Jeanine Leane

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Jeanine Leane
Born1961
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
NationalityAboriginal, Wiradjuri
Alma mater University of New England, Armidale; University of Canberra
Occupation(s)Poet, activist, and academic
AwardsDavid Harold Tribe Poetry Award [1]

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.

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Biography

Jeanine 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

Leane'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

Recognition

In 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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Wiradjuri poet Jeanine Leane wins Australia's richest poetry prize". University of Sydney.
  2. 1 2 "Jeanine Leane". Library of Congress.
  3. 1 2 Wheeler, Belinda (2014). "An Interview with Jeanine Leane". Antipodes. 28 (1): 173–182. doi:10.13110/antipodes.28.1.0173.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Jeanine Leane". Austlit. University of Queensland Australia.
  5. 1 2 "Jeanine Leane". Monash University.
  6. ↑ "Jeanine Leane". Monash University.
  7. ↑ Leane, Jeanine; Wheeler, Belinda (2014). "Gender in Purple Threads: An Interview with Jeanine Leane". Hecate. 40 (2): 84–92.
  8. 1 2 "Jeanine Leane". University of Wisconsin Madison.
  9. ↑ "Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize". Queensland Poetry.
  10. 1 2 "Jeanine Leane". Sydney Review of Books.
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