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Assoc Prof Jess Carniel

Assoc Prof Jess Carniel
Name Jess Carniel
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Associate Professor (Humanities)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office Q203
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1050
Extension 1050
Email
Qualifications PhD Melb
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80x0y/dr-jess-carniel
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Biography

Jess Carniel is Associate Professor in Humanities in the School of Humanities and Communication. She is also Chair of the UniSQ Human Research Ethics Committee and an Executive Member of the Centre for Heritage and Culture.

Drawing upon a broad humanistic tradition, she teaches the history of ideas, ethics, international relations, and critical theory. She has previously taught into the areas of Australian Studies, Gender Studies, Sports Studies, International Studies, and History at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and Victoria University.

Located within the field of cultural studies, her research interests encompass multiculturalism, gender, and cultural representations in Australian and global society. She has published widely on gender and ethnic identities in popular culture in multicultural Australia, including literature, film, television, and sport.

Jess is Australia's preeminent scholar of the Eurovision Song Contest, focusing her research on understanding its meaning and significance for Australian audiences within a changing context of multiculturalism, globalisation, and shifting regional geopolitics. She is the author of Understanding the Eurovision Song Contest in Multicultural Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and the co-editor of Eurovision and Australia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under (with Chris Hay (UQ) Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

With her expertise in cultural studies, Jess is keen to supervise research projects that seek to understand how cultures, communities, and identities navigate contemporary society and politics in Australia and globally. This can include popular culture, local communities, and global movements and events. She is particularly interested in projects centred on ideas of soft power and cultural diplomacy.

Research Career


  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Language Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200399 )
  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200599 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified ( 169999 )
  • Other Human Society not elsewhere classified ( 449999 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470299 )
  • Other Human Society ( 449900 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Migrant Cultural Studies ( 470211 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Political Science ( 440800 )
  • Globalisation And Culture ( 470210 )
  • Multicultural ( 470212 )
  • Environment And Culture ( 470209 )
  • International Relations ( 440808 )
  • Culture ( 470208 )

Eurovision Song Contest, popular culture, multiculturalism, soft power, cultural diplomacy, Pop Culture World Politics (PCWP - IR), Australian migration and migrant cultures, globalisation, transnationalism, race and ethnicity, cultural studies, fan studies, sport (esp. soccer), Australian studies, gender studies, international relations


International Australian Studies Association, Executive Committee member
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (member)
Australian Insititute of International Affairs (member)


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

Teaching


INR1002 Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy
INR3005 Migrant Worlds: Issues in Contemporary and Historical Migration
INR3007 Global Environmental Politics
HAC1005 Building Agency
HAC1006 Global Lives and Disruption


21 Years


Chair, UniSQ Human Research Ethics Committee
Executive Member, Centre for Heritage and Culture

Supervision


  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Language Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200399 )
  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200599 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified ( 169999 )
  • Other Human Society not elsewhere classified ( 449999 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 470299 )
  • Other Human Society ( 449900 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Migrant Cultural Studies ( 470211 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Political Science ( 440800 )
  • Globalisation And Culture ( 470210 )
  • Multicultural ( 470212 )
  • Environment And Culture ( 470209 )
  • International Relations ( 440808 )
  • Culture ( 470208 )