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Associate Professor Jessica Wilkinson
Jessica is a senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communication.
Jessica teaches in Literary Theory, Short Story Writing, Creative Writing: Project, Essay Project and Poetry.
Research interests
Poetry and poetics; contemporary poetry; experimental / radical writing; literary history; literary theory; modernism, post-modernism and the avant-garde.
Scholarships, grants and awards
2015 – Australia Council for the Arts project grant (AU$15,924)
2013 – City of Melbourne Arts Grant Program (AU$17,300)
2012 – CAL Cultural Fund for special issue of RABBIT: a journal for nonfiction poetry (AU$3050)
2009 – Varuna Residency Fellowship
2008 – Felix Meyer Scholarship for Creative Writing
2008 – 'Oneida' shortlisted for the PressPress Chapbook Award.
2006 – H.B. Higgins Scholarship for the Study of Poetry
Advisory boards
International Poetry Studies Institute (Canberra)
Vagabond Press (Sydney)
2012 – Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning, School of Education, RMIT University
2011 – PhD, Creative Writing, University of Melbourne, Australia
2005 – BA (Hons), Media and Communications, University of Melbourne (Majors: English and Creative Writing)
- Wilkinson, J. (2019). Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine In: Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine Sydney, Australia
- Wilkinson, J. (2018). A poet walks through an archive: processing the poetic biography In: Associations, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne, Australia
- Wilkinson, J. (2018). The Frame and the Score: Knowing a Subject Differently Through Poetic Biography In: Offshoots: Contemporary life writing methodologies and practice, UWA Publishing, Crawley, Australia
- Wilkinson, J. (2018). Nonfiction Poems 2017-2018 In: Best Australian Poems et al. Carlton, Australia et al.
- Disney, D.,Wilkinson, J.,Atherton, C. (2017). 'bending in all directions everywhere': a juddering, glimpsing, eido�longing of poets In: Westerly, 62, 121 - 133
- Wilkinson, J. (2016). Experiments in poetic biography: Feminist threads in contemporary long form poetry In: Biography, 39, 1 - 22
- Wilkinson, J.,Cassidy, B. (2016). Walking through glass: Introduction In: Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, Hunter Publishers, Santa Lucia, Australia
- Wilkinson, J. (2016). Jordie Albiston's biographical poetry: Disguising the 'I' In: Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Victoria University Press, Wellington, New Zealand
- Wilkinson, J. (2016). Jessica Wilkinson, Portfolio of Poems 2015-2016 In: Montreal Global Poetry Anthology 2015 Montreal, Canada
- Wilkinson, J. (2016). FAUNE et JEUX In: States of Poetry: Victoria Melbourne, Australia
- Poetic Portraits of Australian Elders. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts from (2019 to 2020)
- Rabbit a journal for nonfiction poetry, 2018-2019. Funded by: VicArts Grants 2018 from (2018 to 2019)
- Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry & Rabbit Poets Series 2018-2020. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects - Organisations, 2017 Round 3 from (2018 to 2020)
- Melbourne-Seoul: an intercultural poetry exchange. Funded by: Australia Korea Foundation 2016 from (2016 to 2016)
- Music Made Visible.Rockets on a Starry Night: a dual biography of George Balanchine & Lucette Aldous. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups 2015 from (2015 to 2017)
6 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions