Selected Essays
Essays by Jeanine Leane informing an understanding of First Peoples’ storytelling and culture.
Marches des résistances, Paris (Photo: Peter Comisari)
Close Encounters: Getting under the skin of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity agendas, Sydney Review of Books (2023)
Everlasting Sovereignty: on the poetic conversation between Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella, Sydney Review of Books, (2023)
Cultural Rigour in First Nations Literary Critique, Sydney Review of Books (2023)
Returning to our Futures: on First Nations Speculative Fiction, Sydney Review of Books (2022)
A Call Across the Islands: On North American Lyric Nonfiction, Sydney Review of Books (2021)
Please Keep Loving: on Billy-Ray Belcourt A History of my Brief Body, Sydney Review of Books (2021)
Staring Back: A long form critique of Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen, Sydney Review of Books (2021)
The Power of Seeing Yourself on the Page: on Gary Lonesborough The Boy from the Mish, Sydney Review of Books (2021)
Living on Stolen Land: Deconstructing the Settler Mythscape: on Ambelin Kwaymullina, Sydney Review of Books (2020)
Guwayu – for all times: on First Nations Poetry, Sydney Review of Books (2020)
On the Power to be Still: Throat by Ellen van Neerven, Sydney Review of Books (2020)
No Longer Malleable Stuff: on invisible whiteness and the positionality of the author, Overland (2020)
Testimony from the Home Front: Aunty Kerry Reed-Gilbert , Sydney Review of Books (2019)
Ultima-Thule: Blakwork by Alison Whittaker, Sydney Review of Books (2019)
Subjects of the Imagination: on Writing otherness and what is at stake in literary representation, Overland (2018)
Telling Other People’s Stories: on cultural appropriation and telling someone else’s story, Overland (2016)
Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey – creative nonfiction exploring layers of racism and classism in Australia and China, Peril (2019)
Gathering and the Politics of Memory and Contemporary Aboriginal Women’s Writing, Antipodes Vol. 31, No. 2, December 2017
Historyless People – discussion of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and the limitations of the western concept of linear time, Long History, Deep Time (2015)