Associate Professor Susanne Gannon
Biography
Associate Professor Gannon taught secondary English in several states for many years and also worked as an English curriculum adviser and Equity Programs Officer with Education Queensland before arriving at UWS. She is a prolific publisher with interests in diverse fields of educational research and beyond. She is the current Editor of the journal English in Australia and is on the editorial advisory board of Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge. She is a recipient of a 2010 ACSANZ grant on "Diversity, Youth and Neo-Liberalism in Canada and Australia" with Marnina Gonick (Mount St Vincent University) and Jo Lampert (QUT). At UWS she convenes and teaches in the Master of Education (Leadership), teaches in the Master of Teaching (Secondary) and is co-coordinator of the award-winning PE3 community service learning program for secondary pre-service teachers.
Areas of Expertise
Qualitative and innovative research methodologies; poststructural theory; feminist theory; Gender and social equity; English teaching and writing pedagogy
Awards
2010/11 ACSANZ Grant on "Diversity, Youth and Neo-Liberalism in Canada and Australia" (with Assoc. Prof Gonick, Mount St Vincent University, Canada, & Dr Jo Lampert, QUT)
2009/10 UWS Internal Research Grant on "Writing subjectivity and English Education in Western Sydney"
2007-2009 ARC Discovery Grant - "Place Pedagogies in rural and urban Australia" - with Professor Bronwyn Davies from UWS; and Professor Margaret Somerville, Dr Kerith Power and Dr Phoenix de Carteret from Monash University.
2005-2008 ARC Partnership Grant on "From high school to higher education: Gendered pathways in information, communication and computer technology education" (with A/Prof Kerry Robinson, Professor Margaret Vickers, Dr Carol Reid, Ms Cristyn Davies from UWS; Dr Julianne Lynch, Dr Catherine Harris, and Dr Leonie Rowan from Deakin University; and Professor Toni Downes from Charles Sturt University)
Grants / Current Projects
ARC Linkage - From high school to higher education: Gendered Pathways into ICCTs - with A/Prof Kerry Robinson, Professor Margaret Vickers, Dr Carol Reid, Ms Cristyn Davies from UWS; Dr Julianne Lynch, Dr Catherine Harris, and Dr Leonie Rowan from Deakin University; and Professor Toni Downes from Charles Sturt University.
ARC Discovery - Place Pedagogies in rural and urban Australia - with Professor Bronwyn Davies from UWS; and Professor Margaret Somerville, Dr Kerith Power and Dr Phoenix de Carteret from Monash University.
DEST - Teacher secondments and placements to University Education faculties - with Professor Wayne Sawyer, Dr Kevin Watson and Dr Debra Costley from UWS.
UWS Seed Grant - Teachers writing in/out of schools.
Selected Publications
Books
Wyatt, J., Gale, K., Gannon, S. & Davies, B. (2011) Deleuze and collaborative writing: An immanent plane of composition. New York: Peter Lang. (including 3 co-authored chapters)
Somerville, M., Davies, B., Power, K., Gannon, S., Carteret, P. (2011) "Place Pedagogy Change". Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. (including 2 sole-authored & 2 co-authored chapters)
Davies, B. & Gannon, S. (Eds.) (2009) Pedagogical encounters, Peter Lang: New York. (including 3 co-authored chapters)
Gannon, S., Howie, M. & Sawyer, W. (Eds.) (2009) Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education : Putney NSW. (including 2 sole authored chapters)
Davies, B. & Gannon, S (Eds.) (2006). Doing collective biography: Investigating the production of subjectivity. Open University Press/ McGraw Hill. (including 7 co-authored chapters)
Additional Book chapters (Since 2007)
Davies, B. & Gannon S.(2011)Feminism/ Post-structuralism in B.Somekh & C.Lewin (eds) Theory and Methods in Social Research. (2nd edn). McGraw Hill/OUP: London.
Gannon, S. & Davies, B. (2011) Postmodern, poststructural and critical theories. In S. Hesse-Biber (ed) Handbook of feminist research. (2nd edn). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Davies, B. & Gannon, S. (2010) Feminismus und Poststrukturalismus, in F. Haug (ed.) Briefe aus der ferne: Anforderungen an ein feministisches Projekt heute (Letters from Afar: Demands on a feminist project today) Hamburg.
Gannon, S. (2009) Writing narrative. In Higgs, J., Horsfall, D. & Grace, S. (eds) Writing qualitative research in practice. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam.
Gannon, S. (2009) Writing poetry in/to place. In Leggo, C; Prendergrast, M. & Sameshima, P. (eds) Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam.
Gannon, S. (2008) Perceptions of Changing Pedagogies in Computing and Information Technology. In J. Lynch (ed) Gender and IT: Challenges for Computing and Information Technology education in Australian secondary schools. Canberra: ACSA
Gannon, S. (2008) Messing with memories: Feminist poststructuralism and memory work. In M. Ewing, A. Hyle, J. Kaufman & D. Montgomery (eds) Dissecting the mundane: International perspectives on memory-work. UPA.
