Dr Jess Pacella

Program Director: Bachelor of Creative Industries UniSA Creative

email Jess.Pacella@unisa.edu.au

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About me

Dr Jessica Pacella is currently a Lecturer of Creative Industries, and has been teaching across cultural studies, screen studies and creative industries at UniSA for over 10 years. She is currently collaborating on a research project with Feast Feastival, commemorating 25 years of operation in 2022. She has also engaged in research projects on film festivals and contemporary employment for creative and cultural workers in Australia, and also a project on volunteer engagement with Festivals Adelaide. She completed a post-doctoral appointment in 2020 with the Research Centre Creative People, Products & Places (CP3), which assessed various Australian (state and federal) and global policy responses to COVID-19 for arts and cultural... Read more

UniSA Creative

UniSA Creative explores the creative, cultural and artistic complexities of our world, producing industry-ready professionals and conducting inspired cross-disciplinary research.

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Research

Research focus

Sociology
Communication and Media Studies
Cultural Studies
Film, Television and Digital Media
Language, Communication and Culture

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2015	George, J, Roberts, R & Pacella, J 2015, '"Whose festival?" : examining questions of participation, access and ownership in rural festivals', in A Jepson & A Clarke (eds), Exploring community festivals and events, Routledge, UK, ch. 6, pp. 79-91.
2014	Pacella, J, George, J & Roberts, R 2014, ''Taste'-ing festivals: understanding constructions of rural identity through community festivals', in A Jepson & A Clarke (eds), Exploring community festivals and events, Routledge, New York, ch. 14, pp. 187-196. 3
2014	Roberts, R, George, J & Pacella, J 2014, 'There's not a hot-dog van in sight : constructing ruralities through South Australian regional festivals', in K Dashper (ed.), Rural tourism : an international perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, pp. 79-95. 3

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Pacella, J & Richards, S 2024, 'A queer feast of memories: using archives in festival research', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, online, pp. 1-17. Open access
2022	Richards, S & Pacella, J 2022, ''We need to keep making stuff, regardless of what the situation is': creativity and the film festival sector during COVID-19', Arts and the Market, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 20-32. 7 5
2021	Pacella, J, Luckman, S & O'Connor, J 2021, 'Fire, pestilence and the extractive economy: cultural policy after cultural policy', Cultural Trends, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 40-51. Open access 27 22 27
2011	George, J, Pacella, J & Roberts, R 2011, 'Editor's introduction: shifting cultures', Social Alternatives, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 3-4.
2011	Pacella, J 2011, 'Crikey, it's commodified!: an investigation into ANZAC Day: the next Nike?', Social Alternatives, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 26-29.
2009	Luckman, S & Pacella, J 2009, 'GIS mapping technologies and media discourse analysis: feedback from creative industries and social inequality project trials', International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 101-114. Open access

Non Traditional Outputs

Year	Output
2023	Richards, S & Pacella, J 2023, Feast festival queer film program, Queer film festival, South Australia, Australia, 7-11 November 2023.

Reports

Year	Output
2021	Pacella, J, Luckman, S & O'Connor, J 2021, CP3 Working Paper 1: Keeping creative: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 emergency on the art and cultural sector & responses to it by governments, cultural agencies and the sector, University of South Australia, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

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Collaborations

Organisation	Country
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Member Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	2022
Member South Australian Creative Industries Think Tank	2022
Member Cultural Studies Association	2022
Member Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	2021
Member South Australian Creative Industries Think Tank	2021
Member Cultural Studies Association	2021
Member Cultural Studies Association	2020
Member Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	2020
Member South Australian Creative Industries Think Tank	2020
Member Cultural Studies Association	2019
Member Cultural Studies Association	2018
Member Cultural Studies Association	2017
Member Cultural Studies Association	2016
Member Cultural Studies Association	2015

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