Prof Jessica Gildersleeve

Prof Jessica Gildersleeve
NameProf Jessica Gildersleeve
Email Addressjessica.gildersleeve@unisq.edu.au
Job TitleProfessor (English Literature)
QualificationsBA Qld, BA(Hons) Qld, PhD Bristol
DepartmentSchool of Humanities and Communication
AffiliationsCentre for Health Research
Centre for Heritage and Culture
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7694-5615
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BA
Qld
2004
BA(Hons)
Qld
2005
PhD
Bristol
2010

Current Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCommenced
Weird Fiction Monsters: Hauntology and AffectivityAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2024
A study of Picnic at Hanging Rock and a range of Australian Gothic texts such as Voss and The White Earth through the lens of Hegelian/Ecocritical theoryPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2024
Redemption Arcs and Paper Cranes: Dramione as Genre and the Mapping of a Reading CommunityPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2024
Cognitive literary examination of the pseudocouple structurePrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2023
Implementing a Trauma-informed Editing Framework: Practical Benefits to Editor Wellbeing and the Role of Self-care in Australian Editing PraxisAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2023
Not All Pixies and Fairy Dust: Investigating the Socioeconomic Impacts on and Practices of Australian Women Artists Ola Cohn and Janice MillsPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2022
The Pony Book 'Heroine' in Children's Equine Fiction 1930 to 1990: A Critical Discourse AnalysisPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2022
Womens leadership in Australian NGOs: Future perspectives post-global pandemic Covid-19Principal SupervisorDoctoral2021
The Voice of the Narod in Soviet-Era Trauma NarrativesAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2020
War and memory Image and reality in the Australian experience of the Afghanistan and Iraq warsPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2019

Completed Supervisions

Research TitleSupervisor TypeLevel of StudyCompleted
Trauma and Coloniality in Contemporary Australian and Chilean Women¿s WritingPrincipal SupervisorDoctoral2024
Stars and Shadows: Magic and Identity in Contemporary Australian Middle-grade Fantasy FictionAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2024
Tricky Writing: Women and Animals as Tricksters in Anthropogenic FictionAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2023
Re-forming faith: Idolatry in the Victorian novelAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2019
In Shelley's wake: Tracing two centuries of impactAssociate SupervisorDoctoral2018

Justice on demand? The true crime podcasts serving up Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial

Cantrell, Kate and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2025. "Justice on demand? The true crime podcasts serving up Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial ." The Conversation.

Stepmums, alien mums, robot mums, vengeful mums: 7 films to watch this Mother’s Day

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate, Williams, Kathleen, Allmark, Panizza, Beirne, Rebecca, Elkington, Ruari and Hopkins, Susan. 2025. "Stepmums, alien mums, robot mums, vengeful mums: 7 films to watch this Mother’s Day ." The Conversation.

"When This Hurt Heals": Hope, Humanity, and Cultural Haunting in Cargo

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate. 2025. ""When This Hurt Heals": Hope, Humanity, and Cultural Haunting in Cargo." Bacon, Simon (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie. Cham. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-15

The Strategies of Picture Books as a Mode of Health Communication for Young Children with Coeliac Disease

McKeon, Lydia, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Mullens, Amy B.. 2025. "The Strategies of Picture Books as a Mode of Health Communication for Young Children with Coeliac Disease." Children. 12 (5), p. 530. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12050530

Gender minority stress, resilience, and coping experiences of trans women incarcerated in Australia

du Plessis, Carol, Sanders, Tait, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Mullens, Amy, Olczak, Adam and Bromdal, Annette. 2025. "Gender minority stress, resilience, and coping experiences of trans women incarcerated in Australia." International Journal of Transgender Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2025.2487015

A Child Killer, Parenting Struggles, and 'Innies' Running Wild: What to Stream in April

Richards, Stuart, Harrington, Erin, Camp, Gregory, Ford, Jessica, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate, Giuffre, Liz and Morrell, Sascha. 2025. "A Child Killer, Parenting Struggles, and 'Innies' Running Wild: What to Stream in April ." The Conversation.

Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab's 'post-novels' have a bit of everything

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2025. "Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab's 'post-novels' have a bit of everything ." The Conversation.

We Now Know 'Troubled Teen' Memoirs Like Go Ask Alice Were a Mormon Wife's Fiction – So Why Are We Still Treating Them as Truth?

Cantrell, Kate and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2024. "We Now Know 'Troubled Teen' Memoirs Like Go Ask Alice Were a Mormon Wife's Fiction – So Why Are We Still Treating Them as Truth?" The Conversation.

