Publications

Authored books

Carniel, Jessica, Understanding the Eurovision Song Contest in Multicultural Australia: We Got Love, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Edited collections

Carniel, Jessica and Nike Sulway (eds), Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

Hay, Chris and Jessica Carniel (eds), Australia and Eurovision: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Book chapters

Carniel, Jessica and Chris Hay, “The Fabulous Gold Coast: Constructing Australia’s Eurovision Capital”, in The Eurovision Song Contest: Perspectives from Tourism, Events and Leisure Studies, eds Oscar Vorobjovas-Pinta and Jack Shepherd, Channel View Publications. Forthcoming 2023.

Hay, Chris and Jessica Carniel, “Arm-chair Researchers: Modes of Ethnographic Research for Understanding and Experiencing Eurovision,” in Eurovision as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia, eds Adam Dubin, Antonio Obregón, and Dean Vuletic, Routledge, 2022.

Carniel, Jessica, “High, low, and participatory: Eurovision and cultural studies,” in Eurovision as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia, eds Adam Dubin, Antonio Obregón, and Dean Vuletic, Routledge, 2022.

Carniel, Jessica, “Anne with a Me: Reflecting on how Anne reflects ourselves,” in Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits, eds Jessica Carniel and Nike Sulway, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

Sulway, Nike and Jessica Carniel, “Introduction,” in Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits, eds Jessica Carniel and Nike Sulway, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

Carniel, Jessica, ““It Really Makes You Feel Part of the World”: Transnational connection for Australian Eurovision audiences,” in Eurovision and Australia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Down Under, eds Chris Hay and Jessica Carniel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Carniel, Jessica and Chris Hay, “Eurovision – Australia Decides: A Conclusion,” in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Eurovision: Perspectives from Down Under, eds Chris Hay and Jessica Carniel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Co-author Chris Hay.

Carniel, Jess, “Nation Branding, Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy at Eurovision: Between Australia and Europe”, in Eurovisions: identity and the international politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956, eds Julie Kalman, Ben Wellings, and Keshia Jacotine, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Carniel, Jessica, “This one loves that one: queerbaiting at the Eurovision Song Contest,” in Queerbaiting and Fandom, ed. Joseph Brennan, University of Iowa Press, 2019.

Carniel, Jessica, “Part of the party: Australian fans of Eurovision”, in Offline, Online and transcultural spaces in Australian fandom, eds Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael, University of Iowa Press, 2019.

Carniel, Jessica, “Remembering Laura Cereta: Public and Private Lives of a Humanist Scholar,” in Forgotten Lives: Recovering History through Fact and Fiction, eds Dallas Baker, Nike Sulway, and Donna Lee Brien, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Carniel, Jessica, “Death and the maiden: sacrifice, scandal and the gendered mediation of Australian soldiers”, in Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives, Jessica Gildersleeve and Richard Gehrmann (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Carniel, Jessica, “Triple J’s Hottest 100 music poll,” in Encyclopedia of Popular Culture in Asia and Oceania, eds Kathy Nadeau and Jeremy Murray, Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2016.

Carniel, Jessica, “Of Nerds and Men: Dimensions and Discourses of Masculinity in Nerds FC,” in The Sports Documentary: Critical Essays, eds Zachary Inglis and David Sutera, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Carniel, Jessica, “In the spirit of reconciliation: migrating spirits and Australian postcolonial multiculturalism in Hoa Pham’s Vixen,” in Spectral Identities: Ghosting in Literature and Film, eds Melanie Anderson and Lisa Sloan, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013.

Carniel, Jessica, “Who’s the weird mob anyway? Assimilation and authenticity in They’re A Weird Mob,” in Screening Australian and New Zealand Histories, eds James Bennett and Rebecca Beirne, London: IB Tauris, 2011.

Carniel, Jessica, “Sheilas, wogs and metrosexuals: masculinity, ethnicity and Australian soccer,” in The Containment of the Soccer in Australia: Fencing Off the World Game, eds Chris Hallinan and John Hughson, London: Routledge, 2010.

