Dr Jennifer Jones
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
- Telephone:
- (+61 2) 6051 6873
- Email:
- ja.jones@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 9347 7731
- Location:
- Rm 113, 137 Barry St
Australian Centre, Carlton VIC 3053
Academic Profile (click on the link for more information)
Biography
Jennifer Jones is an Australian Research Council Post Doctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies, at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD, "Aboriginal Women's Autobiographical Narratives and the Politics of Collaboration" (2002), from the University of Adelaide, focused upon Indigenous women’s political networks and the life story narratives that emerged from these alliances. In 2004-5 Jennifer held a part-time post-doctoral fellowship at The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne. This fellowship funded seeding research into her current project; Disparate Housewives: Rural women, cross-racial collaboration and life writing in the Country Women’s Association of NSW 1956-1996. Jennifer then worked as a Learning Sills Adviser for Indigenous students at Charles Sturt University in 2006-7. In 2007-8 Jennifer was Project Officer for an ARC Linkage grant entitled “The Participation Project: Participation following traumatic brain injury in rural and regional areas of New South Wales”. Jennifer lives and works in Albury, in southern NSW.
Research interests
Indigenous Australian literature; Indigenous Australian history; contemporary Australian literature; cross-cultural collaboration and the construction of identity (rurality and whiteness); editorial praxis; Women’s life writing; Wiradjuri history; Country Women’s Association, Traumatic brain injury and participation.
Publications
Books
- Jones, Jennifer (ed), Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Stradbroke Dreamtime, Harper Collins, Melbourne, in-press
- Jones, Jennifer, Black Writers and White Editors: Episodes of collaboration and compromise in Australian publishing history, Australian Scholarly Publishing, in press
Book Chapter
- Jones, Jennifer, “Cross-Racial Collaboration in the Country Women’s Association”, Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, Boucher, L, Carey, J, Ellinghaus, K (eds.) RMIT Publishing in association with the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2007, Available online [cited 13 Feb 08]
Refereed Journal Articles
- Jones, Jennifer, “Editing and the Politics of Race”, Journal of Australian Publishing, 2, 2006: pp 46-67
- Jones, Jennifer, 'Inside the CWA Rest Room', History Australia, 3, 1, 2006: pp 9.1-9.12
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘As Long as She Got Her Voice: How Cross-Cultural Collaboration Shapes Aboriginal Textuality’, Altitude, 5, 2005, Available online
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘Contemporary Indigenous Literature: A Review Essay’, Life Writing, 1, 2, 2004: pp 209-18
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘Deemed Unsuitable For Children: The Editing of Oodgeroo’s Stradbroke Dreamtime’, Papers: Explorations in Children’s Literature, 14,1, 2004: pp 5-14
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘Why Weren’t We Listening?: Oodgeroo and Judith Wright’, Overland, 171, Winter, 2003: pp 44-49
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘Oodgeroo and her Editor: The Production of Stradbroke Dreamtime’, Voicing Dissent: New Talents 21C, Journal of Australian Studies, 76, 2003: pp 47-55
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘Yesterday’s Words: The Editing of Monica Clare’s Karobran’, The Beautiful and the Damned, Journal of Australian Studies, No.64, 2000: pp 128-134
- Jones, Jennifer, 'The Black Communist: The Contested Memory of Margaret Tucker’, Hecate, 26, 2, 2000: pp 135-145
- Jones, Jennifer, ‘Reading Karobran by Monica Clare: An Aboriginal Engagement with Socialist Realism’, Overland, 161 Summer, 2000, pp 67-71
Un-refereed publications
- Bourke, J, Fisher, S, Jones, J, Russell, J, Transition to Tertiary Study for Indigenous Students, Learning Materials Centre, Charles Sturt University, 2007