Dr. Carrie A. Rentschler
Group:
Co-applicant
Biography:
McGill University - Department of Integrated Studies in Education
Carrie Rentschler is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Feminist Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. She is the author of Second Wounds: Victims’ Rights and the Media in the U.S. (Duke UP, 2011), and co-editor of Girlhood Studies and the Politics of Place (Berghahn Press, 2016). Her current research examines how the media-enabled bystander is increasingly understood as a key agent of social change, the role humour plays in feminist social media responses to rape culture, how activists use media to respond to sexual violence on university campuses, and the work media infrastructures and distribution do across a range of social movement activism.
