Jeanine Leane (born 1961) is a Wiradjuri poet and activist from southwest New South Wales. She is an associate professor in creative writing at the University of Melbourne.
Jeanine Leane | |
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| Born | 1961 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Aboriginal, Wiradjuri |
| Alma mater | University of New England, Armidale; University of Canberra |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, activist, and academic |
| Awards | David Harold Tribe Poetry Award[1] |
Biography
editJeanine Leane was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.[2] She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation.[3]
She earned her BA in Literature and History from University of New England, Armidale in 1983. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Education from University of Canberra in 1984.[4]
In 2011, she earned a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation. Her research not only explored Aboriginal narratives, but examined white settler icons to give an Aboriginal perspective and critique.[3]
She had a long career as a secondary school teacher before becoming faculty at University of Melbourne. She worked with Aboriginal students to support them entering university programs. She also taught indigenous education to non-Aboriginal student teachers.[2]
She was an Indigenous Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Leane was also a post-doctoral fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University.[5]
Literary career
editLeane's poetry and creative works explore Aboriginal perspectives and settler presentations in literature, and Aboriginal writing "as an important site of personal, national and collective memory."[6] She has published three volumes of poetry and fiction, and numerous other publications including poetry, book reviews, and interviews.
Even her fictional book, Purple Threads, is a fictionalization of the women in her life including her mother, grandmother, and aunts.[7]
Published works
edit- Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 (poetry)
- Purple Threads (fiction)
- Walk Back Over (poetry)
- Guwayu (poetry, edited volume)
Recognition
editIn 2010, her first volume of poetry Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry from the Australian Poets' Union.[4] Her novel Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award.
In 2013, she received an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Fellowship.[5] In 2020, she received a JUNCTURE fellowship.[4]
- 2017, University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize[8]
- 2017, Oodergroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry[8]
- 2019, Oodergroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry[9]
- 2019, Red Room Poetry Fellowship for "Voicing the Unsettled Space: Rewriting the Colonial Mythscape"[10]
- 2020, Discovery Indigenous Award[10]
- 2023, David Harold Tribe Award for Poetry for "Water Under the Bridge."[4]
References
edit- ^ "Wiradjuri poet Jeanine Leane wins Australia's richest poetry prize". University of Sydney.
- ^ a b "Jeanine Leane". Library of Congress.
- ^ a b Wheeler, Belinda (2014). "An Interview with Jeanine Leane". Antipodes. 28 (1): 173–182. doi:10.13110/antipodes.28.1.0173.
- ^ a b c d "Jeanine Leane". Austlit. University of Queensland Australia.
- ^ a b "Jeanine Leane". Monash University.
- ^ "Jeanine Leane". Monash University.
- ^ Leane, Jeanine; Wheeler, Belinda (2014). "Gender in Purple Threads: An Interview with Jeanine Leane". Hecate. 40 (2): 84–92.
- ^ a b "Jeanine Leane". University of Wisconsin Madison.
- ^ "Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize". Queensland Poetry.
- ^ a b "Jeanine Leane". Sydney Review of Books.