Paula Hollstein Barria

Teaching Fellow

Intersections of Law with: Abuse; Gender & Class; Phenomenology; Intimacy and Personal Narratives; Psychoanalysis; Trauma

School of Law
S2.01, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Office Hours (Term 1, 2025/26): Mondays at 10:00 and Tuesdays at 15:00. Please email me in advance to confirm room availability and ensure no scheduling conflicts with other students.

Bio

Paula Hollstein Barria is a PhD in Law from the University of Warwick. During her doctoral research, she developed a phenomenological and psycho-social account of domestic abuse from the victim-survivor's perspective. By drawing on personal narratives, autoethnographic accounts, and psychoanalytical insights, Paula uncovered aspects of the abusive experience neglected by law, such as the victim's implication and mixed feelings. One of her main goals is to shed new light on the primary harm of this phenomenon: the traumatic feeling of "self-betrayal."

Paula holds an LLB from the University of Chile, an MSc in philosophy from LSE and an LLM in human rights from UCL. Having worked in economic regulatory bodies of the Chilean State, her current academic interests lie in the intersections of the law with abuse; gender & class; phenomenology; intimacy and personal narratives; psychoanalysis; trauma.

Teaching Conferences

(September 2024) ‘Breaking the Silence: Addressing Abuse & Inequalities in Feminist Circles,’ ATgender Conference, Gender Studies and The Precarious Labour of Making a Difference, Utrecht, Netherlands
(April 2024) ‘Unveiling Cynicism in the Chilean Elite, When Gender and Class Collapse, Eroding the Experiences of Abuse’ Rethinking Latin America: New Journeys Across Film and Literature, University of Warwick
(April 2024) ‘The Coercive and Controlling Offence in the UK, as interpreted by Coventry Haven. There is ‘Resonance’ But Not Under the Criminal Approach’ Social science approaches to crime, harm and (in)justice, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
(March 2024) ‘Fragmentation. An Autoethnographic and Multivocal Account of Domestic Abuse’ International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative Autoethnography
(February 2024) Discussant of the book ‘Feminism, Violence Against Women and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador’ written by Dr Silvana Tapia. Centre for the Study of Women and Gender and the Criminal Justice Centre, University of Warwick
(May 2023) ‘Fragmentation. An Autoethnographic and Multivocal Account of Domestic Abuse.’ Criminal Justice: Issues at the Forefront of Society, Criminal Justice Centre, University of Warwick
(June 2022) ‘The Experience of Self-Betrayal, A Missing Element in Domestic Abuse Understandings.’ Warwick Law School Conference, University of Warwick.
(February 2020) ‘Representing the Domestic Violence Problem. A Survey of Different Conceptual Approaches.’ New Frontiers in Criminal Justice, University of Warwick
(September 2019) ‘Analysis of Discourses That Link Feminism and The Environment in Chile. ‘What should Chile commit to global climate change? Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

PRESENTATIONS AT WORKSHOPS - COMPETITIVE BASIS

Sixth Annual Methodology Masterclass. 2-days workshop, funded by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford (20 students), Sept 2023
Disrupting the (Gendered) Form. 2-days workshop, funded by the Centre of Gender and Law at Durham University, June 2022