Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer and scholar with a special interest in writing identity and difference, literary representation and cultural rigour in literary critique. JL teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne.
All essays by Jeanine Leane
Returning to Our Futures
What the First Nations writers in This All Come Back Now reveal is that the only civilization in need of saving is the present western capitalist one – for its capacity to self-destruct and for its inability to listen.
May. 2022 •
Australian literature • Fiction • First Nations literatures • Speculative fiction • Juncture
Testimony from the Home Front: Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert
On 13 July 2019, in the middle of Canberra’s notoriously hard winter, Australia lost a literary treasure and lifelong activist whose work and writing was, in her own lifetime at least, largely unsung.
Oct. 2019 •
First Nations literatures • Non-fiction