Rate My Professor Jo Jones

Dr Jo Jones serves as Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. She earned her PhD from Curtin University in 2012, with a thesis on Australian historical novels written during the History Wars period. Her academic career encompasses teaching roles at the University of Tasmania as Lecturer in English Studies in the Faculty of Education, the University of Western Australia, and Curtin University. Jones resides in the Perth Hills and maintains expertise in literary pedagogy and disciplinarity.

Jones's research centers on literary representations of historical narratives, including contact zones between Indigenous and settler cultures in Australian fiction, the historical novel during the Australian History Wars, literary gothic form, deep history, and Australian gothic. In 2018, she published the monograph Falling Backwards: Australian Historical Fiction and the History Wars (Crow Books), adapted from her PhD supervised by Tim Dolin, which examines the political and ethical roles of historical fiction in depicting colonial frontiers through novels by Richard Flanagan, Kate Grenville, David Malouf, Kim Scott, and Rodney Hall. She co-edited Required Reading: Literature in Australian Schools Since 1945 (Monash University Publishing, 2017) with Tim Dolin and Patricia Dowsett. Additional contributions include peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL) and conference presentations such as 'Ghost maps as Affective and Spatial Pedagogy' at the China Australia Writing Centre. Jones supervises higher degree research students and engages in literary events addressing decolonising perspectives and cultural studies.