Carniel, Jessica, “‘Identities made in the kitchen taste best’: Consumption and denial of Italian Australian ethnicity as food in Capaldo’s Love Takes You Home,” in Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte (eds), Literary and Social Diasporas: an Italian Australian perspective, International Conference on Minorities and Cultural Assertions – Literary and Social Diasporas, the University of Wollongong, Australia, 8th-10th October 2004, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2007.

Journal articles

Carniel, Jessica, Andrew Hickey, Kim Southey, Annette Brömdal, Lynda Crowley-Cyr, Douglas Eacersall, Will Farmer, Richard Gehrmann, Tanya Machin, and Yosheen Pillay, “The Ethics Review and the Humanities and Social Sciences: Disciplinary Distinctions in Ethics Review Processes”, Research Ethics (2022), https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221147202.

Hickey, Andrew, Samantha Davis, Will Farmer, Julianna Dawidowicz, Clint Moloney, Andrea Lamont‑Mills, Jess Carniel, Yosheen Pillay, David Akenson, Annette Brömdal, Richard Gehrmann, Dean Mills, Tracy Kolbe‑Alexander, Tanya Machin, Suzanne Reich, Kim Southey, Lynda Crowley‑Cyr, Taiji Watanabe, Josh Davenport, Rohit Hirani, Helena King, Roshini Perera, Lucy Williams, Kurt Timmins, Michael Thompson, Douglas Eacersall, Jacinta Maxwell. “Beyond Criticism of Ethics Review Boards: Strategies for Engaging Research Communities and Enhancing Ethical Review Processes”, Journal of Academic Ethics, vol. 20, no. 4 (2022), pp. 549-567.

Carniel, Jessica, “A Commonwealth Princess? The instrumentalisation of Meghan Markle’s race to construct her royal persona,” Persona Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, (2021), https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/1459.

Carniel, Jessica, “Richard White’s Inventing Australia: revisiting the invention forty years later,” History Australia, vol. 18, no. 1 (2021), pp. 156-167.

Carniel, Jessica, “[Insert image here]: a reflection on the ethics of imagery in a critical pedagogy for the humanities,” Pedagogy, Culture & Society, vol. 26, no. 1 (2018), pp. 141-155.

Carniel, Jessica, “Welcome to Eurostralia: The Strategic Diversity of Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest”, Continuum, vol. 31, no. 1 (2017), pp. 1-11.

Carniel, Jessica, “Better off dead?: the creative practice of reviving Ophelia”, TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, no. 36 (2016), pp. 1-11.

Carniel, Jessica, “Calvary or limbo? Articulating identity and citizenship in two Italian Australian autobiographical narratives of WWII internment”, Queensland Review, vol. 23, no. 1 (2016), pp. 20-34.

Carniel, Jessica, “‘Either feed your belly or nourish your soul’: work, artistic aspiration and autobiography in Rosa R. Cappiello’s Oh Lucky Country,” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 1 (2016), pp. 130-149.

Carniel, Jessica, “Skirting the issue: finding queer and geopolitical belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest,” Contemporary Southeastern Europe, vol. 2, no. 2 (2015), pp. 135-154. Available at: < http://www.suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at/cse/en/current_issue&gt;.

Carniel, Jessica, “Reflections on Race, Regionalism and Geopolitical Trends via Australian Soccer,” International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 29, no. 7-8 (2012), pp. 2405-2420.

Carniel, Jessica, “A cultural affair to remember: nostalgia, whiteness and migration in Love’s Brother,” Studies in Australasian Cinema, vol. 3, no. 1 (2009), pp. 93-105.

Carniel, Jessica, “Sheilas, wogs and metrosexuals: masculinity, ethnicity and Australian soccer,” Soccer and Society, vol. 10, issue 1 (2009), pp. 73-83.

