Associate Professor Susanne Gannon

DAP - ADULT & PG EDUCATION,
Adult and Postgraduate Education (SoE)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Centre for Educational Research (SoE)

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Qualifications

PhD James Cook University
MEd James Cook University
DipEd Murdoch University
BA La Trobe University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Adult and Postgraduate Education (SoE)
Centre for Educational Research (SoE)

Professional Memberships

Australian Association of Teachers of English (2000-05-01)

Contact

Email:	S.Gannon@uws.edu.au
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Location:	J.1.12 Penrith (Kingswood)
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Biography

Associate Professor Gannon is Equity strand leader in the Centre for Educational Research. She is a prolific publisher with interests in diverse fields of educational research including gender equity and diversity; creative writing pedagogies; media and cultural studies in educational research and educational policy. She uses a range of qualitative methodologies including autoethnography and narrative methodologies, collective biography, discourse analysis and she is particularly interested in how theories of affect and materiality are reshaping feminist theories and research methodologies in education. She is the current Editor of the national journal English in Australia. She has been a CI on an ARC Linkage grant and ARC Discovery grant and 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, Canada) and Jo Lampert (QUT). At UWS she teaches in the Master of Education (Leadership) and teaches English Method in the Master of Teaching (Secondary). She is the Director of Academic Programs for Adult and Postgraduate Education, and the Academic Course Advisor for the Master of Education (Leadership). She taught in secondary schools 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 in 2003.

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Teaching

Current Teaching Areas

101398 Secondary Method 1A
101399 Secondary Method 1B
101656 Researching Practice

Publications

Books

Gannon, S. (2008), 'Flesh and the text: Poststructural theory and writing research', : VDM Verlag 9783836490207.

Chapters in Books

Gannon, S. (2012), 'Queering High School at Summer Heights', Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries, Bentham Books 22102833.
Gannon, S. (2012), 'Queering High School at Summer Heights', Queer and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating Subversive Imaginaries, Bentham Science 9781608053391.
Gannon, S., Davies, B., Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2011), 'Feminism/ Post-structuralism', Theory and Methods in Social Research, Sage 9781849200141.
Gannon, S., Davies, B., Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2011), 'Feminism/ Post-structuralism', Theory and Methods in Social Research, Sage 9781849200141.
Wyatt, J., Gale, K., Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2011), 'Of nightmares and the ontology of place: planning the book', Deleuze and Collaborative Writing: An immanent plane of composition, Peter Lang 9781433113185.
Wyatt, J., Gale, K. and Gannon, S. (2011), 'A play on and with Deleuze and collaborative writing', Deleuze and collaborative writing: An immanent p-lane of composition, Peter Lang 9781433113185.
Wyatt, J., Gale, K., Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2011), 'Beginning', Deleuze and collaborative writing: An immanent plane of composition, Peter Lang 9781433113185.
Gannon, S. (2011), 'Mapping Machans Beach: Meandering in place (a beginning)', Social ecology: Applying ecological understanding to our lives and our planet, Hawthorn Press 9781907359118.
Gannon, S. (2011), 'Creative Writing and/in/beyond the Australian Curriculum', Creating an Australian Curriculum for English, Phoenix Education 9781921586538.
Gannon, S. (2011), 'Collective biography as pedagogical practice : being and becoming in relation to place ', Place Pedagogy Change, Sense Publishers 9789460916137.
Gannon, S. (2011), 'Rewriting place in English', Place Pedagogy Change, Sense Publishers 9789460916137.
