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Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen

MaryLou.Rasmussen@Education.monash.edu.au

  
Title:
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:
BA Hons (Uni Melb), Grad. Dip. Ed. (Uni. Canb) PhD (UniSA)
   
Campus: Clayton
Building 6
Room 344
Telephone:
+61 3 990 52181
Fax:
52779
 
Teaching Commitment:
EDF3009
EDF6751
EDF2241
EDF6005
EDF6006
EDF6007

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Research Interests

Sex Education

School Architecture

Making Creative Spaces

Sexualities and Schooling

Queer theory and education

Gender and Education

Qualitative Research

Professional Associations

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

Supervision

Supervision - Doctoral Students

Claire Charles 'Girl Power: The schooling and popular culture nexus

Vikki Pollard - Pedagogy of Surprise

Kellie Sanders - Women unlike other women: An exploration of non-traditional performances of femininity and sexuality through womens Australian Rules football

Masters Students

Cameron Pyle Envisioning Science Education: Derek Hodson's Science Curriculum through the len's of Charles Taylor's Moral Philosophy

Rehana Hossain - Governance in Higher Education

Roger Weber - Youth Arts

Publications

Books

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

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

Book Chapters

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

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

Rasmussen, M., Mitchell, J. & Harwood, V. (In press) 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.

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

Rasmussen, M. (2004) Safety and Subversion: The production of genders and sexualities in school spaces, in Rasmussen, M., Rofes, E. & Talburt, S. (2004) Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion and Insubordination in and out of Schools, Palgrave, New York, pp.131 152.

Harwood V.C. & Rasmussen, M. (2004) Studying Schools with an Ethic of Discomfort, invited chapter in B. Baker & K. Heyning (Eds.) Dangerous Coagulations? The Uses of Foucault in the Study of Education, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 305 321.

Harwood V.C. & Rasmussen, M. (2004) Problematising Gender and Sexual Identities in Damien Riggs and Gordon Walker, (Eds.) Out in the antipodes: Australian and New Zealand perspectives on gay and lesbian issues in psychology. Brightfire Press, Perth, WA, pp. 413 437.

Journal Articles

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. (2004) Thats so gay: A study of the deployment of signifiers of sexual and gender identity in secondary school settings in Australia and the United States, Social Semiotics, Vol 14, No.3, 289-308.

Rasmussen, M. (2004) Wounded Identities, Sex and Pleasure: Doing it at school. NOT! Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.24, No.2, 445-458.

Rasmussen, M. (2004) Coming out of Coming Out, Theory into Practice, Vol. 43, No. 2, 144 151.

Rasmussen, M. & Kenway, J. (2004) Queering the Youthful Cyberflaneur, in Globalizing Identities, Consuming Queer-/s: Issues in Education and Globalization, Special Issue of Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education. Vol.2, No.1, 47 63.

Rasmussen, M. & Harwood, V. C. (2003) Performativity, Youth and Injurious Speech. Teaching Education, vol. 14, no.1, 25-36.

Rasmussen, M. (2001) Queer trepidations and the art of inclusion Melbourne, Studies in Education, Special issue on inclusive education, Vol.44, no.1, 87-108.

Rasmussen, M., (2001) Queering schools and dangerous knowledges: Some new directions in sexualities, pedagogies and schooling (Review Essay), Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.22, No.2, 263 272.

Encyclopaedia Entries

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

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