Gannon, S. & Saltmarsh, S. (2007) Sustaining Language/Existing Threats: Resistance and rhetoric in Australian refugee discourses. In Davies, B. (ed) Judith Butler in conversation: Analysing the texts and talk of everyday life. Routledge.
Book chapters – co-authored
Davies, B. & Gannon, S. (2007). Hanging on and flying. In Knowles, G., Cole, A., Neilsen, L. & Promislaw, S. (eds.) Creating Scholartistry: Imagining the Arts-informed Thesis or Dissertation. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Backalong Books. (in press).
Gannon, S. & Davies, B. (2006). Postmodern, poststructural and critical perspectives. In Hesse-Biber, S. & Leckenby, D. (eds). Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. NY: Sage.
Gannon, S. & Saltmarsh, S. (2007) Sustaining Language/Existing Threats: Resistance and rhetoric in Australian refugee discourses. In Davies, B. (ed) Judith Butler in conversation: Analysing the texts and talk of everyday life.
Routledge. Davies, B. & Gannon, S. (2005). Feminism/ Poststructuralism. In Lewin, C. & Somekh, B. (eds.) Research methods in the social sciences. London: Sage. (pp. 318-325)
Gannon, S. & Müller-Rockstroh, B. (2005). Nurturing breasts: Constructions of contemporary motherhood in women's breastfeeding stories. In Porter, M. & O'Reilly, A. (eds.) Motherhood: Power and oppression. Toronto: The Women's Press. (pp. 41-56)
Journal Articles (Since 2007)
Gannon, S. (2011) Difference as Ethical Encounter. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 11(1) 71–75.
Gannon S. (2010) Julia the Hottie and 'You Go, Girl': Role Models for Girls and Young Women? Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge, 23 (1). Available at: http://www.chloe.uws.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume23/gannon
Gannon, S. & Nguyen, D. (2010) Boom. Tick. Bing! Writing Bodies In. LEARNing Landscapes (Special issue: Poetry and education: Possibilities and practices), 4 (1), 265-272. Available at: http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/archives
Wyatt J, Gale K, Gannon S, Davies B, (2010) Deleuzian Thought and Collaborative Writing: A Play in Four Acts, Qualitative Inquiry, 16 (9), 730-741.
Gannon S, (2010) Service learning as a third space in pre-service teacher education, Issues in Educational Research, 20(1),21-28.
Bansel, P., Davies, B., Gannon, S. & Linnell, S. (2009) Technologies of audit at work on the writing subject: a discursive analysis. Studies in Higher Education. 33(6) 673-684
Gannon, S. (2009) Rewriting the Road to Nowhere: Place Pedagogies in Western Sydney. Urban Education. 44(5), 608-624.
Gannon, S. (2009) Into the (textual) west. English in Australia. 44(3) 29-37.
Gannon, S. (2009) Doing the 'other' over: Narrative conservatism in radical popular films. Studies in Australasian Cinema. 3(1) 29-46.
Gannon, S. (2008) Inhabiting silence: A sorry story. LEARNing landscapes (Special issue: Education and the arts: Blurring boundaries & creating spaces), 3, 235-244. Available at: http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/archives
Gannon, S. (2008). “Crime's family tree": conflating race, criminality & family in New Zealand. Crime Media Culture, 4, 411- 419.
Gannon, S. (2008) Coming to writing. English in Australia. 43(1) 33-46
Gannon, S. (2008) “Twenty-four seven on the computer”: Girls and ICTs at home and at school, Gender and Education, 20 (4) 361-373.
Linnell, S., Bansel, P., Ellwood, C. & Gannon, S. (2008) Precarious Listening. Qualitative inquiry. 14 (2) 285-306
Davies, B., Edwards, J., Gannon, S., & Laws, C. (2007) Neoliberal subjectivities and the limits of social change in university-community partnerships. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 35(1) 27-40
Gannon, S. (2007) The market, the media and the family in a school excursion rape case. International Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education. 20(3) 355-369
Gannon, S. (2007) Laptops and lipsticks: Feminising technology. Learning, media and technology. 32(1) 53-67.
Gannon, S. (2007) Writing into the space of the ‘other’. Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge. 17. Available at: http://www.chloe.uws.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume17/gannon
Gannon, S. & Davies, C. (2007) For love of the word: English teaching, affect and writing. Changing English. 14(1) 87-98.
Gannon, S. & Sawyer, W. (2007) “Whole language” and moral panic in Australia. International Journal of Progressive Education. 3(2) 33-51. Available at: http://www.inased.org/v3n2/gannonsawyer.pdf
Other
Member of Steering Committee for Western Sydney Young Persons Literature Officer project
Member of National Steering Committee for Teaching Teachers for the Future project
