Julienne van Loon

{{short description|Australian author and academic (born 1970)}}

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Julienne van Loon (born 1970) is an Australian author and academic.{{cite web |url=http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/authors/639/Julienne+van+Loon |title=Fremantle Press : Authors : Julienne van Loon |website=www.fremantlepress.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409023517/http://fremantlepress.com.au/authors/639/Julienne+van+Loon |archive-date=2013-04-09}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=415 |title=Allen & Unwin – Author Display |publisher=Allenandunwin.com |access-date=2012-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504224230/https://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=415 |archive-date=2012-05-04 }}

In 2004 van Loon won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first book, Road Story.{{cite web |url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=415 |title=Allen & Unwin – Author Display |publisher=Allenandunwin.com |access-date=2012-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504224230/https://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=415 |archive-date=2012-05-04 }}

Van Loon lived in Perth, where she served as a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University from 1997 to 2015.{{cite web |url=http://find.curtin.edu.au/staff/info.cfm?public_id=7DDEDCB1F9B34B0F0ED0AD5B6C90F774 |title=Dr Julienne van Loon |publisher=Find.curtin.edu.au |date=15 September 2009 |access-date=2012-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121127092035/http://find.curtin.edu.au/staff/info.cfm?public_id=7DDEDCB1F9B34B0F0ED0AD5B6C90F774 |archive-date=2012-11-27 }} In September 2015 she was appointed Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University. She also served as the director of the Australian Society of Authors from 2015 to 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/v/van-loon-dr-julienne|title=Dr Julienne Van Loon – RMIT University|website=www.rmit.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2019-04-05}}

Her first non-fiction book The Thinking Woman,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1077788804|title=The thinking woman.|last=van Loon|first=Julienne, 1970–|publisher=Newsouth Books|year=2019|isbn=978-1742236308|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1077788804}} was developed from conversations she had with seven feminist thinkers (Laura Kipnis, Siri Hustvedt, Nancy Holmstrom, Helen Caldicott, Julia Kristeva, Marina Warner and Rosi Braidotti) and covers six themes (love, work, play, fear, wonder and friendship).{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-thinking-woman-review-julienne-van-loon-on-the-forces-that-shape-us-20190329-h1cyko.html|title=The Thinking Woman review: Julienne van Loon on the forces that shape us|last=Case|first=Jo|date=5 April 2019|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2019-04-05}}