'On Butler & Butler: Liveability, vulnerability and non-violence'

Denison University’s Laura C. Harris Series welcomes Cristina Masters presenting a lecture, “On Butler & Butler: Liveability, vulnerability and non-violence.”

Thinking with Octavia E. Butler and Judith Butler, Masters will talk about her work on feminist (non-violent) resistance to war, as well as her recent scholarship, including two new books, a co-edited volume, “Writing Saved Me: When the International Gets Personal” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and a co-authored book, “Ripping, Cutting, Stitching: Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). 

Masters is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester in the UK, prior to which she held a lectureship in the Department of Politics and a sessional lectureship in Women Studies at McMaster University in Canada. Masters completed her Doctor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada. Recently, she has been awarded a Postgraduate Diploma and Senior Fellowship in Higher Education in the UK. She is the current Section Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies (FTGS) of the International Studies Association (ISA), and the co-editor of the book series, “Creative Interventions in Global Politics,” with Rowman & Littlefield. 

Masters teaches on the coloniality of gender, war and militarism, and critical approaches to global politics and security studies. She is also interested in inclusive and decolonial pedagogies and is co-founder of the Inclusive Schools Project in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. 

Masters’ research focuses on making feminist sense of practices of war with special attention to the US military and the role of technology in war, and more recently practices of everyday war in the ongoing war on terror and its various and violent embodiments. Her research is also interested in feminist knowledge production and resisting dominant modes of knowing and being. She is currently working on a Routledge Companion Handbook, Gender and the Politics of Violence, with Marysia Zalewski and shine choi.