The Work of Teresa Margolles’, Annual International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia, 13-14 July, School of Law, The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law, Victoria, Australia.
2005 Speaker, 'The New Visibility of Death', Berlin, Germany. Introduced exhibition of photographs by Jeffrey Silverthorne: 'Of Twilight and Evidence: The Photographs of Jeffrey Silverthorne; Invited paper: 'Inquest: A Pulp History of Forensic and Funereal Life', 17-19 November, Humboldt University, Haus der Begegnung at Ahorn-Grieneisen.
2000 Speaker, 'Sensing Death: The Chiaroscuro of Touch in the Mortuary Photography of Sue Fox', paper presented at the One-Day Symposium held by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography/ UNSW/COFA 9 September, COFA, Sydney, NSW, Australia.