Jessica Marian is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow contributing to the ARC Discovery Project Journals in Theory: Practices of Academic Judgement. Her interdisciplinary research investigates how institutions and infrastructures shape modern and contemporary knowledge production. She mainly specialises in literary theory, twentieth-century French philosophy, feminist theory, intellectual history, and periodical studies, with a secondary research and teaching interest in modernism, especially the modernist bookstore.

Her work has appeared in Angelaki (forthcoming 2026), New Literary History (2024), Australian Humanities Review (2024), and Australian Literary Studies (2023). She is currently developing two monographs. The first is a sole-authored book on the journal Critique, the genre of the review essay and the problem of style in post-war French thought. The second is a co-authored project titled What is an Expert?, in development with the Journals in Theory group for Nebraska University Press.

She was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles for the 2025 Fall Quarter. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Australian Society for French Studies (2025), University of Buffalo (2025-26), and Princeton University (2020). In 2026 she will take up the McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne.

She is co-convenor of the Critical Research Association Melbourne (CRAM) and co-editor of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.

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