Ana Eclair

Ana Eclair (née Dragojlovic) is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University. Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne, she lectured in Gender Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and held visiting fellowships at the Gender and Postcolonial Studies program at Utrecht University and the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. She also serves as an Insight Fellow and senior research affiliate at the Contemplative Studies Centre in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences.

Eclair's research intersects feminist, queer, decolonial, and care studies, examining how structural inequalities shape everyday experiences. Her work addresses gender, violence, and power in Indonesia across time and space; affective silences, heteropatriarchy, and intergenerationality; queering memory; intergenerational hauntings; and postcolonial intimacy. Drawing on affect theory, postcolonial theory, queer theory, feminist theory, ethnography, memory studies, sexuality, and mobility, her scholarship contributes to anthropology of silence, trauma studies, and conflict transformation. Key publications include books *Tracing Silences: Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable* (2023), *Gender, Violence, Power: Indonesia Across Time and Space* (2020), and *Beyond Bali: Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy* (2016). Recent articles feature 'Songs from another land: Decolonizing memories of colonialism and the nutmeg trade' (2024), 'Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality' (2023), 'Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise' (2023), 'An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich' (2023), and 'Politics of negative affect: intergenerational hauntings, counter-archival practices and the queer memory project' (2018). With 43 publications, 322 citations, and over 7,000 reads, her work has notable impact. She contributes to projects like Decolonising Health and Wellbeing and History, Memory, and Decolonial Futures.

Professional Email: ana.eclair@unimelb.edu.au