Meredith Nash is a PhD candidate in the Gender Studies Department at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She completed Master of Arts (Gender Studies and Development) at the University of Melbourne and B.S. Psychology/Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana. Her Master’s thesis entitled, ‘Digital Deception: The Disappearance of Women Through Ultrasonography’ analyses the exposure of the pregnant belly as a site of surveillance and object of the medical gaze. Meredith’s current research focuses on the nature of public pregnancy, feminine embodiment, women’s narratives, and the commodification of motherhood. Her publications reflect her research interests including, ‘The Fetishised Fetus: Creating ‘Life’ With Ultrasound’ and ‘Windows of the Womb: an Exploration of Ultrasonography and the Science of Medical Seeing’.

‘Windows of the Womb: an Exploration of Ultrasonography and the Science of Medical ‘Seeing’, Interventions, Interactions and Interrelations: School of Languages Postgraduate Research Papers on Language and Literature, vol. 5, 2005, 111-32.