Rate My Professor Jessamy Gleeson

Jessamy Gleeson is an Associate Professor of Writing and Literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts within the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. She previously held the position of Associate Director (Teaching and Learning) at Deakin University's National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research Innovation (NIKERI) Institute. Gleeson earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Swinburne University of Technology between June 2012 and January 2017, with her doctoral research centered on contemporary forms of feminist activism within social media. She also holds a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education from Swinburne University of Technology.

Gleeson's academic interests encompass online feminist activism as performative consciousness-raising, such as in the #MeToo case study; digital labour in Australian online feminist campaigns; intersectionality within digital feminism; posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research in the academy; embedding First Nations knowledges, perspectives, and experiences in university criminology curricula; decolonising the Western scientific method; truth-telling in the Australian curriculum; embodied emotion work in feminist research; teaching sensitive topics in criminology; and subversive femininities in media like Yellowjackets. Her key publications include "Online Feminist Activism as Performative Consciousness-Raising: A #MeToo Case Study" (2019), "'(Not) working 9–5': the consequences of contemporary Australian-based online feminist campaigns as digital labour" (2016), "Troubling/trouble in the academy: posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual abuse research" (2021), "Truth‐telling in the Australian Curriculum" (2025), "Embedding First Nations Knowledges, perspectives, and experiences in university criminology curricula in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from a transnational survey" (2025), "Embodied Emotion Work in Feminist Research: Crying, Running, Dancing, Loving" (2025), and "'Those girls are vicious little monsters': reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets" (2024). Gleeson's scholarship has received over 190 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting her contributions to feminism, gender studies, and Indigenous knowledges in higher education. She supervises and teaches in areas including Indigenous knowledges, activism, and cultural identity.