Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. Some of these words form academic research; others are read as journalism. Research interests span material culture and literature to include the often marginalised voices of postcolonial literature and contemporary craft / lifewriting and embodied knowledge / Zimbabwe and Indonesia / storytelling in the archive. Translations of writing have been published in French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. She is Professor of Craft and Editor-in-Chief of PARSE at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Visiting Professor at Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest and was the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020-2023). Current research is funded by Vetenskapsrådet (2025-2027) under the title "Carceral Craft: the material of oppression or expression?".
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