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Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen

Job title: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:  BA Hons (Uni Melb), Grad. Dip. Ed. (Uni. Canb) PhD (UniSA)
 
Location:Clayton, building 6, room 344
Phone:+61 3 990 52181
 
Email:
MaryLou.Rasmussen@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:  52779

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Teaching commitment

Research Interests

Sex Education

Secularism

Values Education

Sexualities and Schooling

Queer theory and education

Gender and Education

Qualitative Research in Education

Globalisation, Identities and education

Professional Associations

  • Australian Association for Research in Education
  • American Educational Research Association
  • Cultural Studies Association of Australia

Supervision

Doctoral dissertations currently being supervised:

A feminist mode of literary teaching developed through Sarah Kofmans Method of Symptomatic Reading - Vikki Pollard

(Co-supervisor with Alex Kostogriz)

Homosociality and Australian Womens Football - Kellie Sanders

Towards Trans Cultural Competency: Transgendered and gender non-conforming clients experiences of Psychotherapy in Australia Nat Lysenko

(Co-supervisor with Janette Simmonds)

The following students have completed research projects under my supervision.

Claire Charles Awarded 2009

PhD Knowing girls: objectification, girl power and girls resistance at school

Karen Lambert Awarded 2006

PhD Place, sexualities and community

(Co-supervisors Prof Jan Wright & Dr Valerie Harwood - University of Wollongong)

Fatema Hossain Awarded 2008

MEd Minor Thesis Good Governance and the role of leadership: A Case Study of an Australian University

Cameron Pyle - Awarded 2008

MEd Minor Thesis Envisioning Science Education: Derek Hodsons Science Curriculum through the lens of Charles Taylors Moral Philosophy

Mi Hwa Kweon Awarded 2008

MEd Minor Thesis Gender and Cyberbullying

Laura Silan Awarded 2004

M.Ed Minor Thesis Health and Physical Education Curriculum as tool for investigating gender identity - Deakin University

THESES EXAMINED

External Reports

Kellie Burns, Blood, Sweat and Queers: (re) imagining global queer citizenship at the Sydney 2002 gay games PhD Thesis. (Oct, 2007)

Vikki Fraser, University of Western Sydney A willing state of Bondage: the internet development of lesbigay self, Honours Thesis. (Nov, 2005)

Internal Reports

Linda Stanton, Monash University, What does engaging pedagogy look like in my classroom? M.Ed.Research (Aug, 2005)

Publications

Books

Rasmussen, M. (2006) Becoming Subjects: A Study of Sexualities and Secondary Schooling, Routledge, New York.

Edited Books

Rasmussen, M., Rofes, E. & Talburt, S. (2004) Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion and Insubordination in and out of Schools, Palgrave, New York.

Journal Articles

Rasmussen, M. & Harwood, V. (2009) Young people, education and unlawful non-citizenship: Spectral sovereignty and governmentality in Australia, Globalisation, Societies and Education 7 (1) 5 22.

Rasmussen, M. (forthcoming) Beyond Gender Identity, Gender and Education.

Rasmussen, M. (2007) Prescriptions for Sex and Gender in School Architecture, Redress: Journal of the Australian Association of Women Educators, 16 (1), 17-23.

Harwood, V. & Rasmussen, M. (2007) Scrutinizing sexuality and psychopathology: A Foucauldian inspired strategy for qualitative data analysis, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 20 (1), 31-50.

Rasmussen, M. (2006) Play School, Melancholia and the Politics of Recognition, British Journal of Sociology of Education 27 (4), 473-487.

Rasmussen, M. (2005) Melancholy, Grief and Pleasure: Unsettling passionate attachments to subjection, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 21, (2), 25-44.

Book Chapters

Rasmussen, M. & Preston, L. (forthcoming) Journeying to the Frinj of Outdoor Education, in Quinlivan, K., Boyask, R. & Kaur, B. Educational Enactments in a Globalised World: Intercultural Conversations, Sense Publishing: Netherlands.

Harwood, V. & Rasmussen, M. (forthcoming) Agency & Critique: Subjectivation, the Subject and Truth Agency After Foucault, Maureen Ford (Ed.) Springer, Netherlands.

Hickey-Moody, A.C. & Rasmussen, M.L. (2009). The sexed Subject In-Between Deleuze and Butler. In Deleuze and Queer Theory Eds. (Eds.) Storr & Nigianni. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Hickey-Moody, A., Rasmussen, M. & Harwood, V. (2008) How to be a real lesbian: The Pink Sofa & some fictions of identity, Chapter in S. Driver (ed) Queer Youth Cultures, SUNY, New York, pp.123-138.

Rasmussen, M., Mitchell, J. & Harwood, V. (2007) The queer story of the heterosexual questionnaire. In Nelson Rodriguez and William Pinar (eds.) Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Teacher Education, Peter Lang, New York.

Encyclopaedia Entries

Rasmussen, M. (2006) Gender Identity Disorder, Encyclopedia of HomoSexualities Education and Youth, edited by James T. Sears, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT.

Rasmussen, M. (2006) Judith Butler, Encyclopedia of HomoSexualities Education and Youth, edited by James T. Sears, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT.

Kenway, J & Rasmussen, M ( 2005 ) Queer as Folk Youth, Education, and Sexualities. An International Encyclopedia (pp. 676-680) Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press 2 0-313-32755-6

Other Publications

Rasmussen, M. (forthcoming) Book Review, Alldred, P. and David, M. (2007) Get Real About Sex: the politics and practice of sex education. Maidenhead: Open University Press. Gender and Education.

Rasmussen, M. (2008) Book Review, Youdell, D. (2006) Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities. Dortrecht, The Netherlands: Springer,. Policy Futures in Education 6 (3) See www.wwwords.co.uk/PFIE.