Jessica Gildersleeve
Biographic Data
| ID | 236526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Gildersleeve |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Gildersleeve |
| SIGNATURE | GILDERSLEEVE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7694-5615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Prioritising relationship, community, and student-centered learning: A systematic literature review of trauma-informed pedagogy in higher education
A systematic literature review was conducted to identify and synthesise the current evidence base for best practice in trauma-informed pedagogy in higher education. A search was conducted using relevant terms: (a) ‘trauma-informed teaching’ or ‘trauma-informed pedagogy’, (b) ‘higher education’ or ‘college’ or ‘university’, and (c) ‘trigger warning’. Database searches, and further manual searches, yielded a total of 667 articles; of these, 17 stud…
Strategies of Health-Focused Narratives to Develop Coping and Growth for Young People: A Thematic Analysis of the Literature
While there are many approaches in the use of narratives for children and young people as symbolic forms of real-life education, this article specifically investigates the use of narratives as a public health communication and intervention strategy for young people. This strategy foregrounds imaginative stories based on health education messaging that are told from patient perspectives. Through a thematic analysis of 57 research articles, the art…
Elizabeth Harrower and contemporary modernism: Trauma, dead letters, and the legacy of Elizabeth Bowen
In the decades following the Second World War in Australia, Elizabeth Harrower was a well-known literary figure. Her first four novels – Down in the City (1957), The Long Prospect (1958), The Catherine Wheel (1960), and The Watch Tower (1966) – were well received, and Harrower was a part of the most prominent literary circles in the nation at the time. In the early 1970s, however, Harrower suddenly withdrew from public life, canceling the imminen…
Traumatisation, reflection, and recovery: Teaching about trauma and students’ reflexive engagement with sensitive content
Recent research in trauma-informed pedagogy recommends that tertiary educators consider the risks and benefits of teaching sensitive material and approach the design and delivery of such content with purpose and caution. Engagement with traumatic material can have negative impacts on students’ wellbeing. Tertiary students report high rates of trauma exposure, which negatively impacts their social, emotional, and academic functioning. Education is…
The Strategies of Picture Books as a Mode of Health Communication for Young Children with Coeliac Disease
Background/Objectives: Coeliac disease, a chronic and lifelong health condition, is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. However, it is also one of the most under-recognised conditions, and emotionally and cognitively appropriate materials are especially lacking for young children and their families who are coping with this disease. Effective health communication is essential for educating and supporting children living with coeliac diseas…
Comentoring, collaboration, and community: Feminist approaches within an australian university
McGuire and Reger propose “comentoring” as a feminist innovative challenge to traditional, hierarchical models of mentoring. This commentary reflects on experiences of implementing comentoring among a group of interdisciplinary researchers at a regional Australian university. It emphasises ways personal alignments (development of community), democratic approaches to research, and multiway mentoring practices have been integral to the group's acad…
Pulling the Trigger: A Systematic Literature Review of Trigger Warnings as a Strategy for Reducing Traumatization in Higher Education
In the academic context, trigger warnings can be defined as explicit statements that alert a group of learners that certain content explored or discussed in a learning environment may contain potentially distressing material. Extant research highlights a relationship between traumatization and trigger warnings; however, the extent to which trigger warnings constitute a method of best practice for reducing traumatization in higher education has no…
A trans agent of social change in incarceration: A psychobiographical study of Natasha Keating
OBJECTIVES: This psychobiography focuses on the advocacy work of Natasha Keating, a trans woman incarcerated in two male prisons in Australia between 2000 and 2007. Incarcerated trans women are a vulnerable group who experience high levels of victimization and discrimination. However, Natasha advocated for her rights while incarcerated and this advocacy contributed to substantial changes in the carceral system. This psychobiography uses psycholog…
Queer disorientations in Only the Brave , Head On , and Blessed
In this article, we explore the orientation of queer bodies to the city – and to Lisa French’s (2013) motif of ‘looking from the largely industrialised west at the city’ in particular – in three films directed by Ana Kokkinos: Only the Brave (1994), Head On (1998), and Blessed (2009). In doing so, we take up Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenological approach to focus on Alex (played by Elena Mandalis) in Only the Brave; Ari (played by Alex Dimitriades)…
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “Don’t Be a Queen and You Won’t Be Arrested”
Most incarceration settings around the world are governed by strong cisnormative policies, architectures, and social expectations that segregate according to a person's legal gender (i.e. male or female). This paper draws on the lived experiences of 24 formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the U.S. to elucidate the way in which the prison functions according to Lucas Crawford's theory of trans architecture, alongside Jacques Derrida'…
Barracuda ’s Freak Bodies and Elite Swimming in Australia
This article considers the way in which elite swimming in Australia constitutes a system of identity to frame the privileging of heterosexuality, able-bodiedness and hypermasculinity in Christos Tsiolkas’s novel Barracuda (2013) and its television adaptation (2016). It argues that the two versions of the story offer very different sporting narratives: a migrant, working-class, gay body in the novel, the complexity of which is never fully realised…
Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia—The Outsider Artist
Christos Tsiolkas is regularly acknowledged as one of the most important writers working in Australia—indeed, the world—today. However, his proclivity for the public essay (in venues such as The Monthly), as well as his willingness to speak out on important social and political issues (such as refugees and marriage equality), casts him not only as an important writer, but also as a critical public figure in contemporary Australia. This collection…
Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States
Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as "vulnerable populations" due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by s…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman's Letters of Complaint and Self-Advocacy
This case study provides a critical discourse analysis of 121 letters of complaint and self-advocacy authored by Natasha Keating, a trans woman incarcerated in two Australian male correctional facilities from 2000 to 2007. During her incarceration, Natasha experienced victimization, misgendering, microaggression, and institutional discrimination. Despite this, Natasha embodied and "fought" against the injustices she experienced, whilst seeking to…
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature b…
This book belongs to: Trauma, (Bio)Degradation, and the Law in Visual and Narrative Diaries
Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), Nan Goldin’s photo diary The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), and Tracey Emin’s intimate art installations My Bed (1998) and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (1995) complicate the genres of life writing and confessional art. These artistic narratives both degrade and are responsible to “truth” as a means of bearing witness to trauma
Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things
This collection examines Bowen’s contribution to and place in twentieth-century literature through a re-evaluation of the ways her work can be seen as textually, politically, and theoretically ‘new’ by focusing on her engagements with processes of theory and thought, and the frequent attachment of these to ‘things.’ It presents new scholarship on Bowen’s inventiveness and uniqueness of style and fresh readings of her place in twentieth-century li…
Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things
He is telling us fairy tales’: Parental anxiety and wartime childhood in Life is Beautiful , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Fairy Tales from Auschwitz
This essay explores the stories and lies told to children during the Holocaust, and how these operate as forms of preparation and protection within and outside the narrative. In Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful (1997) and Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) parents seek to protect children from the knowledge of war, but this prevents anxiety-preparation. In contrast, the historical document Fairy Tales from Auschwitz does not d…
Anxious Affinities: Gender and Déréliction in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Forties Novels
Women’s writing of the 1940s frequently expresses anxiety—about war, about children, about work, about independence, about social rights—to the extent that it adopts this as a formal mode. Rosamond Lehmann’s short stories, The Gypsy’s Baby (1946), for example, convey the angst of the wartime parent for the wartime child in their depiction of the mother as sole carer in a dangerous environment. Likewise, Elizabeth Bowen’s novel, The Heat of the Da…
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen's writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowen's work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowen's writing complicates existing deconstructive and psy…
Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing 'a New Alphabet of Moss and Water'
The cultural association of Queensland with a condition of imagination or unreality has a strong history. Queensland has always ‘retained much of its quality as an abstraction, an idea’, asserts Thea Astley in her famous essay on the state's identity (Astley 1976: 263). In one of the most quoted descriptions of Queensland's literary representation, Pat Buckridge draws attention to its ‘othering’, suggesting that Queensland possesses ‘a different …
Jean Rhys’s Tropographies: Unmappable Identity and the Tropical Landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and Selected Short Fiction
This essay seeks to trouble the traditional understanding of Jean Rhys’s ‘homelessness’ through a re-examination of the way in which the uncertain identities of her fiction are tied to their geographical settings. This works towards a reading of Rhys’s narratives as ‘literature of the tropics,’ describing not only the landscape within which and from which so many of them operate, but a literature of the unrecognised, the unmapped. In this essay I…
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “Don’t Be a Queen and You Won’t Be Arrested”
Most incarceration settings around the world are governed by strong cisnormative policies, architectures, and social expectations that segregate according to a person's legal gender (i.e. male or female). This paper draws on the lived experiences of 24 formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the U.S. to elucidate the way in which the prison functions according to Lucas Crawford's theory of trans architecture, alongside Jacques Derrida'…
Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States
Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as "vulnerable populations" due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by s…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman's Letters of Complaint and Self-Advocacy
This case study provides a critical discourse analysis of 121 letters of complaint and self-advocacy authored by Natasha Keating, a trans woman incarcerated in two Australian male correctional facilities from 2000 to 2007. During her incarceration, Natasha experienced victimization, misgendering, microaggression, and institutional discrimination. Despite this, Natasha embodied and "fought" against the injustices she experienced, whilst seeking to…
