Vanessa Castejon was born in Spain, grew up in France and was educated in Paris. For her Masters degree she studied feminism in Australia and for her PhD, under the supervision of Professor Monica Charlot, she concentrated on Australian Aboriginal issues. The title of her PhD was 'Aboriginal People and the Australian Political System: Marginalisation, Claims, Aboriginality.' She has studied at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, has published a book titled Les Aborigènes et l'apartheid politique Australien (2005), and contributed a chapter [outside the scope of AustLit] titled 'The Exoticism of the Musee du Quai Branly: a French Perspective on Aboriginal Australia' to the edited collection Imagined Australia: Reflections around the Reciprocal Construction of Identity between Australia and Europe (2009).
