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 book Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic (Polity Books, 2025) is based on in-depth ethnographic research with contemporary witchcraft communities, and explores dynamics of gender, power, and resistance.