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen's writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowen's work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowen's writing complicates existing deconstructive and psy…
He is telling us fairy tales’: Parental anxiety and wartime childhood in Life is Beautiful , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Fairy Tales from Auschwitz
This essay explores the stories and lies told to children during the Holocaust, and how these operate as forms of preparation and protection within and outside the narrative. In Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful (1997) and Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) parents seek to protect children from the knowledge of war, but this prevents anxiety-preparation. In contrast, the historical document Fairy Tales from Auschwitz does not d…
Comentoring, collaboration, and community: Feminist approaches within an australian university
McGuire and Reger propose “comentoring” as a feminist innovative challenge to traditional, hierarchical models of mentoring. This commentary reflects on experiences of implementing comentoring among a group of interdisciplinary researchers at a regional Australian university. It emphasises ways personal alignments (development of community), democratic approaches to research, and multiway mentoring practices have been integral to the group's acad…
Jean Rhys’s Tropographies: Unmappable Identity and the Tropical Landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and Selected Short Fiction
This essay seeks to trouble the traditional understanding of Jean Rhys’s ‘homelessness’ through a re-examination of the way in which the uncertain identities of her fiction are tied to their geographical settings. This works towards a reading of Rhys’s narratives as ‘literature of the tropics,’ describing not only the landscape within which and from which so many of them operate, but a literature of the unrecognised, the unmapped. In this essay I…
Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing 'a New Alphabet of Moss and Water'
The cultural association of Queensland with a condition of imagination or unreality has a strong history. Queensland has always ‘retained much of its quality as an abstraction, an idea’, asserts Thea Astley in her famous essay on the state's identity (Astley 1976: 263). In one of the most quoted descriptions of Queensland's literary representation, Pat Buckridge draws attention to its ‘othering’, suggesting that Queensland possesses ‘a different …
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival
Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma analyses the treatment of memory and the past in Bowen's writing through the lens of trauma theory. It draws on the theories of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, to propose that Bowen's work is best understood through the psychological, narratological, and linguistic effects of trauma in her fiction. Bowen's writing complicates existing deconstructive and psy…
Anxious Affinities: Gender and Déréliction in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Forties Novels
Women’s writing of the 1940s frequently expresses anxiety—about war, about children, about work, about independence, about social rights—to the extent that it adopts this as a formal mode. Rosamond Lehmann’s short stories, The Gypsy’s Baby (1946), for example, convey the angst of the wartime parent for the wartime child in their depiction of the mother as sole carer in a dangerous environment. Likewise, Elizabeth Bowen’s novel, The Heat of the Da…
He is telling us fairy tales’: Parental anxiety and wartime childhood in Life is Beautiful , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Fairy Tales from Auschwitz
This essay explores the stories and lies told to children during the Holocaust, and how these operate as forms of preparation and protection within and outside the narrative. In Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful (1997) and Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) parents seek to protect children from the knowledge of war, but this prevents anxiety-preparation. In contrast, the historical document Fairy Tales from Auschwitz does not d…
Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things
This collection examines Bowen’s contribution to and place in twentieth-century literature through a re-evaluation of the ways her work can be seen as textually, politically, and theoretically ‘new’ by focusing on her engagements with processes of theory and thought, and the frequent attachment of these to ‘things.’ It presents new scholarship on Bowen’s inventiveness and uniqueness of style and fresh readings of her place in twentieth-century li…
Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things
The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature b…
This book belongs to: Trauma, (Bio)Degradation, and the Law in Visual and Narrative Diaries
Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002), Nan Goldin’s photo diary The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), and Tracey Emin’s intimate art installations My Bed (1998) and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (1995) complicate the genres of life writing and confessional art. These artistic narratives both degrade and are responsible to “truth” as a means of bearing witness to trauma
Queer disorientations in Only the Brave , Head On , and Blessed
In this article, we explore the orientation of queer bodies to the city – and to Lisa French’s (2013) motif of ‘looking from the largely industrialised west at the city’ in particular – in three films directed by Ana Kokkinos: Only the Brave (1994), Head On (1998), and Blessed (2009). In doing so, we take up Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenological approach to focus on Alex (played by Elena Mandalis) in Only the Brave; Ari (played by Alex Dimitriades)…
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “Don’t Be a Queen and You Won’t Be Arrested”
Most incarceration settings around the world are governed by strong cisnormative policies, architectures, and social expectations that segregate according to a person's legal gender (i.e. male or female). This paper draws on the lived experiences of 24 formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the U.S. to elucidate the way in which the prison functions according to Lucas Crawford's theory of trans architecture, alongside Jacques Derrida'…
