Dr Rebekah Pryor is the Doctor of Professional Practice Director in the University of Divinity’s School of Graduate Research.
Rebekah is an artist and scholar whose interdisciplinary research focuses on embodiment (particularly in terms of sex, gender and sexuality) and how this is experienced, constructed, represented and renegotiated in material cultures and communities of belief. Recent publications include: Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art (SCM Press, 2022); Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures, coedited with Stephen Burns (Lexington/Fortress Press, 2023); “Caring Rituals and Rituals of Care” in Care Ethics and Art, edited by Jaqueline Milner and Gretchen Combs (Routledge, 2022); Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, coedited with Kerrie Handasyde and Cathryn McKinney (Routledge, 2021); “Untitled (Holy Mysteries): Motifs of Containment, Presence, and Revelation in Liturgical Imagination” in Queering Christian Worship: Reconstructing Liturgical Theology, edited by Bryan Cones et al (Seabury Books, 2023); “Materials in Tension: Assemblage and the Art of Revelation” in Numinous Fields: Perceiving the Sacred in Nature, Landscape, and Art, edited by Samer Akkach and John Powell (Brill, 2024); and “Christ as Princess of Pop” in Seeing Christ in Australia Since 1850, edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Sean Winter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Rebekah serves on the convening committee of the Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies.
Her teaching and supervision work is in areas of feminist theology, practical theology, contemporary art and practice-based research.