Katrina Jaworski

APrf Katrina Jaworski

Associate Professor

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

I'm a social philosopher whose work is situated in cultural studies, continental philosophy and gender studies. I'm one of the key global founders and leaders of critical suicide studies, which was established in 2016. My research examines the agency of suicide, focusing on topics such as gender, sexuality, youth and/or rurality. My research also focuses on challenging the relationship between ethics and morality in understanding suicide as an existential phenomenon. I'm very experienced in qualitative research methods such as interviewing, participant observation (ethnographic), focus groups, and participatory workshops, and creative methods such as poetry and autoethnographic writing. My work often draws on theory, both as a descriptive and heuristic tool of analysis. I also research Rwandan genocide, philosophy of dying bodies, and trauma. At times I research gender in higher education, the cultural politics of thinking and trauma and affect. I love teaching cultural studies because I see the discipline as applied philosophy.

Suicide and gender,Philosophy of death and dying,Queer youth suicide,Performativity,Feminist philosophies, post-structuralist and postmodernist theories,Visual culture,Cultural politics of violence,Postcolonial thought

Year Citation
2026 Bryant, L., McFarland, B., & Jaworski, K. (2026). Farming Women's Experience of Isolation: Creating Affective Connections Through Material Entanglements. Sociologia Ruralis, 66(2), 13 pages.
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2025 Luckman, S., Jaworski, K., Ghosh, R., Kosmina, B., Richards, S., Stratton, J., & Pacella, J. (2025). Culture in practice. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 39(1), 1-12.
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2022 Jaworski, K. (2022). The ethics of facing the other in suicide. Health, 26(1), 47-65.
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2021 Alasuutari, V., Whitestone, S. B., Goret Hansen, L., Jaworski, K., Doletskaya, O., & Zubillaga Pow, J. (2021). What do we talk about when we talk about queer death? 2/LGBTQ+ necropolitics. Whatever, 4, 599-630.
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2020 Jaworski, K. (2020). The gift of Dr Michael Noble. Writing from Below, 5(1), 1-12.
2020 Jaworski, K. (2020). Towards ethics of wonder and generosity in critical suicidology. Social Epistemology, 34(6), 589-600.
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2020 Jaworski, K., & Scott, D. G. (2020). At the limits of suicide: the bad timing of the gift. Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, 34(6), 577-588.
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2020 Jaworski, K., & Marsh, I. (2020). Knowledge is made for cutting: an introduction. Social Epistemology, 34(6), 527-532.
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2020 Alves, F., Jaworski, K., & Butler, S. (2020). Introduction: Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge. Madness in Plural Contexts Crossing Borders Linking Knowledge, vii-xii.
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2019 Franklin, A., Neves, B. B., Hookway, N., Patulny, R., Tranter, B., & Jaworski, K. (2019). Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging. Journal of sociology, 55(1), 124-143.
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2019 Hjelmeland, H., Jaworski, K., Knizek, B. L., & Marsh, I. (2019). Problematic advice from suicide prevention experts. Ethical human psychology and psychiatry, 20(2), 79-85.
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2019 Araoz, G., Alves, F., & Jaworski, K. (2019). Introduction. Rethinking Madness Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections, vii-xii.
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2016 Deuter, K., & Jaworski, K. (2016). Assuming vulnerability: ethical considerations in a multiple-case study with older suicide attempters. Research ethics, 3(3-4), 1-12.
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2016 Deuter, K., Procter, N., Evans, D., & Jaworski, K. (2016). Suicide in older people: revisioning new approaches. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 25(2), 144-150.
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2016 Jaworski, K. (2016). Divorcing suicidology, ethically. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 5(2), 18-25.
2014 Jaworski, K. (2014). The breath of life and death. Cultural Critique: an international journal of cultural studies, 86(Winter 2014), 65-91.
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2014 Jaworski, K. (2014). The breath of life and death. Cultural Critique, 86, 65-91.
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2012 Bryant, L., & Jaworski, K. (2012). Minding the gaps: examining skill shortages in Australian rural non-agricultural workplaces. Journal of management and organization, 18(4), 499-515.
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2012 Jaworski, K. (2012). The methodological crisis of theorising African genocide : thinking with Agamben and Butler. African identities, 10(3), 349-365.
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2011 Bryant, L., & Jaworski, K. (2011). Gender, embodiment and place: The gendering of skills shortages in the Australian mining and food and beverage processing industries. HUMAN RELATIONS, 64(10), 1345-1367.
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2010 Jaworski, K. (2010). The gender-ing of suicide. Australian feminist studies, 25(63), 47-61.
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2010 Ormsby, J., Stanley, M., & Jaworski, K. (2010). Older men's participation in community-based men's sheds programmes. Health and social care in the community, 18(6), 607-613.
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2010 Stanley, M., Moyle, W., Ballantyne, A., Jaworski, K., Corlis, M., Oxlade, D., . . . Young, B. (2010). Nowadays you don't even see your neighbours: loneliness in the everyday lives of older Australians. Health and social care in the community, 18(4), 407-414.
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2010 Jaworski, K. (2010). The author, agency and suicide. Social identities, 16(5), 675-687.
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2010 Jaworski, K. (2010). The male preserve of martyrdom. Feminist media studies, 10(2), 119-133.
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2008 Jaworski, K. (2008). 'Elegantly Wasted': The celebrity deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates. Continuum : journal of media and cultural studies, 22(6), 777-791.
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2008 Jaworski, K. (2008). Don't you know how to speak English properly? : language and writing in the production of a doctoral dissertation. Journal of educational enquiry, 8(2), 38-50.
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2003 Jaworski, K. (2003). Suicide and gender: reading suicide through Butler's notion of performativity. Journal of Australian studies, 27(76), 137-146.
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Year Citation
2026 Jaworski, K., & Scott, D. G. (2026). Corpse Poetry, Dead Bodies and Linguistic Survival in Suicide. In Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death (pp. 117-130).
2024 Jaworski, K., & Marsh, I. (2024). Introduction: Knowledge is made for cutting. In Source details - Title: Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies (Vol. 34, pp. 1-5). US: Routledge.
