Dr Jessica White

Research Degree Coordinator UniSA Creative

email Jessica.White2@unisa.edu.au

Research Degree Supervisor

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About me

Jessica writes in the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir. Her first novel, A Curious Intimacy (Penguin/Viking 2007) won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award, shortlistings for the Western Australia Premier's award and the Dobbie award for a first published work by an Australian woman writer, and was longlisted for the international Dublin Literary Award award. Her second novel, Entitlement, was published by Penguin/Viking in 2012. Jessica's most recent work, Hearing Maud (UWA Publishing 2019), is a hybrid memoir about deafness. It won the 2020 Michael Crouch award for debut biography, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the National Biography Award, and the People's Choice Award and Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance in the Queensland Literary Awards. Jessica's short fiction, essays and poetry have won awards and shortlistings and appeared in national and international literary journals. Jessica is also the recipient of funding and residencies from Arts Queensland, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and the IASH Environmental Humanities group at the University of Edinburgh.

Jessica's critical writing has been published in national and international journals in the fields of Australian literature, ecocriticism, nineteenth century literature, life writing and literary representations of disability. From 2016-2019 she was an Australia Research Council DECRA fellow at The University of Queensland, during which time she oversaw the creation of the Writing Disability in Australia dataset in the AustLit database to draw attention to representations of disability in Australian literature. Jessica is currently working on two books: an ecobiography about Western Australia botanist Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) and the plants that transformed her life, and a scholarly monograph on the genre of ecobiography.

Jessica is keen to supervise in the fields of either creative or critical writing, particularly Australian literature, ecocriticism, climate fiction, literature and disability, fiction, memoir and creative non-fiction.

Research

Research focus

Literary Studies
Cultural Studies
Historical Studies
Communication and Media Studies
Film, Television and Digital Media

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2021	White, J & Whitlock, G 2021, Life writing in the Anthropocene, Routledge, UK.

Chapters

Year	Output
2021	White, J 2021, ''Silence is my habitat': Judith Wright, writing, and deafness', in J Gildersleeve (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, Routledge, UK, ch. 25, pp. 243-253. 12
2021	White, J 2021, 'Edges and extremes in ecobiography: Amy Liptrot's The Outrun', in I Batzke, L Espinoza Garrido & LM Hess (eds), Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, pp. 97-121.
2021	White, J 2021, 'Shaping selves and spaces: romanticism, botany and south-west Western Australia', in S Cooke & P Denney (eds), Transcultural ecocriticism: global, romantic and decolonial perspectives, Bloomsbury, UK, ch. 9, pp. 169-187.
2019	White, J 2019, 'Gardening in the Anthropocene: Wilding, eco-memoir and biodiversity', in N Milthorpe (ed.), The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times, Lexington Books, US, ch. 5, pp. 71-86.
2019	White, J 2019, 'The Cry of the Gull (1994) by Emmanuelle Laborit', in GT Couser & SB Mintz (eds), Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and other Personal Narratives, Macmillan Reference USA, US, ch. 34, pp. 142-145.
2018	White, J 2018, ''I felt this landscape knew I was there': the lake's apprentice and ecobiography', in DL Brien & Q Eades (eds.), Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice, UWA Publishing, Australia, ch. 12, pp. 121-134.
2018	White, J 2018, 'Eco-memoir: protecting, restoring, and repairing memory and environment', in B Avieson, F Giles & S Joseph (eds), Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir, Routledge, US, ch. 9, pp. 141-156.
2017	White, J 2017, '"The inexhaustible properties of a lady's pen": the literary craft of Georgiana Molloy', in D Das & S Dasgupta (eds), Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, ch. 10, pp. 181-196.
2014	White, J 2014, 'Inscribing landscapes in Patrick White's novels', in C vanden Driesen & B Ashcroft (eds), Patrick White Centenary: The Legacy of a Prodigal Son, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, ch. 9, pp. 141-150.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2021	White, J 2021, ''The proud & haughty Rocks': gender, botany and archipelagic travel writing in Scotland', Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 309-327. 5
2020	White, J & Whitlock, G 2020, ''Desperation for life': writing death in the Anthropocene', Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 231-235. Open access
2020	White, J & Whitlock, G 2020, 'Life: writing and rights in the Anthropocene', Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 1-12. Open access 1
2020	White, J 2020, 'From the miniature to the momentous: writing lives through ecobiography', Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 13-33. Open access 1 1
2019	White, J 2019, 'Arboreal beings: reading to redress plant blindness', Australian Humanities Review, no. 65, pp. 89-106. Open access
2017	White, J 2017, ''Paper talk': testimony and forgetting in south west Western Australia', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-13. Open access
2016	White, J 2016, ''So many sparks of fire': Dorothy Cottrell, modernism and mobility', Queensland Review, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 164-177. Open access
2015	White, J 2015, ''I actually hear you think of me': voices, mediums and deafness in the writing of Rosa Praed', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-12. Open access
2015	White, J 2015, 'Georgiana Molloy, botanical networks and naming in 19th century Western Australia', Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, vol. 5, pp. 1-10. Open access
2014	White, J 2014, 'Fluid worlds: reflecting climate change in The Swan Book and The Sunlit Zone', Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 142-163.
2014	White, J 2014, 'Ghostliness and un/belonging as a hard-of-hearing writer', New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 109-118.
2013	White, J 2013, ''Since my dear boy's death': grief, botany and gender in 19th Century Western Australia', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1-12.
2013	White, J 2013, 'The Tasmanian papers, from the miniature to the momentous: on Georgiana Molloy and the craft of collecting', Island, no. 135, pp. 34-39.
2010	White, J 2010, '"The one absolutely unselfish love": spiritualism and the collaborative writing of Rosa Praed and Nancy Harward', Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 111-130.
2010	White, J 2010, 'Body language', M/C Journal, vol. 13, no. 3. Open access

