Jessica Wilkinson

Associate Professor Jessica Wilkinson

Associate Professor

Details

  • College: School of Media & Communication
  • Department: School - Media & Communication
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • jessica.wilkinson@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Jessica is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication.

Jessica is a writer, critic, scholar and editor whose research interests include: poetry and poetics; contemporary poetry; poetic biography; 'nonfiction poetry'; experimental/radical writing; literary theory. She is the founding and Managing Editor of 'Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry' (2011-present) and of the Rabbit Poets Series. In her own poetry and with Rabbit, Jessica is interested in pushing boundaries of form, and in exploring what poetry can do in collision with nonfiction writing. She is also passionate about giving opportunities to new Australian writers, and in the transnational potential of literary publishing. Jessica holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.

Jessica's poems have appeared in books, newspapers, and international anthologies and journals. She is the author of three books of poetry: 'marionette: a biography of miss marion davies' (Vagabond, 2012), 'Suite for Percy Grainger' (Vagabond, 2014) and 'Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine' (Vagabond, 2019). In 2017, she received an RMIT Research Award recognising the impact she has made to the field of 'nonfiction poetry'. She was a Creative Australia 2023 Keesing Studio (Paris) Fellow.

Research fields

  • 360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
  • 3602 Creative and professional writing
  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 470514 Literary theory

Supervisor projects

  • Up\\rooted: Drifting With and Moving Inward to Poetics of Vietnamese Utterances (A Multilingual Project)
  • 5 Sep 2024
  • The poetics of attention: local spaces and the maternal everyday.
  • 28 Jun 2024
  • Towards Amphibious Aesthetics: Exploring Narrative Through Hybrid Writing
  • 4 Jun 2024
  • Essaying the ramble and fluid convergences in my teaching artist practice
  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Creative writing and publishing: play, experiments and new directions
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • Ecstatic Essaying
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • My Archive Fever
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • Decolonising practice and positionality for publication: folklore, emigration and alienation through speculative fiction/non-fiction methodology.
  • 3 Jan 2023
  • The Doubting Memoir & Doubt and Craft in Creative Writing
  • 1 Jan 2023
  • Dreaming Connections in Creative Writing Practice: reverie brought to the page
  • 1 Jan 2023
  • Practice Research Enquiry into Poetry as Performance
  • 14 Jul 2021
  • The Code of Things: Biographical Poetry in Print and Programmable Media
  • 20 Aug 2020
  • 'Only in the particular': An Informational Poetics for Precision Medicine
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Persist: An Affective, Autoethnographic Feminist Creative Practice Model
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • “George Sand (and Me)” A Poetic Auto/biography and Dissertation
  • 11 Jul 2019
  • Emotional Information
  • 26 Jun 2019
  • Self-Portrait: A Performance Autoethnography of Un-faithing
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • Always Already Translated: A Singapore Poet in Translation
  • 13 Aug 2018
  • A Body at the Edge of Language: writing anorexia, bulimia and recovering
  • 22 Mar 2018
  • A White Woman Stories to Decolonise (Herself). Creative meanderings through the cultural abyss.
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • Writing the Multiple: From Chapalang to Confluence
  • 1 Aug 2016
  • Moxie: Vintage Feminism as Poetic Method
  • 2 Mar 2015
  • TWITCH GOTHIC: An Exploration of the Female Protagonist in Contemporary Australian Gothic Short Fiction
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Essaying Bodies, Bodying Essays: Write in the Middle is a Creative-Critical Research Practice
  • 3 Mar 2014
  • Not Fraying at the Edges: women, ageing and creativity. 
  • 1 Aug 2013

Teaching interests

Contemporary poetry; Poetry and Poetics; Avant-garde and Experimental writing; myth, Contemporary literature; Literary theory

Research interests

Creative Writing, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetics, 'Nonfiction Poetry', Life Writing
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