2024 Jaworski, K., & Scott, D. G. (2024). At the limits of suicide: the bad timing of the gift. In K. Jaworski, & I. Marsh (Eds.), Source details - Title: Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies (pp. 51-62). US: Routledge.
2024 Jaworski, K. (2024). Rethinking the gendering of agency in male suicide: more-than-human connections in violence against the self. In K. Seymour (Ed.), Source details - Title: Interconnecting the Violences of Men: Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism (pp. 153-170). UK: Taylor and Francis.
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2022 Jaworski, K. (2022). The gendering of suicidal agency in Jeffrey Eugenides': the virgin suicides. In J. R. Velasco (Ed.), Source details - Title: Suicide in Modern Literature: Social Causes, Existential Reasons, and Prevention Strategies (pp. 47-71). Switzerland: Springer.
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2021 Jaworski, K. (2021). The relationship between ethics and ontology in researching suicide. In B. L. Knizek, & S. H. Klempe (Eds.), Source details - Title: Foundation of Ethics-Based Practices: Annals of Theoretical Psychology (pp. 51-67). Switzerland: Springer.
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2020 Jaworski, K. (2020). A longing to be heard as the longing to die lingers - an afterword. In D. G. Scott (Ed.), Source details - Title: Voicing Suicide (pp. 163-184). Canada: Ekstasis Editions.
2020 Alves, F., Jaworski, K., & Butler, S. (2020). Introduction: Madness in plural contexts: crossing borders, linking knowledge. In Source details - Title: Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge (pp. vii-xii). Netherlands: Brill.
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2019 Jaworski, K., & Broz, L. (2019). Reframing the Self and Agency in Suicide: A Composite Theoretical Approach. In Searching for the Words how can We Tell Our Stories of Suicide (pp. 111-120). BRILL.
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2017 Jaworski, K. (2017). 100 days of butchering: (re)presenting the Rwandan genocide 20 years on. In B. West (Ed.), Source details - Title: War memory and commemoration (pp. 107-128). UK: Routledge.
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2016 Jaworski, K. (2016). ‘What it Means to See’: Reading Gender in Medical Examinations of Suicide. In Abjectly Boundless Boundaries Bodies and Health Work (pp. 49-65).
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2016 Jaworski, K., & Scott, D. G. (2016). Understanding the unfathomable in suicide: poetry, absence, and the corporeal body. In J. White (Ed.), Source details - Title: Critical suicidology: transforming suicide research and prevention for the 21st century (pp. 209-228). Canada: University of British Columbia Press.
2015 Jaworski, K. (2015). Suicide, agency and the limits of power. In L. Broz, & D. Munster (Eds.), Source details - Title: Suicide and agency: Anthropological perspectives on self-destruction, personhood and power (pp. 183-201). US: Ashgate.
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2015 Bryant, L., & Jaworski, K. (2015). Introduction: Daring to Walk on the Grass. In L. Bryant, & K. Jaworski (Eds.), Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass (1st edition ed., pp. 1-18). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc..
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2015 Jaworski, K. (2015). Stuck Between Two Languages: The Ethics of Writing a Doctoral Dissertation in the English Language. In L. Bryant, & K. Jaworski (Eds.), Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass (1st edition ed., pp. 71-84). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc..
2015 Jaworski, K., & Bryant, L. (2015). Conclusion: Walking on the Grass 84 Years Later. In L. Bryant, & K. Jaworski (Eds.), Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass (1st edition ed., pp. 121-134). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc..
2015 Beasley, C., & Jaworski, K. (2015). Passionate Activism as Academic Labor: The Emotional Body of Pedagogical Politics. In L. Bryant, & K. Jaworski (Eds.), Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass (1st edition ed., pp. 35-51). Langam, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc..
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2015 Jaworski, K., & Bryant, L. (2015). Conclusion: Walking on the Grass Eighty-Four Years Later. In Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses Walking on the Grass (pp. 121-134).
2013 Jaworski, K. (2013). Reframing the mad intentions of those who suicide. In G. Araoz, F. Alves, & K. Jaworski (Eds.), Source details - Title: Rethinking madness: interdisciplinary and multicultural reflections (pp. 111-127). UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
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2013 Jaworski, K., & Scott, D. (2013). Understanding the unfathomable in suicide: poetry, absence and the corporeal body. In M. Kulp, N. Korteling, & K. McKay (Eds.), Source details - Title: Searching for the words: how can we tell our stories of suicide? (pp. 143-154). UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
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2013 Jaworski, K. (2013). Standing at the edge of the abyss: ethics of vulnerability, love and forgiveness. In H. Goodman, B. V. Russo, & J. Zózimo (Eds.), Source details - Title: Beyond These Walls: Confronting Madness in Society, Literature and Art (2 ed., pp. 189-196). Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
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2013 Jaworski, K., & Broz, L. (2013). Reframing the self and agency in suicide: a composite theoretical approach. In M. Kulp, N. Korteling, & K. McKay (Eds.), Source details - Title: Searching for the words: How can we tell our stories of suicide? (pp. 1-10). UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
2012 Jaworski, K. (2012). The visibility of difference: gender and suicide in psy-knowledge. In G. Araoz (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mad/sad/bad : philosophical, political, poetic and artistic reflections on the history of madness (1 ed., pp. 105-116). Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
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2012 Jaworski, K. (2012). The 'mad' intentions of those who suicide. In F. Alves, K. Jaworski, & S. Butler (Eds.), Source details - Title: Madness in Plural Contexts: Crossing Borders, Linking Knowledge (pp. 31-41). UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
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2012 Alves, F., Jaworski, K., & Butler, S. (2012). Introduction: madness in plural contexts. In F. Alves, K. Jaworski, & S. Butler (Eds.), Source details - Title: Madness in plural contexts: crossing borders, linking knowledge (pp. vii-xi). UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
2012 Jaworski, K. (2012). 'What it means to see': reading gender in medical examinations of suicide. In T. Rudge, & D. Holmes (Eds.), Source details - Title: Abjectly boundless: boundaries, bodies and health work (pp. 50-65). UK: Taylor & Francis.
2010 Jaworski, K. (2010). What it means to see : reading gender in medical examinations of suicide. In T. Rudge, & D. Holmes (Eds.), Source details - Title: Abjectly boundless : boundaries, bodies and health work (pp. 49-65). UK: Ashgate.
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2005 Jaworski, K. (2005). (Un)desirable acts of death: gendered truths in the cultural production of suicide. In Corporate body:University of South AustraliaSource details - Title: Corporeal Inscriptions: Representations of the Body in Cultural and Literary Texts and Practices (pp. 209-220). Poland: Nicholas Copernicus University Press.

