Emma Quilty is a social anthropologist who works in the field of feminist science and technology studies. Her research investigates the shifting practices of algorithmic harm and gender violence, and how they are facilitated by digital infrastructures and emerging systems like artificial intelligence. She is currently a research fellow in the ARC Centre for Excellence for The Elimination of Violence Against Women based at Monash University.
Her research has helped establish new ways of understanding how technologies shape gendered experiences of power, violence and inequality, extending analysis beyond individual technologies to the broader social, cultural and political systems in which they operate. By foregrounding the lived experiences of people affected by digital technologies, Quilty’s work has reshaped our understanding of how algorithmic systems reproduce inequality and how more just technological futures might be imagined.
She is published in journals such as AI & Society, Violence Against Women and Surveillance & Society. In addition to publishing in a academic journals, she also regularly writes and speaks about gender and technology for media outlets such as The Conversation, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, the ABC, and elsewhere.
Her book Witch Power (Polity) offers a queer, feminist materialist analysis of contemporary witchcraft. It considers the return of the witch as a rational, radical rejection of the failed gods of the 21st century: neoliberalism, secular rationalism, and the colonial state.
