Reviews & essays
- ‘YES: Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event’. Overland, Autumn (2025).
- ‘Australia in three books: π.O.’. Meanjin, Autumn (2024).
- ‘Elese Dowden Reviews Rebecca Hawkes and Claudia Jardine [Feature Review]‘. Cordite (2023).
- ‘If Selfies Could Talk. Review: Women I Know by Katerina Gibson‘. Meanjin, Autumn (2023).
- ‘The moral risk of taking things too seriously: Review, When A Punk Becomes A Spunk by Gareth Morgan‘. Overland, Summer (2022).
- ‘Boredom-core gore in neo-colonial Australia‘ Review: The Open by Lucy Van. Meanjin, Winter (2022).
- ‘Review: That Derrida whom I derided died by C.K. Stead‘. a fine line, Spring (2021).
- ‘Review: Amnesia Findings by Anna Jacobson‘. Rabbit Poetry, 35 (2021).
- ‘half-gallon quarter acre pavlova paradise‘, Strong Words 2, Dunedin: Otago University Press (2021).
Poetry
- ‘Pleasure : Owed’ in No Purchase 3 (2026).
- ‘Presents’ e-Chapbook in Cordite: Fit (2026).
- ‘knockoff gas leak’ in No Purchase 1 (2025).
- ‘ARS’ and ‘night time birds’ in Unusual Work 39 (2025).
- ‘📐😈’ in Te Pūrere: The Exodus (2025).
- ‘We Love Poem’. Landfall 249 (2025).
- ‘aye I‘. Landfall 248, (2024).
- ‘chronic swooners production era‘, Best of Australian Poems 2023. Australian Poetry. (2023).
- ‘the great outdoors‘, Going Down Swinging (2022).
- ‘girlboss leviathan timeslip‘, Cordite, NO THEME 11 (2022).
- ‘hot breath jesus‘ and ‘gross domestic product‘, Sweet Mammalian, 8th ed. (2021).
- ‘waiting‘. Kissing a Ghost: The New Zealand Poetry Society 2021 Anthology (2021).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- ‘Colonial mind, colonised body: structural violence and incarceration in Aotearoa‘, Parrhesia 30, (2019). Pp.88-102.
- ‘Othered body, obscene self(ie): A Sartrean reading of Kim Kardashian-West’, Hecate 43 (2), (2017). Pp.117-30.
Short courses
- ‘Moodboarding Melbourne’ for the Melbourne School of Literature, co-lectured with Gareth Morgan (2024).
- ‘The Poetics of Rebellion‘ for the Melbourne School of Literature (2022).
- ‘Locating the Posthumanities‘ for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (2021).
Conference presentations
- “Girlboss Leviathan: Femininity, Power and Romanticism after the 1960s” at the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy Conference, Deakin Geelong (2024).
- ‘”He do the police in different voices”: Colin Thiele, T.S. Eliot and the myth of the Fisher King’, for a panel entitled ‘Ern Malley and the Spectre of the ANZAC’ with Jonathan Dunk and Abigail Fisher for the Association for the Study of Australasian Literature, RMIT Melbourne (2023).
MEDIA
- “Girlboss Leviathan with Elese Dowden“, Concept Art Podcast (2024).
- The AUstralasian Posthumanities Podcast Series (2020-2022).
Theses
- A Camusian Ethic for Reconciliation: Forgiveness and Grief in Australia, New Zealand and Rwanda. PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland (2019).
- Global Poverty: Perspectives on Gender, Nationalism and Global Justice. MA Thesis, Department of Philosophy, The University of Auckland (2014).