"I Know the Degradation, the Humiliation around Being Incarcerated and Ostracized, and Marginalized, and Sexualized"

Phillips, Tania, Clark, Kirsty A., Bromdal, Annette, Mullens, Amy, Sanders, Tait, Halliwell, Sherree, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Daken, Kirstie, Debattista, Joseph, du Plessis, Carol, Simpson, Paul and Hughto, Jaclyn M.W.. 2025. ""I Know the Degradation, the Humiliation around Being Incarcerated and Ostracized, and Marginalized, and Sexualized"." Maycock, Matthew, O‘Shea, Saoirse and Jenness, Valerie (ed.) Transgender People Involved with Carceral Systems: International Perspectives. United Kingdom. Routledge. pp. 21-45

Reading, Reflection, and Resilience in the Study of Australian Literature

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate, Bryce, India and Cripps, Camilla. 2024. "Reading, Reflection, and Resilience in the Study of Australian Literature." Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. 71 (1), pp. 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2024.2427569

Woman of the Hour: Anna Kendrick's Unflinching Directorial Debut Reframes True Crime for a Post-#MeToo Era

Cantrell, Kate, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Hopkins, Susan. 2024. "Woman of the Hour: Anna Kendrick's Unflinching Directorial Debut Reframes True Crime for a Post-#MeToo Era ." The Conversation.

Naked tennis, outback feuds and a chimp named Tonka: what we're streaming in November

Scarlata, Alexa, Gildersleeve, Jessica, McAlister, Jodi, McWilliam, Kelly, Deller, Marina, Burne, Philippa and Hart, Phoebe. 2024. "Naked tennis, outback feuds and a chimp named Tonka: what we're streaming in November ." The Conversation.

Spiritual Vertigo: Illness, Affect and Modernity in Prelude to Christopher

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2024. "Spiritual Vertigo: Illness, Affect and Modernity in Prelude to Christopher." Morrison, Fiona and Rooney, Brigid (ed.) Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark's Fiction. Australia. Sydney University Press. pp. 111-123

A Kid Called Troy at 30: This Beautiful Aussie Film was one of the Most Important HIV/AIDS Documentaries Ever Produced

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Mullens, Amy, Bromdal, Annette, Cantrell, Kate and Sanders, Tait. 2023. "A Kid Called Troy at 30: This Beautiful Aussie Film was one of the Most Important HIV/AIDS Documentaries Ever Produced ." The Conversation.

Minimizing Harm and Maximizing Benefit: Transforming Learning and Teaching for the Helping Professions

Bryce, Inia, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate. 2023. "Minimizing Harm and Maximizing Benefit: Transforming Learning and Teaching for the Helping Professions ." Teaching Beyond the Curriculum - Focus on Pedagogy 2023. 15 - 17 Nov 2023

Where do incarcerated trans women prefer to be housed and why? Adding nuanced understandings to a complex debate through the voices of formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the United States

Bromdal, Annette, Sanders, Tait, Stanners, Melinda, du Plessis, Carol, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Mullens, Amy B., Phillips, Tania M., Debattista, Joseph, Daken, Kirstie, Clark, Kirsty A. and Hughto, Jaclyn M. W.. 2024. "Where do incarcerated trans women prefer to be housed and why? Adding nuanced understandings to a complex debate through the voices of formerly incarcerated trans women in Australia and the United States." International Journal of Transgender Health. 25 (2), pp. 167-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2023.2280167

Correctional staff knowledge, attitudes and behaviors toward incarcerated trans people: A scoping review of an emerging literature

Daken, Kirstie, Excell, Tarra, Clark, Kirsty A., Hughto, Jaclyn M. W, Sanders, Tait, Debattista, Joseph, du Plessis, Carol, Mullens, Amy, Phillips, Tania, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Bromdal, Annette. 2024. "Correctional staff knowledge, attitudes and behaviors toward incarcerated trans people: A scoping review of an emerging literature ." International Journal of Transgender Health. 25 (2), pp. 149-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2023.2265386

Grunge, Nation and Literary Generations: Christos Tsiolkas and Genre

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2023. "Grunge, Nation and Literary Generations: Christos Tsiolkas and Genre." Carter, David (ed.) The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel. United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. pp. 488-501

“Never Let Anyone Say That a Good Fight for the Fight for Good Wasn’t a Good Fight Indeed”: The Enactment of Agency Through Military Metaphor by One Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman

Halliwell, Sherree, Hickey, Andrew, du Plessis, Carol du, Mullens, Amy B., Sanders, Tait, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Phillips, Tania M., Debattista, Joseph, Clark, Kirsty A., Hughto, Jaclyn M. W., Daken, Kirstie and Bromdal, Annette. 2023. "“Never Let Anyone Say That a Good Fight for the Fight for Good Wasn’t a Good Fight Indeed”: The Enactment of Agency Through Military Metaphor by One Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman." Paner, Heather and Dwyer, Angela (ed.) Transgender People and Criminal Justice: An Examination of Issues in Victimology, Policing, Sentencing, and Prisons. Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 183-212

'The Practice of Freedom': Thoughts Towards Realigning the Priorities of Secondary and Tertiary Literature Educators

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Bedford, Alison. 2023. "'The Practice of Freedom': Thoughts Towards Realigning the Priorities of Secondary and Tertiary Literature Educators." Australian Journal of English Education (AJEE). 58 (1), pp. 46-53.

An Open Letter to Students: How to Be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Cantrell, Kate and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2023. "An Open Letter to Students: How to Be Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable." Sullivan, Patrick, Tinberg, Howard and Blau, Sheridan (ed.) Deep Reading, Deep Learning. New York. Peter Lang Publishing. pp. 367-70

Proceed with Caution: The Trouble with Trigger Warnings

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Bryce, India and Cantrell, Kate. 2022. "Proceed with Caution: The Trouble with Trigger Warnings." The Conversation.

Commemorating Forgetting: 1922 and Golden Age Detective Fiction

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2022. "Commemorating Forgetting: 1922 and Golden Age Detective Fiction." Modernism/Modernity. 7 (2). https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0245

Traumatisation, Critical Reflection, and Painful Pedagogy: Students’ Reflexive Engagement with Difficult Content

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate and Bryce, India. 2022. "Traumatisation, Critical Reflection, and Painful Pedagogy: Students’ Reflexive Engagement with Difficult Content." Transformative Teaching: Focus on Pedagogy 2022 AMPS. Florida State University, University of Dundee, Zayed University 15 - 17 Nov 2022

From Stage to Page to Screen: The Traumatic Returns of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife

Prowse, Nycole, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate. 2022. "From Stage to Page to Screen: The Traumatic Returns of Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife." Social Alternatives. 41 (3), pp. 30-36. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.719953708416246

The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938 by Helen de Guerry Simpson

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2022. "The Outcast and the Rite: Stories of Landscape and Fear, 1925-1938 by Helen de Guerry Simpson." Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 26 (1), pp. 82-83.

Monstrous Victims: Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Sulway, Nike and Howell, Amanda. 2022. "Monstrous Victims: Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate (ed.) Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 213-228

Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate. Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate (ed.) 2022. Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press.

Please Check the Signal: Screening the Gothic in the Upside Down

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate. 2022. "Please Check the Signal: Screening the Gothic in the Upside Down." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate (ed.) Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 7-17

Pulling the Trigger: A Systematic Literature Review of Trigger Warnings as a Strategy for Reducing Traumatization in Higher Education

Bryce, India, Horwood, Nicola, Cantrell, Kate and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2023. "Pulling the Trigger: A Systematic Literature Review of Trigger Warnings as a Strategy for Reducing Traumatization in Higher Education." Trauma, Violence and Abuse: a review journal. 24 (4), pp. 2882-2894. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221118968

Queer disorientations in Only the Brave, Head On, and Blessed

McWilliam, Kelly and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2022. "Queer disorientations in Only the Brave, Head On, and Blessed ." Studies in Australasian Cinema. 16 (2-3), pp. 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2022.2095160

A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman’s Letters of Complaint and Self-Advocacy

Halliwell, Sherree D., du Plessis, Carol, Hickey, Andrew, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Mullens, Amy B., Sanders, Tait, Clark, Kirsty A., Hughto, Jaclyn M. W., Debattista, Joseph, Phillips, Tania M., Daken, Kirstie and Bromdal, Annette. 2022. "A Critical Discourse Analysis of an Australian Incarcerated Trans Woman’s Letters of Complaint and Self-Advocacy." Ethos. 50 (2), pp. 208-232. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12343

A Trans Agent of Social Change in Incarceration: A Psychobiographical Study of Natasha Keating

du Plessis, Carol, Halliwell, Sherree, Mullens, Amy, Sanders, Tait, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Phillips, Tania and Bromdal, Annette. 2023. "A Trans Agent of Social Change in Incarceration: A Psychobiographical Study of Natasha Keating." Journal of Personality. 91 (1), pp. 50-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12745

Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States

Bromdal, Annette, Halliwell, Sherree, Sanders, Tait, Clark, Kirsty A., Gildersleeve, Jessica, Mullens, Amy B., Phillips, Tania M., Debattista, Joseph, du Plessis, Carol, Daken, Kirstie and Hughto, Jaclyn. 2023. "Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States." Feminism and Psychology. 33 (1), pp. 42-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221102224

Coping with COVID: Pandemic Narratives for Australian Children

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate, Bryce, India, Daken, Kirstie, Durham, Jo, Mullens, Amy, Batorowicz, Beata, Johnson, Rhiannan, Gildersleeve J., Cantrell K., Bryce I., Daken K., Durham J., Mullens A., Batorowicz B. and Johnson R.. 2022. "Coping with COVID: Pandemic Narratives for Australian Children." Heliyon. 8 (5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09454

Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction by Victoria Coulson

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2022. "Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction by Victoria Coulson." Modern Language Review. 117 (Part 2), pp. 296-297. https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2022.0038

Trans architecture and the prison as archive: 'don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested'

Sanders, Tait, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Halliwell, Sherree, du Plessis, Carol, Clark, Kirsty A., Hughto, Jaclyn M. W., Mullens, Amy B., Phillips, Tania M., Daken, Kirstie and Bromdal, Annette. 2023. "Trans architecture and the prison as archive: 'don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested'." Punishment and Society: the international journal of penology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221087058

Victimization Within and Beyond the Prison Walls: A Latent Profile Analysis of Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults

Hughto, Jaclyn M. W., Clark, Kirsty A., Daken, Kirstie, Bromdal, Annette, Mullens, Amy B., Sanders, Tait, Phillips, Tania, Mimiaga, Matthew J., Cahill, Sean, du Plessis, Carol, Gildersleeve, Jessica, Halliwell, Sherree D. and Reisner, Sari L.. 2022. "Victimization Within and Beyond the Prison Walls: A Latent Profile Analysis of Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults." Journal of Interpersonal Violence: concerned with the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of physical and sexual violence. 37 (23-24), pp. 23075-23106. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211073102

Barracuda's Freak Bodies and Elite Swimming in Australia

Gildersleeve, Jessica and McDonald, Janet. 2022. "Barracuda's Freak Bodies and Elite Swimming in Australia." Journal of Australian Studies. 46 (1), pp. 98-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2027806

Monstrous Victims : Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Sulway, Nike and Howell, Amanda. 2022. "Monstrous Victims : Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate (ed.) Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 213-228

Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia — The Outsider Artist

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2022. "Introduction: Christos Tsiolkas and Contemporary Australia — The Outsider Artist." Journal of Australian Studies. 46 (1), pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2028368

Introduction [to A room of one's own: the feminist classic]

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2021. "Introduction [to A room of one's own: the feminist classic]." Butler-Bowden, Tom (ed.) A room of one's own: the feminist classic. United Kingdom. John Wiley & Sons. pp. vii-xxii

Abused, Neglected, Abandoned: Did Roald Dahl Hate Children as Much as the Witches Did?

Cantrell, Kate, Bryce, India and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2021. "Abused, Neglected, Abandoned: Did Roald Dahl Hate Children as Much as the Witches Did?" The Conversation.

Aurora Teagarden, the Cozy and the Southern Gothic

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2021. "Aurora Teagarden, the Cozy and the Southern Gothic." Betz, Phyllis M. (ed.) Reading the Cozy Mystery: Critical Essays on an Underappreciated Subgenre. Jefferson, United States. McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 156-168

Terror in Colonial Australian Literature

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2021. "Terror in Colonial Australian Literature." Bloom, Clive (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 203-215

Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices

Sulway, Nike. 2021. "Magical Migrations: Australian Fairy Tale Traditions and Practices." Gildersleeve, Jessica (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature. New York, United States. Routledge. pp. 374-383

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

Gildersleeve, Jessica (ed.) 2021. The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature. New York, United States. Routledge.

