Katrina Jaworski

Katrina Jaworski is an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Adelaide University, Australia. Her research focuses on the agency of suicide, with attention to gender, sexuality, relational ethics and poetry. Sometimes she also researches and writes on Rwandan genocide, the philosophy of dying bodies, trauma and the cultural politics of thinking. Alongside numerous articles and book chapters, to date she has sole-authored The Gender of Suicide (2016) and co-edited Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Dissertations (2015), Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections (2020) and Reframing Suicide: The Development of Critical Suicide Studies (2024). She has forthcoming book chapters in The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide (2026) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death (2026).