Victoria Grace
Position
Professor of Sociology
Appointed 1993
Qualifications
BA (English) University of Otago
MSocSc (Psychology) University of Waikato
Dip.Psych (Community Psychology) University of Waikato
PhD (Sociology) University of Canterbury
Postal address:
School of Social and Political Science
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
Background
Victoria taught Sociology at Massey University 1989-1991 and was appointed to the University of Canterbury Gender Studies programme in 1993. She joined the Sociology programme in 2007.
Undergraduate courses
- SOCI265 Psychology, Culture and Society
- SOCI366 Psychosocial Health and Subjectivity
- SOCI 373 Psychosocial Criminology
Graduate courses
- SOCI401 People and Things (2012)
- SOCI460 Psychosocial Criminology
- SOCI466 Psychoanalysis: The Subject and the Social (2012)
School Administration
Postgraduate Coordinator
Research Interests
Victoria 's publications reflect her interdisciplinary work in the fields of contemporary social and feminist theory, and psychosocial studies. Her current research involves a book Victims, Gender and Jouissance (Routledge, New York); writing on topics related to Baudrillard and psychoanalysis, and Lacanian psychoanalysis and psychosomatics; and a study on discourses of DNA as evidence in the forensic context. Her publications include a book edited with Renée Heberle Theorizing Sexual Violence (2009, Routledge, New York), Baudrillard’s Challenge – A Feminist Reading (2000, Routledge, London), and numerous articles and book chapters on research investigating the interface of social discourse and medicine. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies.
Current funded projects
Marsden-funded research with Professor Gerald Midgley and Associate Investigators Johanna Veth and Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, (Institute for Environmental Science and Research). Meanings of evidence: Understandings of DNA in the forensic context.
Publications
Please see Victoria's UC SPARK Profile for a full list of publications