5-4-1 Interview with Erin Stapleton (Paradoxa)

Dr. Erin K Stapleton is a Lecturer in Arts & Communication at University of Canberra. Their research interests lie in intersections between gender and queer theory, colonialism and critical diversity studies, digital cultures, and continental philosophy. Her essays have been published in a number of edited collections, including Acephale and Autobiographical Philosophy in the 21st Century, Genre Trajectories, Teaching Gender, and True Detection, as well as in the journals Rhizomes, Overland and Third Text. Their current research projects focus on platform design that facilitates gender-based digital abuse, and tracking the distinction between 'anti-vax' and vaccine-hesitant discussion on social media. Erin’s first book The Intoxication of Destruction in Theory, Culture and Media. A Philosophy of Expenditure after Georges Bataille, was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2022. Their other works include, The Spotted Seppuku. Commodifying Suicide with Yayoi Kusama, Headless Sex: Acéphalic Anatomy as Queer Eroticism, The limits of privilege, and Screening feminisms: Approaches for teaching sex and gender in film.

Erin’s Google Scholar site is here.

Here are Erin’s five things:

The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy, 1985) Link

The Accursed Share (particularly vol. 3, on Sovereignty) (Georges Bataille) Link

The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, 2013) Link

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (Jeanette Winterson, 2011) Link

Native Tongue, (song by Mo’Ju, 2018) Link