Jessica Gildersleeve
Jessica Gildersleeve FHEA is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland, where she leads research projects across the Centre for Heritage and Culture and the Centre for Health Research exploring trauma and wellbeing in a range of narrative and cultural contexts. She is the author and editor of several books, including Christos Tsiolkas: The Utopian Vision (Cambria 2017), and most recently, Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television (Amsterdam UP 2022).
All essays by Jessica Gildersleeve
A Book About Beauty
7 ½ is a manifesto of Tsiolkas’s evolved ideas about art, and a testimony to the lived experience of the past two years. At its core, it is concerned simultaneously to sketch the blind cruelty of global disaster and to find and celebrate the beauty and joy in the ordinary simplicity of everyday life.