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Jenna

Lynn

Position: Lecturer
Affiliations: School of Education & Science; Christian Education Research Centre →

Biography

Career

Supervision

Outputs

Dr Jenna-Lee Lynn is a lecturer in the School of Education and Science at Avondale University with a PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Lynn has a demonstrated track record of higher education research, teaching and scholarship in Education and the Humanities. Her research in the field of Education combines a focus on curriculum studies across school and higher education sectors. Areas of interest include the Australian Curriculum and First Nations people's perspectives. In the field of Literature, Lynn's research focuses on contemporary Australian women's writing, specialising in trauma theory and eco-feminism as a lens for interpreting the fiction of Janette Turner Hospital, Alexis Wright and Lily Brett.


Awards & achievements

2002
Bachelor of Arts Award of Excellence
Avondale College
2002
Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Award of Excellence
Avondale College

Education

PhD
The University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Class I)
Avondale College

Supervision

Year Level Research Title Institution Supervisor Type
Current PhD

The development of a framework for the analysis and construction of an evangelical Christian philosophy of education

Avondale University Co-supervisor


Journal articles

  • 2025
    Kilgour, P., Morton, J., Northcote, M., Lynn, J-L., & Faull, A. (2025). Australia’s newest university and the Sustainable Development Goals. TEACH Journal of Christian Education, 19(1), 4-14. https://doi.org/10.55254/1835-1492.1552
  • 2023

    Lynn, J. (2023). Trauma, aboriginality and revisionary imaginings in Alexis Wright's carpentaria and Janette Turner Hospital's oyster. Journal of Australian Studies, 47(1), 142-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2131872

Conference Publications

  • 2013
    Lynn, J. (2013, July 3-5). Inscribed on the Body: Trauma, Photography and Mutational Collage in Janette Turner Hospital's Literature [Paper presentation]. ASAL Country Conference, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
  • 2010
    Lynn, J. (2010, November 8). The Moving and Sorrowful Voice that Cries Out: Trauma and Post-structuralism in Turner Hospital's Fiction. In J Gulddal (Chair), Open Postgraduate Forum [Symposium]. The University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Research Higher Degree Symposium, Newcastle, Australia.

Theses

  • 2019
    Lynn, J. (2019). Negotiating Dark Matter: Trauma and Ecology in the Fiction of Contemporary Australian Women Writers, [Doctoral dissertaion, The University of Newcastle]. https://openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/articles/thesis/Negotiating_dark_matter_trauma_and_ecology_in_the_fiction_of_contemporary_Australian_women_writers/29027936
  • 2002
    Lynn, J. (2002). Extension English, Postmodernism: Teachers, Students and Values [Unpublished Honours dissertation]. Avondale College.

Other

  • 2023
    Kilgour, P., Northcote, M., Morton, J., Lynn, J., & Faull, A. (2023, July 4-7). Staff awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals at Australia’s newest university: Professional learning implications [Abstract]. Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, Brisbane, Australia. https://conference.herdsa.org.au/2023/program/
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