Introduction: Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2021. "Introduction: Australian Literature, Companionship, and Viral Responsibility." Gildersleeve, Jessica (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature. New York, United States. Routledge. pp. 1-6

Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing

Cantrell, Kate. 2021. "Reluctant Wandering: New Mobilities in Contemporary Australian Travel Writing." Gildersleeve, Jessica (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature. New York; London. Routledge. pp. 353-364

Class, rage, and staging the revolution: Tsiolkas's theatre

Burton, David, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Kelly, Kathryn. 2021. "Class, rage, and staging the revolution: Tsiolkas's theatre." Antipodes: a global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature. 35 (1), pp. 53-65.

Tsiolkas in the Classroom: Confronting Our Discomfort

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate, Prowse, Nycole, Bickle, Sharon and Bryce, India. 2021. "Tsiolkas in the Classroom: Confronting Our Discomfort." Antipodes. 35 (1-2), pp. 83-101.

Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature

Hourigan, Daniel. 2020. "Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australian Literature." Gildersleeve, Jessica (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature. New York. Routledge. pp. 254-261

Triggering Kindness: Teaching Narratives of Trauma During COVID-19

Cantrell, Kate and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2020. "Triggering Kindness: Teaching Narratives of Trauma During COVID-19." NiTRO: Creative Matters.

First a Play, Now a Book, Soon a Film: Reimagining Henry Lawson’s Short Story ‘The Drover’s Wife’

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Cantrell, Kate and Prowse, Nycole. 2020. "First a Play, Now a Book, Soon a Film: Reimagining Henry Lawson’s Short Story ‘The Drover’s Wife’." The Short Story and Its Readers: Words and the World Symposium (2020). Geelong, Australia 02 Dec 2020

Introduction [to Non-combatants and others: writings against war, 1916-1945]

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2020. "Introduction [to Non-combatants and others: writings against war, 1916-1945]." Macaulay, Rose (ed.) Non-combatants and others: writings against war, 1916-1945. United Kingdom. Handheld Press. pp. ix-xxvi

Letter to the Australians

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2020. "Letter to the Australians." Meanjin. 79 (1), pp. 193-194.

‘A friend who stabs you’: Abjection, violence and the female clique in film

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2020. "‘A friend who stabs you’: Abjection, violence and the female clique in film." The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. 9 (1), pp. 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00013_1

Neo-gothic dinosaurs and the haunting of history

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Sulway, Nike. 2020. "Neo-gothic dinosaurs and the haunting of history." Maier, Sarah E. and Ayres, Brenda (ed.) Neo-gothic narratives: illusory allusions from the past. London, United Kingdom. Anthem Press. pp. 141-154

'We don’t recognize transsexuals … and we’re not going to treat you': cruel and unusual and the lived experiences of transgender women in US prisons

Phillips, Tania, Bromdal, Annette, Mullens, Amy, Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gow, Jeff. 2020. "'We don’t recognize transsexuals … and we’re not going to treat you': cruel and unusual and the lived experiences of transgender women in US prisons." Harmes, Marcus, Harmes, Meredith and Harmes, Barbara (ed.) The Palgrave handbook of incarceration in popular culture. Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 331-360

'This book belongs to': Trauma, (Bio)Degradation, and the Law in Visual and Narrative Diaries

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Batorowicz, Beata. 2020. "'This book belongs to': Trauma, (Bio)Degradation, and the Law in Visual and Narrative Diaries." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 43 (4), pp. 781-799. https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2020.0079

Contemporary Australian Trauma

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2020. "Contemporary Australian Trauma." Bloom, Clive (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 91-104

Thea Astley’s modernism of the 'Deep North', or on (un)kindness

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2019. "Thea Astley’s modernism of the 'Deep North', or on (un)kindness." Queensland Review. 26 (2), pp. 245-55. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.30

Bowen's recesses: from realism to inter-objectivity

Johnson, Laurie. 2019. "Bowen's recesses: from realism to inter-objectivity." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Smith, Patrica Juliana (ed.) Elizabeth Bowen: theory, thought and things. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 127-144

Introduction: thinking in/about Bowen

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Smith, Patricia Juliana. 2019. "Introduction: thinking in/about Bowen." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Smith, Patricia Juliana (ed.) Elizabeth Bowen: theory, thought and things. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-8

Elizabeth Bowen and the pleasure of the text

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2019. "Elizabeth Bowen and the pleasure of the text." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Smith, Patricia Juliana (ed.) Elizabeth Bowen: theory, thought and things. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 48-61

Elizabeth Bowen: theory, thought and things

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Smith, Patricia Juliana (ed.) 2019. Elizabeth Bowen: theory, thought and things. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press.

