• Associate Professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland

Research Interests:

Eurovision, cultural diplomacy, Australian and global migration, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, cultural studies, popular culture, Australian studies, gender studies.

Most Recent Research Outcomes:

Carniel, Jessica,“Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest”, Media, Culture & Society, (2024).

Carniel, Jessica,“Killing Conchita: celebrity persona (de/re)construction as artistic transformation”, Celebrity Studies (2023), DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2023.2256429.

Carniel, Jessica and Persian, Jayne, "Wogs as work: humour as ethnic entrepreneurship and convivial labour." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 37, no. 4 (2023), pp. 480-493,

Carniel, Jessica, Emmerson, Mark and Gehrmann, Richard, "Inquiry-based learning as an adaptive signature pedagogy in international relations," International Studies Perspectives (2023),

• 2023–present Associate professor, University of Southern Queensland
• 2024–2026 Research fellow, Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California
• 2018–2023 Senior lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
• 2013–2017 Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland

• 2006 University of Melbourne, PhD

• Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
• International Australian Studies Association

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