Researcher biography
Dr Jessica White is the award-winning author of two novels, A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud. Her research centres around Australian literature in the fields of life writing, environmental humanities, climate fiction and disability studies. In 2018-2019, Jessica oversaw the creation of the Writing Disability in Australia dataset in the AustLit database to draw attention to representations of disability in Australian literature. She is currently writing is an ecobiography of nineteenth century botanist Georgiana Molloy, Western Australia’s first non-Indigenous female scientist.
Books
White, Jessica (2019). Hearing Maud. Crawley, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.
White, Jessica (2012). Entitlement. Melbourne VIC: Viking/Penguin.
White, Jessica (2007). A Curious Intimacy. Camberwell, Vic., Australia: Viking/Penguin.
Book Chapters
White, Jessica (2019). The Cry of the Gull (1994) by Emmanuelle Laborit. Disability experiences: memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal narratives. (pp. 142-145) edited by Thomas G. Couser and Susannah B. Mintz. Farmington Hills, MI USA: Macmillan Reference USA.
White, Jessica (2019). Gardening in the Anthropocene: Wilding, eco-memoir and biodiversity. The poetics and politics of gardening in hard times. (pp. 71-86) edited by Naomi Milthorpe. Lanham, MD USA: Lexington Books.
White, Jessica (2018). Eco-memoir: protecting, restoring, and repairing memory and environment. Mediating memory: tracing the limits of memoir. (pp. 141-156) edited by Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315107349-10
White, Jessica (2018). ‘I Felt This Landscape Knew I Was There’: The Lake’s Apprentice and Ecobiography. Offshoot: contemporary life writing methodologies and practice. (pp. 121-135) edited by Donna Lee Brien and Quinn Eades. Crawley, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Publishing.
White, Jessica (2017). ‘The inexhaustible properties of a lady’s pen’: the literary craft of Georgiana Molloy. Claiming space for Australian women's writing. (pp. 181-196) edited by Devaleena Das and Sanjukta Dasgupta. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-50400-1
White, Jessica (2014). Inscribing landscapes in Patrick White’s novels. Patrick White centenary: the legacy of a prodigal son. (pp. 141-150) edited by Cynthia vanden Driesen and Bill Ashcroft. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
White, Jessica (2009). Intimacy and Distance across the Globe: The Literary Relationship between Georgiana Molloy and Captain James Mangles. Intimate Explorations: Reading Across Disciplines. (pp. 175-183) edited by Alejandro Cervantes-Carson and Beatriz Oria. Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Journal Articles
White, Jessica and Whitlock, Gillian (2020). Life: writing and rights in the Anthropocene. Auto/Biography Studies, 35 (1), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1722376
White, Jessica (2020). From the miniature to the momentous: writing lives through ecobiography. Auto/Biography Studies, 35 (1), 13-33. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1713587
White, Jessica and Whitlock, Gillian (2020). “Desperation for Life”: writing death in the Anthropocene. Auto/Biography Studies, 35 (1), 231-235. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1722377
White, Jessica and Archer-Lean, Clare (2019). Science/literature: the interface. Australian Humanities Review (65), 65-68.
White, Jessica (2019). Arboreal beings: reading to redress plant blindness. Australian Humanities Review (65), 89-106.
White, Jessica (2019). K. and the NDIS. Westerly, 7 (Special Issue) (DisAbility), 49-58.
White, Jessica (2019). Melissa Fagan, What will be worn: a McWhirters story. Queensland Review, 26 (1), 188-190. doi: 10.1017/qre.2019.16
White, Jessica (2018). Intertwining. Sydney Review of Books
White, Jessica (2017). ‘Paper talk,’ Testimony and Forgetting in South-West Western Australia. JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2017 No. 1 (Empire/Dissent)
White, Jessica (2017). A great many capital foreign things. Southerly, 76 (2), 155-168.
White, Jessica (2016). Nadia Buick and Madeleine King (eds), Remotely fashionable: a story of subtropical style, Brisbane: the fashion archives, 2015, ISBN 9 7809 9443 2209, 177 pp., $45.00.. Queensland Review, 23 (2), 272-273. doi: 10.1017/qre.2016.35
White, Jessica (2016). Medium/Machine: the writing of Rosa Praed and Nancy Harward. Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation, 42 (1), 69-83.
White, Jessica (2016). Stargazing with Rosa Praed. Sydney Review of Books
White, Jessica (2016). Unfurling. Griffith Review, 53 (Our Sporting Life) 23164.
White, Jessica (2016). 'So many sparks of fire': Dorothy Cottrell, modernism and mobility. Queensland Review, 23 (2), 164-177. doi: 10.1017/qre.2016.27
White, Jessica (2015). Hearing Maud. Spike the Meanjin blog
White, Jessica (2015). 'Can I Do My Words?': on the poetics of deafness. Cordite Poetry Review (50)
White, Jessica (2015). Georgiana Molloy, botanical networks and naming in 19th century Western Australia. Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, 5.
White, Jessica (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, 15 (1).
White, Jessica (2014). "The Native Seeds of Augusta” Georgiana Molloy’s botanical exchanges in 19th century Western Australia. Griffith Review, 47, 215-222.
White, Jessica (2014). Fluid Worlds: Reflecting Climate Change in The Swan Book and The Sunlit Zone. Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature, 74 (1), 142-163.
White, Jessica (2014). Ghostliness and Un/Belonging as a Hard-of-Hearing Writer. New Scholar, 3 (1), 109-118.
White, Jessica (2013). From the Miniature to the Momentous: Georgiana Molloy and the craft of collecting. Island Magazine, 135, 34-39.
White, Jessica (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, 13 (2).
White, Jessica (2011). The Country of Boats. Sydney, NSW, Australia: English Association Sydney Branch.
White, Jessica (2010). Body language. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 13 (3)
White, Jessica (2010). "The one absolutely unselfish love”: spiritualism and the collaborative writing of Rosa Praed and Nancy Harward. Southerly, 70 (2), 110-123.
White, Jessica (2008). ‘I Know, but Cannot Share It': Landscape and the Emigrant. Philament, 11, 181-191.
Creative Works
White, Jessica (2016). Old Honey. Online: adda.
White, Jessica (2016). Melliodora. Australia: Review of Australian Fiction.
White, Jessica (2015). When the world shivered. Australia: Review of Australian Fiction.
White, Jessica (2014). A Mercurial Man. Hobart, TAS, Australia: Island Magazine.
White, Jessica (2012). Unearthed. Australia: Review of Australian Fiction.
White, Jessica (2010). The Sea Lovers. Hobart, Tas, Australia: Island Magazine.