Non Traditional Outputs

Year	Output
2020	White, J 2020, How deafness shaped my love of music, Kill Your Darlings, Kill Your Darlings.
2019	White, J 2019, Hearing Maud, University of Western Australia Press.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Member Association for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter)	2021
Member International Association for the Study of Australia	2021
Newsletter Editor Association for the Study of Environment, Literature and Culture	2021
Peer Reviewer Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council	2021
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2020
Member Association for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter)	2020
Member International Association for the Study of Australia	2020
Michael Crouch Award for Debut Work of Biography State Library, New South Wales	2020
Newsletter Editor Association for the Study of Environment, Literature and Culture	2020
Peer Reviewer Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council	2020
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2019
Keynote Lecture Poetry and Perception in the Anthropocene, University of New England	2019
Member Association for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter)	2019
Member International Association for the Study of Australia	2019
Newsletter Editor Association for the Study of Environment, Literature and Culture	2019
Peer Reviewer Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council	2019
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2018
Member Association for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter)	2018
Member International Association for the Study of Australia	2018
Peer Reviewer Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council	2018
Member International Association for the Study of Australia	2017
Peer Reviewer Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council	2017
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2016
Invited Lecture A Symposium on Australian Women Writers, State Library NSW	2016
Member International Association for the Study of Australia	2016
Peer Reviewer Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council	2016
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2015
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2014
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2013
Invited Lecture Australian and New Zealand Conference for the Education of the Deaf, Brisbane	2013
Contributing Editor Australian Women Writers Challenge	2012

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Australian Literary Magazines in the 21st Century	Current
'Coming Out' with your family: portraying LGBTQIA+ ethnic identities in young adult literature	Current
Exploring narratives of climate change: Writing through the Anthropocene	Current
The Sir Terry Pratchett Memorial Scholarship	Current
Understanding the individual in a fractured postmodern society through examination of micronations	Current
Unmasking the provocatrix: engaging the clandestine literacies of L'écriture Kinesthésique to neuroqueer creative writing research	Current
Who are the Anthropos? The Philosophical Novel as a Response to Challenges of the Anthropocene	Current

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