Wiradjuri woman Dr Jeanine Leane from south -west New South Wales, grew up on a sheep farm near Gundagai and was educated in Gundagai, Wagga Wagga, Armidale, and Canberra. In 1983, Jeanine was conferred her BA in Literature and History from the University of New England, Armidale. And, in 1984 was awarded a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Canberra. After a long career in teaching at secondary and tertiary levels, Jeanine was conferred her PhD in the literature of Aboriginal representation by the University of Technology, Sydney in 2011. Jeanine had been an Indigenous Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and recently held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra. Jeanine had also been the National Coordinator for BlackWords during 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Jeanine became a recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery Award for a her project 'Reading the Nation: A Critical Study of Aboriginal/Settler Representations in the Contemporary Australian Literary Landscape'.
In 2010, Jeanine's first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: AD 1887-1961 won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry from the Australian Poets' Union, after it had been shortlisted in the David Unaipon Awards in 2006. Subsequently, Jeanine's manuscript 'Purple Threads' had won the David Unaipon Award for 2010 at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, and the following year was published by the University of Queensland Press (UQP). 'Purple Threads' was also shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize, and the Victorian Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing.
- Included are other works, participation in festivals and interviews:
Book Reviews:
- Book Review: 'Indigenous Victorians: Repressed, Resourceful and Respected Lynette Russell and John Arnold', Eds (2010), in Australian Aboriginal Studies Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. No. 2, 2011: 118-120.
- Book Review: 'Transgressions critical Australian Indigenous histories in Australian Aboriginal Studies', Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, No. 2, 2009: 135-136.
Articles:
- 'Teaching Aboriginal Studies: Whitewashing Black Values'. The International Journal of Learning, Volume 11, 2005.
- Poetry and Short Stories:
- 'Lamentations of a Lapsed Marxist'. ANU Reporter Magazine, Australian National University Press, 1995.
Conference Papers:
- 'White's Tribe', Centenary of Patrick White Conference, Hyderabad, 2012.
Major Exhibitions, Compositions, or performances:
- Panellist, Brisbane Writers Festival, Writing History and Memoir, 2012.
- Panellist, Adelaide Writers Festival, Aboriginal Fiction and History, 2013.
- Panellist, Bellingen Writers Festival, Twentieth Century Settler Representation of Aborigines, Writing Collective Memoir and Poetry as History, 2013.
- Interview with Genevieve Jacobs: Wiradjuri Author, Jeanine Leane, April 2012.
- Interview with Michael Cathcart, Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert, ABC Radio National, July 2012.
- Panellist, Panel discussion chaired by Louise Maher, Inside the Country of Kate Grenville, ABC Radio National, February, 2013.