Gannon, S. (2011), 'Walking my way back home', Place Pedagogy Change, Sense Publishers 9789460916137.
Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2010), 'Feminismus und Poststrukturalismus', Briefe aus der ferne: Anforderungen an ein feministisches Projekt heute (Letters from Afar: Demands on a feminist project today), Argument Verlag 9783867543040.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Writing narrative', Writing qualitative research on practice, Sense Publishers 9789087909062.
Gannon, S., Howie, M. and Sawyer, W. (2009), 'Charged with Meaning', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Writing poetry in/to place', Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences, Sense Publishers 9789087909499.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Difference as ethical encounter', Pedagogical encounters, Peter Lang 9781433108174.
Davies, B., Gannon, S., Zabrodska, K., Bansel, P. and Camden-Pratt, C. (2009), 'Reflections on a day in the art class', Pedagogical encounters, Peter Lang 9781433108174.
Davies, B., Camden-Pratt, C., Ellwood, C., Gannon, S., Zabrodska, K. and Bansel, P. (2009), 'Second skin: The architecture of pedagogical encounters', Pedagogical encounters, Peter Lang 9781433108174.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Teaching film', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix education 9781921586187.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Creative writing', Charged with Meaning: Reviewing English, Phoenix Education 9781921586187.
Gannon, S. (2008), 'Messing with memories: Feminist Poststructuralism and Memory-work', Dissecting the mundane: International perspectives on memory-work, University of Arizona Press 9780761841166.
Davies, B. and Gannon, S. (2008), 'Hang On and Flying', Creating Scholartistry: Imagining the Arts-informed Thesis or Dissertation, Backalong Books 9781894132305.
Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2007), 'Postmodern, Poststructural, and Critical Theories', Handbook of Feminist Research, SAGE Publications 1412905451.
Small, J., Cadman, K., Friend, L., Gannon, S., Ingleton, C. and Koutroulis, G. (2007), 'Unresolved Power for Feminist Researchers Employing Memory-Work', The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies, ELSEVIER 0080450989.
Gannon, S. (2007), 'Perceptions of changing pedagogies in computing and information technology', Gender and I.T: Ongoing challenges for Computing and Information Technology Education in Australian Secondary Schools, ACSA 9781875864577.
Davies, B. and Gannon, S. (2006), 'The practices of collective biography', Doing Collective Biography, Open University Press, McGraw Hill 0335220452.
Davies, B., Gannon, S., Mccann, H., De Carteret, P., Stewart, D. and Watson, B. (2006), 'Reading fiction and the formation of feminine character', Doing Collective Biography, Open University Press, McGraw Hill 0335220452.
Davies, B., Gannon, S., Browne, J., Honan, E. and Somerville, M. (2006), 'Truly wild things: interruptions to the disciplinary regimes of ne-liberalism in (female) academic work', Doing Collective Biography, Open University Press, McGraw Hill 0335220452.
Davies, B. and Gannon, S. (2006), 'A conversation about the struggles of collaborative writing', Doing Collective Biography, Open University Press, McGraw Hill 0335220452.
Davies, B., Dormer, S., Gannon, S., Laws, C., Rocco, S., Lenz-Taguchi, H. and Mccann, H. (2006), 'Becoming schoolgirls : the ambivalent project of subjectification', Doing Collective Biography, Open University Press, McGraw Hill 0335220452.
Davies, B., Britt-Flemmen, A., Gannon, S., Laws, C. and Watson, B. (2006), 'An archaeology of power and knowledge', Doing Collective Biography, Open University Press, McGraw Hill 0335220452.
Gannon, S. and Mueller-Rockstroh, B. (2005), 'Narrating breasts: Constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories', Motherhood: Power and oppression, Women's Press 0889614547.
Davies, B. and Gannon, S. (2005), 'Feminist/ Poststructuralism', Research Methods in the social sciences, SAGE Publications 0761944028.
Gannon, S. and Muller-Rockstroh, B. (2004), 'In Memory: Women's experiences of breasts', Corporealities: In(ter)ventions in an imnipresent topic, Ulrike Helmer Verlag .