Year Citation
2012 Stanley, M., Garnham, B., & Jaworski, K. (2012). The meaning of the shed space for older Australian men. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL.

Courses I teach

  • HUMS 3048 Space, Place and Culture (2024)
  • HUMS 3049 Power and Resistance: 1900 - Present (2024)
  • HUMS 3050 Researching Culture (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2026 Co-Supervisor br />Young women's autobiographical accounts of attempted suicide: a narrative analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Paloma Cesare
2026 Co-Supervisor Existential Dimensions of Trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s Novels and Therapeutic Discourse Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Kelly Rae Olander
2025 Co-Supervisor Intentional positive spillover of environmentally relevant practices from communal hubs to homes - Doctorate Part Time Mrs Gabriele Beate Lettice
2025 Co-Supervisor Silence is my first language: an exploration of childhood trauma and its effects into adulthood in poetic voice Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Bethany Evans
2025 Co-Supervisor Intentional positive spillover of environmentally relevant practices from communal hubs to homes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Gabriele Beate Lettice
2022 Co-Supervisor Young women's autobiographical accounts of attempted suicide: a narrative analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Paloma Cesare
2020 Principal Supervisor Queering the fat body: The impact of fatness on queer identities Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Victoria Knight
2016 Principal Supervisor The agency of food waste - Doctorate Part Time Mr Tim Coventry

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Sound-pressure-intensities: creative and technical responses to sound in South Australian environments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Philip van Hout
2016 - 2026 Principal Supervisor The agency of food waste Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Timothy Coventry
2014 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Smearing ash on the wall: the ineffable, violence and trauma in graphic narratives of war Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jeanne-Marie Viljoen
2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor The framing of the agency of India's reproductive subjects Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Rupa Ghosh
2013 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Spatial stories: mythologising Pacific young men in Australia’s print media Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Linda Ghys
2013 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Attempted suicide in older people: within and between the meaning of protection Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Kate Deuter
2013 - 2015 Co-Supervisor The concealed debate: a feminist exploration of childhood sexual abuse and its perceived role in the aetiology and maintenance of eating disorders in women Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Lisa Hodge

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