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Dr Jessica Gildersleeve

Name :	Dr Jessica Gildersleeve
Position :	Lecturer (English Literature)
Section :	Faculty of Arts School of Humanities and Communication
Office :	Q202
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1043
Extension :	1043
E-mail :
Qualifications :	PhD Bristol

Professional Affiliations

Executive Committee (Membership), Australian Modernist Studies Network
Marketing Secretary, Katherine Mansfield Society
Book Reviews Editor, Queensland Review
Assistant Manuscript Editor, MP: An Online Feminist Journal
Advisory Editor, Revelations: Postgraduate Research in Mansfield Studies
Member, Queensland Writers Centre
Member, Contemporary Women's Writing Association

Research Interests

Women's writing 19thC-present, trauma theory, Modernism, contemporary literature, postcolonial literatures

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Gildersleeve, Jessica. 'Trauma, Memory and Landscape in Queensland: Women Writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water.' Queensland Review 19.2 (2012): 205-16.
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 'Jean Rhys's Tropographies: Unmappable Identity and the Tropical Landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and Selected Short Fiction.' e-tropic 10 (2011): 32-38.
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 'Monstrous Child: Rosamond Lehmann's Wartime Writing.' Philament 17 (2011): 1-11

Most notable :
Gildersleeve, Jessica. Elizabeth Bowen and the Writing of Trauma: The Ethics of Survival. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, forthcoming.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

ENL1000 Introduction to Literature
ENL2002 Romanticism
ENL3000 Modern Literature
ENL3004 The Literary Canon

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 6 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Co-Coordinator, Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Series