Carniel, Jessica, “Cloudland, Stronzoland, Brisbane: urban and ethnic development in Little Italy,” Crossings vol 11, no. 2 (2006).  Available at: <http://www.asc.uq.edu.au/crossings/11_2/index.php?apply=carniel&gt;.  (Reprint.)

Carniel, Jessica, “Bipolar (Un)patriots: national identity, ethnic identity and the 2006 FIFA World Cup,” paper presented at UnAustralia: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, 6-8 December 2006.  Available at: <http://www.unaustralia.com/electronicpdf/Uncarniel.pdf&gt;.

Carniel, Jessica, “Cloudland, Stronzoland, Brisbane: Urban Development and Ethnic Bildung in Venero Armanno’s Fiction,” Studi d’italianistica nell’Africa Australe: Italian Studies in Southern Africa – Special Issue: Representing Italian Diasporas in Australia: New Perspectives 18, no. 1 (2005): 122-42.

Carniel, Jessica, “A Conversation with Venero Armanno.” Studi d’italianistica nell’Africa Australe: Italian Studies in Southern Africa – Special Issue: Representing Italian Diasporas in Australia: New Perspectives, vol. 18, no. 1 (2005): 143-59.

Book reviews

Review of Nathalie Nguyen (ed.), New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact (Jefferson: McFarland, 2015), Australian Historical Studies, vol. 48, no. 1 (2017), pp. 131–132.

Review of Renate Howe, David Nichols and Graeme Davison, Trendyville: The Battle for Australia’s Inner Cities (Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2014), Queensland Review, vol. 23, no. 1 (2016), pp. 108-9.

Review of Tony Bennett (ed.), Challenging (the) humanities, (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013), Queensland Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (December 2014), pp. 235-236.

Review of William Hatherell, The Third Metropolis: imagining Brisbane through art and literature 1940-1970 (St Lucia: UQP, 2007), Australian Literary Studies, vol. 23, no. 4 (October 2008).

Authored media publications

Carniel, Jess, “Beheaded and exiled: the two previous King Charleses bookended the abolition of the monarchy,” Conversation, 12 September 2022.

Carniel, Jess, “Australia has a new head of state: what will Charles be like as king?”, Conversation, 9 September 2022. (Also translated into French as “Quel roi sera Charles III?”)

Carniel, Jess, “Ukraine’s Eurovision win shows us that despite arguments to the contrary, the contest has always been political,” Conversation, 16 May 2022.

Carniel, Jess, “Australia is out of Eurovision but don’t write off filmed performances: they could make for a greener, more global contest,” Conversation, 19 May 2021.

Carniel, Jess, “‘Schlager’, Scandi-pop and sparkles: your guide to the musical styles of Eurovision,” Conversation, 10 May 2018.

Carniel, Jess, “My favourite album: Pulp’s Different Class,” Conversation, 15 September 2017.

Carniel, Jess, “Fireworks, feelings, and fraught relations at Eurovision 2017”, Conversation, 14 May 2017.

Carniel, Jess, “Along with soulful gazes and key changes, politics is never far from Eurovision”, Conversation, 16 May 2016.

Carniel, Jess, “The proof is in the numbers, Europe really DID want us at Eurovision”, SBS website, 16 May 2016.

Carniel, Jess, “Sorry Graham Norton, but Australia’s participation in Eurovision is not “stupid””, SBS website, 12 May 2016.

Carniel, Jess, “Will the Americans ever understand Eurovision?”, SBS website, 10 May 2016.

Carniel, Jess, “Just why it is Australians are so fixated with Eurovision”, SBS website, 2 May 2016.

Carniel, Jess, “Wogan’s woes: The chequered legacy of Sir Terry Wogan”, SBS website, 19 April 2016.

Carniel, Jess and Damien Spry, “How ‘Asiavision’ could be a boon for cultural diplomacy”, Conversation, 11 April 2016.

Carniel, Jess, “A song to unite Europe? The gender politics of Eurovision still divide”, Conversation, 18 May 2015.