The violent pacifist: ethics and disorder in Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Sulway, Nike. 2019. "The violent pacifist: ethics and disorder in Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests." English. 68 (260), pp. 67-88. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efy057

'Weird Melancholy' and the modern television outback: rage, shame and violence in Wake in Fright and Mystery Road

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2019. "'Weird Melancholy' and the modern television outback: rage, shame and violence in Wake in Fright and Mystery Road." M/C Journal. 22 (1). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1500

Teaching Fun Home to Instill Reading Resilience in First-Year Literature Students

Seaboyer, Judith and Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2018. "Teaching Fun Home to Instill Reading Resilience in First-Year Literature Students." Gardiner, Judith Kegan (ed.) Approaches to Teaching Bechdel's Fun Home. New York, United States. Modern Language Association of America. pp. 163-167

‘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

Gildersleeve, Jessica, Batorowicz, Beata, Gildersleeve J. and Batorowicz B.. 2018. "‘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." Holocaust Studies. 24 (1), pp. 26-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2017.1340074

Don't look now

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. Don't look now. London, United Kingdom. Auteur.

Remembering the First World War after 9/11: Pat Barker’s life class and Toby’s Room

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. "Remembering the First World War after 9/11: Pat Barker’s life class and Toby’s Room." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard (ed.) Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives. Houndmills, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 111-123

Memory and the wars on terror

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard. 2017. "Memory and the wars on terror." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard (ed.) Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives. Houndmills, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-19

Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives

Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard (ed.) 2017. Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives. Houndmills, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. "Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others." Macdonald, Kate (ed.) Rose Macaulay, gender, and modernity. United Kingdom. Routledge. pp. 25-38

Christos Tsiolkas: the utopian vision

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. Christos Tsiolkas: the utopian vision. Amherst, New York. Cambria Press.

Queensland modernisms

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Queensland modernisms." Queensland Review. 23 (2), pp. 113-115. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.23

Traumatic cosmopolitanism: Eleanor Dark and the world at war

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Traumatic cosmopolitanism: Eleanor Dark and the world at war." Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation. 41 (1/2), pp. 7-17.

Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels." Jones, Adele and O'Callaghan, Clare (ed.) Sarah Waters and contemporary feminisms. Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 81-96

Nowadays: trauma and modernity in Agatha Christie's late Poirot novels

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Nowadays: trauma and modernity in Agatha Christie's late Poirot novels." Clues: a journal of detection. 34 (1), pp. 96-104.

Where is she? Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2015. "Where is she? Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen." Ailwood, Sarah and Harvey, Melinda (ed.) Katherine Mansfield and literary influence. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 35-47

'Ropes of stories': Jean Rhys, Vivienne Cleven, and Melissa Lucashenko

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2015. "'Ropes of stories': Jean Rhys, Vivienne Cleven, and Melissa Lucashenko." Queensland Review. 22 (1), pp. 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2015.7

For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. "For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen." Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation. 40 (1), pp. 134-141.

Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival. Amsterdam and New York. Rodopi.

'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. "'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap." Clues: a journal of detection. 32 (2), pp. 115-123. https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.32.2.115

Victorian vocabularies: refereed proceedings of the 2012 Australasian Victorian studies conference

Gildersleeve, Jessica (ed.) 2013. Victorian vocabularies: refereed proceedings of the 2012 Australasian Victorian studies conference. Australia. Macquarie Lighthouse E-book Publishing.

The spectre and the stage: reading and ethics at the intersection of psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the gothic

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2013. "The spectre and the stage: reading and ethics at the intersection of psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the gothic." Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 18 (3), pp. 99-108.

Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water'

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2012. "Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water'." Queensland Review. 19 (2), pp. 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.23

Monstrous child: Rosamond Lehmann's war writing

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Monstrous child: Rosamond Lehmann's war writing." Philament. 17 (17), pp. 1-11.

Her story: Liza's England (The Century's Daughter)

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Her story: Liza's England (The Century's Daughter)." Wheeler, Pat (ed.) Re-reading Pat Barker. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 25-41

Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 10, pp. 32-38.

Gender, memory and illness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2010. "Gender, memory and illness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." McClinton-Temple, Jennifer (ed.) Encyclopedia of themes in literature, volume 3. New York, NY. United States. Facts on File. pp. 901-904

Muddy death: fate, femininity and mourning in Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2010. "Muddy death: fate, femininity and mourning in Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight." Wisker, Gina and Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline (ed.) Rites of passage in postcolonial women's writing. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Rodopi. pp. 227-244

Regarding violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2009. "Regarding violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision." Peer English. 4, pp. 32-46.