Dr Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh
Associate Lecturer
Cultural Geography PhD, 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra - 2021-2026 (Ria de Groot Prize)
Geography Honours (Arts), 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra - 2020-2021 (First Class Honours)
Geographical Sciences BSc, University of Bristol - 2025-2018 (First Class Honours)
91É«ÇéƬ Canberra
School of Science
My research is interested in the non-representational and postcolonial geographies of thinkers and ideas, and usesÌýexperimental theoretical methods informed by Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to develop conceptualÌýtools for thinking and living differently on the 21st century's trembling earth. I am especially interested in spaces often backgrounded in academic work such as reading, writing and referencing. I am currently co-convenor of the IAG Cultural Geography Study Group.
An insight into these questions has undoubtedly been shaped by a British and South Asian mixed-race identity, which I understand as providing a perspective onto how all identity is expressive of difference. I completed my PhD at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra under the supervision of Nina Williams and JD Dewsbury which explored the relationship between Glissant, Deleuze and Guattari to understand how Western and non-Western ideas can engage with each other is less hierarchical ways.
My work has been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, in the edited collection Speculative Geographies, and has been presented at a recent workshop on 'Anti-Oedpial Geographies' held at Christ Church College, Oxford University, as well as at meetings ofÌýthe Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers (2026, 2022), the IAG (2025, 2023),Ìýand the Association of American Geographers (2024). I am currently completing a co-authored monograph on 'Process and Place: A Field Guide for Speculative Research' with David Rousell (RMIT) and Nina Williams (91É«ÇéƬ).Ìý
I have taught across all three years of undergraduate in addition to Masters courses at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra, 91É«ÇéƬ ADA, Australian Catholic University and Macquarie University. I have worked as a RA on projects at 91É«ÇéƬ about Walkability (Faculty SEED grant across Engineering and Science), the Aeroptropolis and Western Sydney Airport (with Angela Smith), and Minor Relations (with Nina Williams).
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E-mail
Location
B22 R331
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
91É«ÇéƬ Research Infrastructure Scheme (2027) Human Observation Lab Infrastructure for Multi-School Research | Andres, J., Cadwell, S, Chen, W., Mo, H., Kankanamge, E. H., Chakrabortty, R. K., Hu, J., Kermanshahi, S. K., Ghasrikhouzani, M., Connor, J.,ÌýRoberts, T.,ÌýJeyasingh, T. E.,ÌýTurhan, U., Lapworth, A. & Renic, N. (Awaiting outcome)
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2027 (Awaiting outcome)
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Ria de Groot Prize 2025 for best performance by a female postgraduate student at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra (2025)
Institute of Australian Geographers Award for Dissertation Excellence (2025)
Challenging Boundaries in Fashion, Textiles and Media Category Winner at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra HASS HDR Conference (2021)
Jim Rose Prize for Best Paper at the Geographical Society of New South Wales Honours & Masters Conference (2020)
Best Qualitative Human Geography Dissertation Prize, University of Bristol (2018)
PUBLICATIONS
Jeyasingh, T. E. (accepted, forthcoming) Ones Less Filial and More Trembling: Glissantian Lines and the More-Than-Human Politics of Citation.ÌýProgress in Human Geography.
Jeyasingh T. E. (accepted, forthcoming)ÌýGlissant’s opacitic and opacitic-reading: looking at, understanding, and engaging differently with )minority( texts.ÌýIn: J. Brigstocke, F. Ferretti, E. Hayes & M. Lamego, eds.ÌýThe Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Geography.
Rousell, D., Williams, N. & Jeyasingh, T. E.Ìý(submitted, under review) Process and Place: A field guide for Speculative ResearchÌýRoutledge.
Jeyasingh, T. E. (2025) Édouard Glissant and the Importance of Reading Well: Opacitic Reading as Geographic Method. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50(2).
Jeyasingh, T. E. & Sirois, C. (2023) Thought begins, again, anew [Exhibition Essay - Online]. CraftACT. Available from: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1347/8135/files/2023_Emerging_Contemporaries_exhibition_essay.pdf?v=1676868438
Jeyasingh, T. E. (2022) Foley and Fabulation: the Production of Screams, Sound and Subjectivity in Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio. In: N. Williams & T. Keating, eds. Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics. 2022, Palgrave Macmillan.
