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I am Associate Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra and co-convenor of the Institute of Australian Geographer's (IAG) Cultural Geography Study Group.
I completed a PhD in cultural geography at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, under the supervision of Doctor Nina Williams and Professor JD Dewsbury. My research uses experimental qualitative research as informed by non-representational theory, feminism, post- and...view more
I am Associate Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra and co-convenor of the Institute of Australian Geographer's (IAG) Cultural Geography Study Group.
I completed a PhD in cultural geography at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, under the supervision of Doctor Nina Williams and Professor JD Dewsbury. My research uses experimental qualitative research as informed by non-representational theory, feminism, post- and de-colonial theory and the process philosophies of Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, to understand how Western and non-Western ideas encounter one another. 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.
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 of the IAG (2023, 2025), the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers (2022) and the Association of American Geographers (2024).
I am currently completing a co-authored monograph on 'Process and Place: Doing Speculative Research with Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze & Glissant' with David Rousell (RMIT) and Nina Williams (UNSW).
I have a range of experience working in higher education and the arts and fashion, in both Australia and the UK. I have worked as a RA on three projects at UNSW about Walkability (Faculty SEED grant across Engineering and Science), the Aeroptropolis and Western Sydney Airport (with Angela Smith), and Minor Relations (with Nina Williams). I have taught across all three years of undergraduate in addition to Masters courses at UNSW Canberra, UNSW ADA, Australian Catholic University and Macquarie University. I have peer reviewed articles for Transactions, Social and Cultural Geography, Geoforum and Folk Knowledge Place.
My Grants
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2026 (Unsuccessful)
My Qualifications
Cultural Geography PhD, UNSW Canberra - 2021-2026 (Ria de Groot Prize)
Geography Honours (Arts), UNSW Canberra - 2020-2021 (First Class Honours)
Geographical Sciences BSc, University of Bristol - 2025-2018 (First Class Honours)
My Awards
Ria de Groot Prize 2025 for best performance by a female postgraduate student at UNSW Canberra (2025)
Institute of Australian Geographers Award for Dissertation Excellence (2025)
Challenging Boundaries in Fashion, Textiles and Media Category Winner at UNSW 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)
My Research Activities
PUBLICATIONS
Jeyasingh, T. E. (forthcoming) Ones Less Filial and More Trembling: Glissantian Lines and the More-Than-Human Politics of Citation. Progress in Human Geography.
Jeyasingh T. E. (forthcoming) Glissant’s opacitic and opacitic-reading: looking at, understanding, and engaging differently with )minority( texts. In: J. Brigstocke, F. Ferretti, E. Hayes & M. Lamego, eds. The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Geography.
Rousell, D., Williams, N. & Jeyasingh, T. E. (forthcoming) Process and Place: Doing Speculative Research with Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze and Glissant. Routledge.
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.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
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]
TEACHING
ZPEM1201 Geography 1A: Power, Nature, Identity
ZPEM1202 Geography 1B: Urban Geography and Geopolitics
ZPEM2213 Art and Science of Doing Geography - Qualitative Research Methods
ZPEM2207 Social Geography
ZPEM3208 Geographic Research Methods
ZPEM3202 Cultural Geography
ARTS3245 Urban Environments
EVENTS
Invited seminar at UNSW 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 UNSW 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 UNSW Canberra (2022)
‘Édouard Glissant, affirmation and Relation’ workshop organised for Cultural Geography department at UNSW Canberra (2021)
Category winner for paper presented in ‘Challenging Boundaries in Fashion, Textiles and Media at UNSW HASS HDR conference (2021)
Selected and attended Professor Rose Braidotti’s Posthuman and New Materialism summer school at Utrecht University (2021)
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Projects interested in: cultural geography, process thinking, Glissant, Deleuze & Guattari, anti- and post-colonial theories, geographies of film, fashion and creative practices
My Engagement
https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/09/graduation-2025--going-beyond-maps-and-monuments- Article discussing my PhD at graduation (2025)
https://www.unsw.edu.au/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
I have taught across all three years of Human Geography undergraduate teaching here at UNSW Canberra, as well as working at UNSW Arts Design Architecture, Australian Catholic University and Macquarie, focusing on cultural and qualitative geographic research methods, but also sustainability, ethics, and physical geography.
I designed and led an Environmental Humanities Major course for UNSW 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).
Contact
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2960-9517