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Teaching commitmentBiographyDr. Claire Charles is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education where she teaches units relating to sociology of education and language and literacy education. Prior to taking up academic work she was a secondary school English teacher in rural Victoria. Her doctoral study investigated opportunities for identity available to secondary school girls in a cultural climate of 'girl power', and how young women engage the contradictory messages about empowerment available to them. She has also worked on research projects relating to language and literacy, and young people, gender and new media.
Research InterestsMy research interests gather around identity and social inclusion within education. Some specific interests are:
'Girl power' and new femininities in secondary education
Popular culture, media and feminism
The gendered dimensions of young people's engagement with new media
Language, literacy practices and their intersections with gender
Professional Associations
- The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- The Gender and Education Association (GEA)
- The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
PublicationsMost recent:
Charles, C. (2009). Confident, sexy and successful? Or objectified and at risk? Keynote address, Teenage Girls Conference, Melbourne, May 1.
Charles, C. (in press). Complicating hetero-femininities: young women, sexualities and 'girl power' at school. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Charles, C. (in press). Deleting the male gaze?: Tech-savvy girls and new femininities in secondary school classrooms. In C. Carter-Ching and B. Foley (Eds.) Constructing the self in a digital world. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Charles, C. (2009). Exploring representations of femininity in elite girls' schooling. Research seminar presented at the University of Exeter on March 18.
Charles, C. (2009). Smart, successful and sexy? Popular constructions of femininity in the textual practices of elite girls' schooling. Paper presented at the Gender and Education Association 7th International Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, March 27.
Charles, C. (2008). 'Go Grrrl!': Constructions of femininity in the textual practices of elite girls' schooling. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Brisbane, December 2.
Charles, C. (2008). "I don't know why but I'm really good at a lot of things": Ja'mie King as a public pedagogy of young femininity. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Brisbane, December 4.
Other publications:
Refereed journal articles:
Charles, C. (2007) Digital media and 'girling' at an elite girls' school, Learning, Media and Technology, 32 (2) pp 135-147.
Charles, C. (2007) Exploring girl power: Gender, literacy and the textual practices of young women attending an elite school, English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 6 (2), pp 72-88.
Beavis, C. & Charles, C. (2007) Would the 'real' girl gamer please stand up? Gender, LAN cafes and the reformulation of the girl gamer, Gender and Education, 19 (6) pp 691-705.
Beavis, C. & Charles, C. (2005) Challenging notions of gendered game play: Teenagers playing The Sims, Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 26(3), pp 355-367.
Doecke, B. Kostogriz, A. & Charles, C. (2005) Heteroglossia: a space for critical language awareness? English Teaching Practice and Critique, 3 (3), pp 29-42.
Book chapters:
Beavis, C. & Charles, C. (2005) Writing, English and digital culture in B. Doecke & G. Parr (eds) Writing=Learning, Kensington Gardens: AATE, pp 229-246.
Professional journal articles:
Charles, C. (2006) Cultural politics in the English classroom: Textually dangerous territory? Idiom, Journal of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, 1(1), pp 24-31.
Conference and seminar papers:
Charles, C. (2007). "New femininities: education and work", paper presented at the ESRC Seminar Series on New Femininities: post feminism and sexual citizenship, Gender Institute, London School of Economics, UK, January 26.
Charles, C. (2006). Girling, popular culture and schooling: The challenge of liminal spaces, Paper presented at the symposium 'Space, place, young people and social transformation: Interdisciplinary imaginings', Culture, Language and Diversity Research Strength, Faculty of Education, Monash University, 21st July
Charles, C. (2006). Producing postfeminist subjects? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Monash Education Research Community, Monash University, 28th June
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