Barracuda ’s Freak Bodies and Elite Swimming in Australia
This article considers the way in which elite swimming in Australia constitutes a system of identity to frame the privileging of heterosexuality, able-bodiedness and hypermasculinity in Christos Tsiolkas’s novel Barracuda (2013) and its television adaptation (2016). It argues that the two versions of the story offer very different sporting narratives: a migrant, working-class, gay body in the novel, the complexity of which is never fully realised…
Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia—The Outsider Artist
Christos Tsiolkas is regularly acknowledged as one of the most important writers working in Australia—indeed, the world—today. However, his proclivity for the public essay (in venues such as The Monthly), as well as his willingness to speak out on important social and political issues (such as refugees and marriage equality), casts him not only as an important writer, but also as a critical public figure in contemporary Australia. This collection…
Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States
Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as "vulnerable populations" due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by s…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman's Letters of Complaint and Self-Advocacy
This case study provides a critical discourse analysis of 121 letters of complaint and self-advocacy authored by Natasha Keating, a trans woman incarcerated in two Australian male correctional facilities from 2000 to 2007. During her incarceration, Natasha experienced victimization, misgendering, microaggression, and institutional discrimination. Despite this, Natasha embodied and "fought" against the injustices she experienced, whilst seeking to…
Pulling the Trigger: A Systematic Literature Review of Trigger Warnings as a Strategy for Reducing Traumatization in Higher Education
In the academic context, trigger warnings can be defined as explicit statements that alert a group of learners that certain content explored or discussed in a learning environment may contain potentially distressing material. Extant research highlights a relationship between traumatization and trigger warnings; however, the extent to which trigger warnings constitute a method of best practice for reducing traumatization in higher education has no…
A trans agent of social change in incarceration: A psychobiographical study of Natasha Keating
OBJECTIVES: This psychobiography focuses on the advocacy work of Natasha Keating, a trans woman incarcerated in two male prisons in Australia between 2000 and 2007. Incarcerated trans women are a vulnerable group who experience high levels of victimization and discrimination. However, Natasha advocated for her rights while incarcerated and this advocacy contributed to substantial changes in the carceral system. This psychobiography uses psycholog…
Elizabeth Harrower and contemporary modernism: Trauma, dead letters, and the legacy of Elizabeth Bowen
In the decades following the Second World War in Australia, Elizabeth Harrower was a well-known literary figure. Her first four novels – Down in the City (1957), The Long Prospect (1958), The Catherine Wheel (1960), and The Watch Tower (1966) – were well received, and Harrower was a part of the most prominent literary circles in the nation at the time. In the early 1970s, however, Harrower suddenly withdrew from public life, canceling the imminen…
Traumatisation, reflection, and recovery: Teaching about trauma and students’ reflexive engagement with sensitive content
Recent research in trauma-informed pedagogy recommends that tertiary educators consider the risks and benefits of teaching sensitive material and approach the design and delivery of such content with purpose and caution. Engagement with traumatic material can have negative impacts on students’ wellbeing. Tertiary students report high rates of trauma exposure, which negatively impacts their social, emotional, and academic functioning. Education is…
The Strategies of Picture Books as a Mode of Health Communication for Young Children with Coeliac Disease
Background/Objectives: Coeliac disease, a chronic and lifelong health condition, is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. However, it is also one of the most under-recognised conditions, and emotionally and cognitively appropriate materials are especially lacking for young children and their families who are coping with this disease. Effective health communication is essential for educating and supporting children living with coeliac diseas…
Comentoring, collaboration, and community: Feminist approaches within an australian university
McGuire and Reger propose “comentoring” as a feminist innovative challenge to traditional, hierarchical models of mentoring. This commentary reflects on experiences of implementing comentoring among a group of interdisciplinary researchers at a regional Australian university. It emphasises ways personal alignments (development of community), democratic approaches to research, and multiway mentoring practices have been integral to the group's acad…
Prioritising relationship, community, and student-centered learning: A systematic literature review of trauma-informed pedagogy in higher education
A systematic literature review was conducted to identify and synthesise the current evidence base for best practice in trauma-informed pedagogy in higher education. A search was conducted using relevant terms: (a) ‘trauma-informed teaching’ or ‘trauma-informed pedagogy’, (b) ‘higher education’ or ‘college’ or ‘university’, and (c) ‘trigger warning’. Database searches, and further manual searches, yielded a total of 667 articles; of these, 17 stud…
Strategies of Health-Focused Narratives to Develop Coping and Growth for Young People: A Thematic Analysis of the Literature
While there are many approaches in the use of narratives for children and young people as symbolic forms of real-life education, this article specifically investigates the use of narratives as a public health communication and intervention strategy for young people. This strategy foregrounds imaginative stories based on health education messaging that are told from patient perspectives. Through a thematic analysis of 57 research articles, the art…
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