Dr Jacqueline Z Wilson

Position: Deputy Program Coordinator - Bachelor of Education Bachelor of Education - Year 3 Joint Coordinator Chair - Research Committee Location: Mt Helen Campus, T Building, Room T318 Phone: +61 3 5327 9022 Fax: +61 3 5327 9717 Email: jz.wilson@ballarat.edu.au

Qualifications

• Ph.D. (Monash University)
• B.A. (Hons) (La Trobe University)
• Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education (University of Ballarat)

Teaching

• EDBPE4005: Australian Education: Change & Possibilities
• EDBED2002: Young People’s Worlds
• EDDDE1002/EDTEC1013: Young People & Learning Environments
• EDHON4902: Honours Thesis

Biography

Jacqueline Wilson is a graduate of La Trobe University in Sociology, where she was awarded the David Myer University Medal, and has a PhD in History from Monash University. Before taking up her position in the school of Education, Jacqui taught Australian and British History, Sociology and Politics, at La Trobe, Monash and Melbourne Universities. She has publications in a number of international journals in the fields of History, Anthropology, Criminology and Prison Studies, and is the author of Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism, (Peter Lang; New York, 2008). Jacqui is currently conducting research into Australian prison education, and the role of war memorials and national memory in the Australian school curriculum.

Areas of Expertise

Deviance and youth cultures; alternative education; prison education; nationalism; graffiti and institutional cultures; narrative and autobiography; and popular culture.

Research Interests

The sociology and culture of Australian education, prison education, popular culture, women educators, racism, youth culture and graffiti, nationalism and the Australian school curriculum.

Supervision

I am currently a supervisor and associate supervisor for PhD, Masters and Honours candidates.

Publications

Books

2008, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism (Peter Lang: New York).

Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism is an ethnographic study of Australia’s historical prison tourist sites. Author Jacqueline Wilson spent two years travelling around Australia, conducting research at rural and urban prisons across the continent, interviewing former prison officers, tour guides and visitors, searching archives and gaining access to cell blocks and other areas normally closed to public view. This book traces the significance of prisons in the formation of Australian national identity and documents graffiti left behind by male and female inmates at some of Australia’s most notorious prison sites, such as Boggo Road in Brisbane, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia and Pentridge in Victoria. Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism is available through Ballarat Books

Book Chapters

2010, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, "Dark Tourism, National Identity and the Australian School Curriculum", in Tourism and National Identity: An International Perspective, Frew Elspeth and Leanne White (Eds), Sydney, Routledge.

2006, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “In Prison”, in Robert Manne and Peter Beilhartz (eds), Reflected Light: LTU Essays, Black Inc.

2006, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “The Incarcerated”, in Peter Beilhartz & Trevor Hogan (eds), Introducing Sociology: Place Time and Division, Oxford University Press.

2005, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “Ellen Kelly” entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement, MUP.

Refereed Journal Articles

2009, Wilson, Jacqueline Z; Marks, Genee; Noone, Lynne & Hamilton-Mackenzie, Jennifer, "Retaining a Foothold on the Slippery Paths of Academia: University Women, Indirect Discrimination, and the Academic Marketplace", Accepted and Forthcoming, Gender and Education, London, Routledge.

2009, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, Adolescent Resistant Narratives in a Satirical Schoolyard: the Case of Summer Heights High, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 33, No 3, September, Sydney, Routledge

2008, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “Transgressive Decor: Narrative Glimpses in Australian Prisons, 1970s-1990s”, Crime, Media Culture, Vol 4 No 3, Sage (London).

2008, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “The Gendered Prison Experience: Implied Narratives in Male and Female Inmate Graffiti in an Australian Jail”, Ethnography Vol 9 No 1, Sage (London).

2008, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “Racist and Political Extremist Graffiti in Australian Prisons, 1970s to 1990s”, The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice, Vol 47 issue 1, Blackwell (London).

2005, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “Representing Pentridge: The Loss of Narrative Diversity in the Populist Interpretation of a Former Total Institution”, Australian Historical Studies, Melbourne University Press, April.

2004, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “Dark Tourism and the Celebrity Prisoner”, Journal of Australian Studies, Queensland University Press, Spring.

2003, Wilson, Jacqueline Z.,"Relics of a Desperate Act: Escape and Containment in J Ward", History Australia Vol 1 No 1, Australian Historical Association, Monash University, Dec.

2002, Wilson, Jacqueline Z, “Invisible Racism: The Language and Ontology of ‘White Trash’”, Critique of Anthropology, Vol 22 No 4, Sage (London).

Exhibitions

2008, Kenneth Pleban and Jacqueline Z. Wilson, "Arresting Time", Ballarat Post Office, Gallery Nov-Dec.

Conference Presentations

2009, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Retaining a Foothold on the Slippery Paths of Academia”, Higher Education Recruitment and Retention Conference, Invited Paper, Sydney, February.

2008, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Adolescent Resistance Narratives in a Satirical Schoolyard: The Case of Summer Heights High”, American Popular Culture Association, Niagara Falls, Canada, November.

2006, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Censoring the Deviant: The Politics of Researching Women’s Prison Graffiti”, Twenty-First Century Feminisms: Australian Feminist Association, June.

2005, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Resistance and Violence in the Total Institution”, Invited paper, University of Sydney, School of Sociology: Seminar Series, September.

2005, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Women Confined”, paper to Lilith Symposium, University of Melbourne, November.

2004, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Friendship, Gender and Inmate Graffiti in Australian Historical Prisons”, paper to Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Monash–Menzies Conference, “The Politics of Friendship”, London, UK, Sept.

2004, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Doing Time with the Bat Nazis: Racist and Political Extremist Graffiti in Australian Prisons, 1970s to 1990”, paper to British World Conference, University of Melbourne, July, 2004; and to British Australian Studies Association biennial conference Projecting Australia, Cardiff, Wales, Sept.

2004, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Ellen Kelly: Matriarch as Agent”, paper to Women’s History Network conference: Women, Wealth and Power, Kingston upon Hull, UK, Sept.

2003, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Remembering Pentridge: The Appropriation of Narratives of a Former Total Institution”, paper to the Australia and New Zealand Symposium on Criminology, Sydney, Oct.

2003, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Relics of a Desperate Act: Escape and Containment in J Ward”, paper to the Institute of Convict Studies conference: Escape, Strahan, Tasmania, July.

2002, Wilson, Jacqueline Z: “Chopper Woz Here: Competing Narratives of a Maximum Security Prison”, paper to Islands Of Vanishment conference, Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasmania, June

Associations and Editorships

• Executive board member and treasurer for the International Association of Australian Studies Association.
• The Australian Historical Association.
• The Australian Sociological Association.
• School of Education: Research committee member.
• Editorial board member for the journals "Ethnography" and "The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice".