Jessica White is the author of the award-winning A Curious Intimacy (Penguin 2007) and Entitlement (Penguin 2012), and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud (UWA Publishing, 2019), which won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the National Biography Award, the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance and the Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year. Jessica has received funding from the Australian Research Council, Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken residencies and fellowships in Hobart, Rome and Munich. She is currently writing an ecobiography of Western Australia’s first female scientist, 19th century botanist Georgiana Molloy.
Experience
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2021–presentSenior lecturer, University of South Australia
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2019–2021Associate lecturer, University of Queensland
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2016–2019ARC DECRA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland
Education
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2010Birkbeck, University of London, Ph.D. in Humanities and Cultural Studies
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2003University of Technology, Sydney, Master of Arts in Writing
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2000University of Wollongong, Bachelor of Creative Arts/Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
Grants and Contracts
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2020Resilience Fund - Create
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- Australia Council for the Arts
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2020Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellowship
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- Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
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2016Early Career Research Grant
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- The University of Queensland
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2016Discoverly Early Career Research Award
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- Australia Research Council
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2015New Work Grant
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- Australia Council for the Arts
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2013Individuals Fund Grant
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- Arts Queensland
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2004Sir Arthur Sims Travelling Fellowship
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- The University of Melbourne
- Website
- @ladyredjess
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