Skip to content

Professor Jessica Gildersleeve

Professor Jessica Gildersleeve
Name Jessica Gildersleeve
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Professor (English Literature)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office Q202
Location Springfield Campus
Email
Qualifications BA Qld , BA(Hons) Qld , PhD Bristol
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80w99/prof-jessica-gildersleeve
The views expressed on staff homepages may not reflect the views of the University.

Biography

Jessica is a literary theorist and literary critic specialising in the narrativisation of trauma. She brings this expertise to the study of a range of literary and cultural contexts, including public health and pedagogical frameworks.

Research Career


  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200599 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Literary Theory ( 470514 )
  • Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Literature) ( 470502 )
  • British And Irish Literature ( 470504 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Literary Studies ( 470500 )

Public health narratives, gender/sexuality/bodies, women's writing from the nineteenth century to the present, trauma theory, Modernism, contemporary literature, postcolonial literatures, Australian literature, literature and ethics, war and violence


Fellow of the Higher Education Academy


President, Australian University Heads of English
Editor, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
Series Editor, Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing
Editorial Board, Queensland Review
Editorial Board, Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation
Editorial Board, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
Editorial Board, Affirmations: Of the Modern
Editorial Board, Elizabeth Bowen Review


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

Teaching


ENL1002 Contemporary Fiction
ENL2011 Australian Literature
ENL3000 Modernism


17 Years


Associate Head of School (Research), School of Humanities and Communication
Cluster Leader (Storied Landscapes), Centre for Heritage and Culture
Stream-Theme Leader (Trauma, Violence, and Survival), Centre for Health Research

Supervision


  • Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200299 )
  • Literary Studies not elsewhere classified ( 200599 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Literary Theory ( 470514 )
  • Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Literature) ( 470502 )
  • British And Irish Literature ( 470504 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Literary Studies ( 470500 )