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CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference (2026) Panel on Joe Gerlach (2025)'sÌýSpinoza's Geographical Ethics.Ìý[Invited panelist]
Geographical Society New South Wales' VERA (2025) The becoming-philosopher of geography and the becoming-geography of philosophy (or: how to AND yourself to an IT and what happens in the process) [Paper]
Institute of Australian Geographers, Newcastle (2025) Emerging trends in relational thinking: opacities, virtualities and folds [Co-written paper with Dr Nina Williams]
Association of American Geographers, Honolulu (2024) Fabulations [Invited discussant]
Association of American Geographers, Honolulu (2024) How many ways are there to uproot a weed? Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: from Influence to Connection [Paper]
Association of American Geographers, Honolulu (2024) Planetary Inhabitations, Connections & Futures: agitating, creolising and crystallising more-than-human knowledges, solidarities and collaborative action. [Session organisers with Michele Lobo, Deakin University]
Institute of Australian Geographers, Perth (2023) Think-Practice Geographies. [Session organiser with Prof JD Dewsbury, Dr George Burdon & Dr Nina Williams]
Institute of Australian Geographers, Perth (2023) Glissantian Lines - Ones Less Filial and More Trembling: Towards an Opacitic Geography. [Paper]
Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference (2022) Édouard Glissant, Non-Representational Theory, & Opacitic-Reading as Geographical Method. [Paper]
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EVENTS
Invited seminar at 91É«ÇéƬ Environment and Society speakeasy (2025)
Invited seminar at Macquarie Geoplan series (2025)
Invited seminar at RMIT (2025)
'Anti-Oedipal Geographies?' invited presenter at workshop organised by Christ Church College, Oxford University (2025)
'Glissant's Poetics of Relation' reading group series organised for Cultural Geography department at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra (2024)
National Museum of Australia 'Édouard Glissant, Feminism Aphrodite/Venus: Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages' short talk as part of major exhibition (2023)
‘Assemblage Theory as Method’ workshop organised for Cultural Geography department at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra (2022)
‘Édouard Glissant, affirmation and Relation’ workshop organised for Cultural Geography department at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra (2021)
Category winner for paper presented in ‘Challenging Boundaries in Fashion, Textiles and Media at 91É«ÇéƬ HASS HDR conference (2021)
Selected and attended Professor Rose Braidotti’s Posthuman and New Materialism summer school at Utrecht University (2021)
/news/2025/09/graduation-2025--going-beyond-maps-and-monuments- Article discussing my PhD at graduation (2025)
/newsroom/news/2025/02/walkability-why-cities-should-step-up-to-become-more-pedestrian-friendly Article discussing my groups' research about the Walkability of Australian cities (2025)
My Teaching
ZPEM1201 Geography 1A: Situational Awareness, Environment & SocietyÌý
ZPEM1202 Geography 1B: Power, Geopolitics & Climate Change
ZPEM2213 Art and Science of Doing Geography - Qualitative Research Methods
ZPEM2207 Social GeographyÌý
ZPEM3208 Geographic Research Methods
ZPEM3202 Cultural GeographyÌý
ARTS3245 Urban EnvironmentsÌý
I have taught across all three years of Human Geography undergraduate teaching here at 91É«ÇéƬ Canberra, as well as working at 91É«ÇéƬ Arts Design Architecture, Australian Catholic University and Macquarie, focusing on cultural and qualitative geographic research methods, but also sustainability, ethics, and physical geography.Ìý
I currently supervise third-year students on Geographical Research Methods completing their final project based on the Singapore fieldschool
In 2025, I designed and led an Environmental Humanities Major course for 91É«ÇéƬ ADA course on 'Urban Environments' which focused on a series of de-centerings of urban knowledge from where it studies (expanding beyond the Global North), what it studies (introducing ideas about affect), who it studies (from subjects to subjectification) and how it conceptualises the urban (from thing to process). Ìý