Journal Articles

Gannon, S. (2013), 'My School redux : re-storying scholing with the My School website', Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 14.
Gannon, S., Gonick, M. and Lampert, J. (2012), '"Old-fashioned and forward looking": neo-liberalism and nostalgia in the Daring Books for Girls', Jeunesse: Young people, texts,cultures, 18.
Gannon, S. (2012), 'The Crucible of Classroom Practice: Alchemy and Early Professional Learning in Secondary English Teaching', Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 15.
Gannon, S. (2012), 'Changing lives and standardising teachers: The possibilities and limits of professional standards', English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 19.
Gannon, S. (2012), 'From the curve of the snake, and the scene of the crocodile : musings on learning and losing space, place and body', Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 9.
Davies, B. and Gannon, S. (2012), 'Collective biography and the entangled enlivening of being', International Review of Qualitative Research, 21.
Gannon, S. (2012), 'The crucible of classroom practice : alchemy and early professional learning in secondary English teaching', Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 15.
Gannon, S. (2012), '"Old-fashioned and forward looking" : neo-liberalism and nostalgia in the Daring Books for Girls', Jeunesse : Young People, Texts, Cultures, 18.
Gannon, S. (2011), 'Difference as ethical encounter', Cultural studies - Critical methodologies, 5.
Gannon, S. (2010), 'Service learning as a third space in pre-service teacher education', Issues in Educational Research, 8.
Wyatt, J., Gale, K., Gannon, S. and Davies, B. (2010), 'Deleuzian Thought and Collaborative Writing: A Play in Four Acts', Qualitative Inquiry, 12.
Gannon, S. (2010), 'Julia the Hottie and 'You Go, Girl': Role Models for Girls and Young Women?', Outskirts: Feminims along the edge, .
Gannon, S. and Nguyen, D. (2010), 'Boom.Tick. Bing! Writing Bodies In', LEARNing Landscapes, 8.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Rewriting the 'Road to Nowhere': Place Pedagogies in Western Sydney', Urban Education, 17.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Doing 'the other' over: Narrative conservatism in radical popular films', Studies in Australasian Cinema, 18.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Into the (textual) west', English in Australia, 9.
Gannon, S. (2009), 'Book Review: David Buckingham, Beyond technology: Children's Learning in the age of digital culture', European Journal of Cultural studies, 3.
Linnell, S., Bansel, P., Ellwood, C. and Gannon, S. (2008), 'Precarious listening', Qualitative Inquiry, 22.
Gannon, S. (2008), ''Twenty-four seven on the computers': girls, ICTs and risk', Gender and Education, 13.
Gannon, S. (2008), 'Inhabiting silence: A sorry story', Learning landscapes, 10.
Bansel, P., Davies, B., Gannon, S. and Linnell, S. (2008), 'Technologies of audit at work on the writing subject:a discursive analysis', Studies in Higher Education, 11.
Gannon, S. (2008), 'Crime's family tree: Conflating race, criminality and family in New Zealand', CMC: Crime Media Culture, 9.
Gannon, S. (2008), 'Coming to writing', English in Australia, 13.
Gannon, S. (2008), 'Children, gender and video games: towards a relational approach to multimedia, by Valerie Walkerdine', Gender and education, 2.
Gannon, S. (2007), 'Laptops and lipsticks: feminising technology', Learning, Media & Technology, 15.
Davies, B., Edwards, J., Gannon, S. and Laws, C. (2007), 'Neo-liberal Subjectivities and the Limits of Social Change in University-Community Partnerships', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 14.
Gannon, S. (2007), 'Writing into the Space of the 'Other'', Outskirts: Feminisms along the edge, .
Gannon, S. and Sawyer, W. (2007), ''Whole language' and moral panic in Australia', International journal of progressive education, 22.
Gannon, S. and Davies, C. (2007), 'For Love of the Word: English Teaching, Affect and Writing', Changing English, 12.
Gannon, S. (2007), 'Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread by Nate Kohn (Book review)', Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, 2.
Gannon, S. (2007), 'The market, the media and the family in a school excursion rape case', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 15.
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Hopkins, L., Mccann, H. and Wihlborg, M. (2006), 'Constituting the Feminist Subject in Poststructuralist Discourse', Feminism & Psychology, 17.
Gannon, S. and Saltmarsh, S. (2006), 'Reading Cornelia Rau: At the limits of Intelligibility', thirdspace: the journal for emerging feminist scholars, .
Gannon, S. (2006), 'The (im)possibilities of writing the self: French poststructural theory and autoethnography', Cultural studies <-> Critical methodologies, 22.
Gannon, S. (2005), 'The tumbler: Writing An/Other in Fiction and Performance Ethnography"', Qualitative Inquiry, 6.
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Honan, E. and Somerville, M. (2005), 'Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places', Gender, work and organization, 20.
Gannon, S. and Mueller-Rockstroh, B. (2004), 'In Memory: Women's experiences of (dangerous) breasts', Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 12.
Gannon, S. (2004), 'Crossing 'boundaries' with the collective girl: a poetic intervention into sex education', Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 19.
Gannon, S. (2004), 'Out/performing in the academy; writing 'The Breast Project'', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19.
Gannon, S. (2004), ''Dream(e)scapes': a Poetic Experiment in Writing a Self', Auto/Biography, 19.
Davies, B., Gannon, S., Browne, J., Honan, E., Laws, C. and Mueller_Rockstroh +1, B. (2004), 'The Ambivalent Practices of Reflexivity', Qualitative Inquiry, 30.
Gannon, S. (2001), '(Re)presenting the collective girl: a poetic approach to a methodological dilemma', Qualitative Inquiry, 14.

Conference Papers

Gannon, S., Davies, B., Gale, K. and Watt, J. (2009), 'Using Deleuzian Thought in Collaborative Writing', International Congress of Qualitative Studies Workshop, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Other Publications

2003, 'LINQ', Published Work
2004, 'The Breast Project', Published Work

Research

Susanne's research spans diverse topics and a broad range of qualitative methodologies. She has contributed to the development of innovative methods including collective biography or memory work, autoethnography, poetic and narrative inquiry and has written extensively on poststructural and feminist theories and their methodological implications. She takes up cultural studies and discourse analytic approaches to analyse all sorts of texts including feature and documentary film and television, advertisements, newspapers, theatre texts, YA and children's fiction and information texts, and policy. She is particularly interested in how theories of affect and matter are impacting on educational research.