Associate ProfessorJessamy Gleeson
(she/her)
Associate Professor, Writing and Literature
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
Orcid identifier0000-0002-2873-1062 (opens in a new tab)
- Associate Professor, Writing and LiteratureFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
- +61 3 924 46153 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Jessamy's areas of research include:
- Digital feminist activism and resistance
- Intersectionality and representation across media and communication platforms
- Researcher wellbeing and trauma
- Indigneous Knowledges
- Feminist research methodologies
- Contemporary and historic feminisms
- Media and communication platforms as forms of resistance
Jessamy's research asks how gender inequality is produced and challenged, and combines feminist approaches with questions of Indigenous knowledge, trauma, care and institutional change. On a broad level, her work considers how power operates in everyday cultural and educational institutions, and how activism and research can challenge that power without reproducing other inequalities.
GRANTS
- COMPETITIVE GRANTIHT Accelerator Grant: How to measure the extent and impact of research-related distress and trauma in researchersDeakin University1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Fiolet R,
- Gleeson J,
- Schoch M,
- Cameron J,
- Hutchinson A
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAboriginal Health Improvement Initiative with Barwon Health18 Nov 2024 - 30 Jun 2025People funded by this grant:
- Fiolet R,
- Gleeson J,
- Whan-Cooper J
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCo-design, development and evaluation of state-wide model for victim advocacy service and model of an integrated response to sexual assault20 Mar 2024 - 31 Jan 2027People funded by this grant: