Dr Mary Rasmussen - Researcher Profile

Biography

My principal research is in the area of sexualities, gender and education. I am the author of Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling (Routledge, 2006) and co-editor, with Talburt and Rofes, ofYouth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion and Insubordination in and out of Schools, Palgrave, 2004). In 2010 I co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Currently, I am working on an edited collection (with Louisa Allen and Kathleen Quinlivan) Interrogating the Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound (Routledge, 2013) and I am co-editing (with Daniel Marshall) a special issue of Sex Education on innovative methodologies in Sex Education research. I am also co-editing (with Christina Gowlett) a special issue of Discourse that problematizes the role of queer theory in education research. I am Chief Investigator of an ARC project Sexuality Education in Australia and New Zealand: Responding to cultural and religious difference (with Louisa Allen, Clive Aspin, Kathleen Quinlivan and Fida Sanjakdar), and, I am a Partner Investigator on a Canadian SSHRC grant Affective Beginnings: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in teacher education (with Jen Gilbert, Jessica Fields and Nancy Lesko). I am on the editorial board of the Journal Sex Education (Routledge), and, on the book series Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (Springer).

Research & Supervision Interests

• Gender and Education, Sex Education, Queer Theory, Sexualities and Schooling
• Secularism and Education
• Research Methods in Education
• Cultural Sociology of Education

 

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: University of South Australia

Year awarded: 2003

GRAD DIP ED

Institution: University of Canberra

Year awarded: 1997

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS)

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1989

Publications

Books

Rasmussen, M.L., 2006, Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling, Routledge, New York USA.

Rasmussen, M.L., Crowley, V. (eds), 2004, Special Issue. Wounded identities and the promise of pleasure., Carfax Publishing, United Kingdom.

Book Chapters

Rasmussen, M., 2012, Sex education, in Keywords in Youth Studies. Tracing affects, movements, knowledges, eds Nancy Lesko and Susan Talburt, Routledge, UK, pp. 185-189.

Rasmussen, M., Preston, L., 2009, Journeying on the frinj of outdoor education, in Educational Enactments in a Globalised World: Intercultural Conversations, eds Kathleen Quinlivan, Ruth Boyask & Baljit Kaur, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 103-113.

Leahy, D., Rasmussen, M.L., DinanThompson, M., 2009, Locating the 'sexual voice' in health and physical education curriculum, in Health & Physical Education: Issues for Curriculum in Australia and New Zealand, eds Maree DinanThompson, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 106-119.

Hickey-Moody, A.C., Rasmussen, M.L., 2009, The Sexed Subject in-between Deleuze and Butler, in Deleuze and Queer Theory, eds Chrysanthi Nigianni and Merl Storr (Series Editor: Ian Buchanan), Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 37-53.

Hickey-Moody, A.C., Rasmussen, M.L., Harwood, V., 2008, How to be a real lesbian: The pink sofa and some fictions of identity, in Queer Youth Cultures, eds Susan Driver, SUNY Press, New York USA, pp. 123-138.

Rasmussen, M.L., Mitchell, J.M., Harwood, V., 2007, The queer story of "the heterosexual questionnaire", in Queering Straight Teachers. Discourse and Identity in Education, eds Nelson M. Rodriguez, William F. Pinar, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 95-114.

Harwood, V., Rasmussen, M.L., 2004, Problematising gender and sexual identities, in Out in the Antipodes, eds Riggs, DW & Walker GA, Brightfire Press, Bentley WA Australia, pp. 392-415.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2004, Safety and Subversion: The Production of Sexualities and Genders in School Spaces, in Youth and Sexualities, eds Mary Louise Rasmussen, Eric Rofes and Susan Talburt, Palgrave Macmillan, New York NY USA, pp. 131-152.

Harwood, V., Rasmussen, M.L., 2004, Studying schools with an ethics of discomfort, in Dangerous Coagulations? The uses of Foucault in the Study of Education, eds B. Baker and K. Heyning, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 305-321.

Journal Articles

Rasmussen, M.L., 2012, Pleasure/desire, sexularism and sexuality education, Sex Education [E], vol 12, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon United Kingdom, pp. 469-481.

Harwood, V., Rasmussen, M.L., 2012, Practising critique, attending to truth: The pedagogy of discriminatory speech, Educational Philosophy and Theory [E], vol E, issue E, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 1-11.

Allen, L.E., Rasmussen, M.L., Quinlivan, K.A., Aspin, C., Sanjakdar, F., Bromdal, A.C.G., 2012, Who's afraid of sex at school? The politics of researching culture, religion and sexuality at school, International Journal of Research and Method in Education [P], vol E, issue E, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon United Kingdom, p. E.

Rasmussen, M., 2011, No Outsiders and "the eternal sunshine of the spotless child", Journal of LGBT Youth: An International Quarterly Devoted to Research, Policy, Theory, and Practice [P], vol 8, issue 2, Routledge, Philidelphia, United States, pp. 210-214.

Crowley, V., Rasmussen, M., 2010, After dark in the antipodes: pedagogy, place and queer phenomenology, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education [P], vol 23, issue 1, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 15-32.

Talburt, S., Rasmussen, M., 2010, 'After-queer' tendencies in queer research, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education [P], vol 23, issue 1, Sage Publications, United Kingdom, pp. 1-14.

Rasmussen, M., 2010, Revisiting moral panics in sexuality education, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: Quarterly Journal of Media Research and Resources[P], vol 135, University of Queensland, School of Journalism and Communication, Australia, pp. 118-130.

Rasmussen, M., 2010, Secularism, religion and 'progressive' sex education, Sexualities: Studies in culture and society [E], vol 13, issue 6, Sage Publications, United Kingdom, pp. 699-712.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2009, Beyond gender identity?, Gender And Education [P], vol 21, issue 4, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 431-447.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2009, Get real about sex: the politics and practice of sex education, by Pam Alldred and Miriam E. David (Book Review), Gender And Education [P], vol 21, issue 4, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 475-477.

Rasmussen, M.L., Harwood, V., 2009, Young people, education and unlawful non-citizenship: spectral sovereignty and governmentality in Australia, Globalisation, Societies and Education [P], vol 7, issue 1, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 5-22.

Gulson, K., Rasmussen, M.L., 2008, Book Review of Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: exclusions and student subjectivities, by Deborah Youdell, Policy Futures in Education, vol 6, issue 3, Symposium Journals, United Kingdom, pp. 363-367.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2007, Prescriptions for sex and gender in school architecture, Redress, vol 16, issue 1, Australian Association of Women Educators, Australia, pp. 17-22.

Harwood, V., Rasmussen, M.L., 2007, Scrutinizing sexuality and psychopathology: A Foucauldian inspired strategy for qualitative data analysis1, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, vol 20, issue 1, Routledge, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g777119763~db=all, pp. 31-50.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2006, Play School, melancholia, and the politics of recognition, British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol 27, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 473-487.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2005, Heterosexuality and gender melancholy: unsettling passionate attachments to subjection, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, vol 21, issue 2, Caddo Gap Press, San Francisco USA, pp. 25-44.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2005, Sexualities and education in Australia: which way forward?, Curriculum Perspectives, vol 25, issue 3, Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Wembley Downs WA Australia, pp. 51-53.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2004, "That's 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, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 289-308.

Rasmussen, M., Kenway, J., 2004, Queering the youthful cyberflneur, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, vol 2, issue 1, Harrington Park Press, Binghamton USA, pp. 47-63.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2004, The problem of coming out, Theory into Practice, vol 43, issue 2, Ohio State Univ, College Education, Columbus USA, pp. 144-150.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2004, Wounded identities, sex and pleasure: "doing it" at school. NOT!, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol 25, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 445-458.

Rasmussen, M.L., Harwood, V., 2003, Performativity, youth and injurious speech, Teaching Education, vol 14, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 25-36.

Conference Proceedings

Devos, A.M., Rasmussen, M.L., 2009, Carry that weight: over-burdening 'gender' in education, AARE 2008 International Education Research in Education Conference, 30 November - 4 December 2008, AARE, Coldstream Vic Australia, pp. 1-12.

Other

Rasmussen, M.L., 2005, Commentary on chapters 1-3 of section I: youth voices - reflections on growing up lesbian in New Zealand, Australia and the United States, Commentary on Section I of book 'Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies and Practices, Harrington Park Press, Binghamton USA.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2005, Gender Identity Disorder, Youth, Education and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, vol A-J, Greenwood Press, USA, pp. 361-364.

Rasmussen, M.L., 2005, Judith Butler, Youth, Education and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, vol A-J, Greenwood Press, USA, pp. 111-113.

Rasmussen, M.L., Kenway, J., 2005, Queer as folk, Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, vol 2, issue K-Z, Greenwood Press, Westport USA, pp. 676-680.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Collective action in neoliberal Australia: A multi-sited case study of social movements for public education..

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Joint), Windle, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Experiences of schooling: how has this nurtured or retarded growth and the 'who' we become?.

Supervisors:

Harris, A (Joint), Rasmussen, M (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Exploring the experiences of the sole parents in postgraduate education..

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Joint-co), Windle, J (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

In transit: Making a case through a/r/tography for belonging, being and becoming exhibited with/in place/space and body/spirit from the Cizek method of child art..

Supervisors:

Bone, J (Joint-co), Rasmussen, M (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Performing the therapeutic alliance: Gender non-conforming clients and the psychologist in Australia..

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Joint), Simmonds, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Picturing footballing bodies: gender, homosociality and sportscapes.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Protest music, adult learning and education for social change.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Queering Intersections of Masculinities and Neoliberal Individualisation in Australia.

Supervisors:

Kenway, J (Main), Rasmussen, M (Joint).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Queering/Doing Intersex in Sport..

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Seeking alternative stories of youth from the cites of Alfortville.

Supervisors:

Bursian, O (Joint), Rasmussen, M (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The location of conservative Protestant families and teachers within the American 'culture wars' and 'school wars': an ethnographic case study.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Joint), Windle, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The role in the crit in the undergraduate university art studio.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Main), Harris, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

To what extent does being an elite sports person affect academic acheivement in senior school students.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Charles, C.

Program of Study:

Knowing girls: 'objectification', 'girl power' and 'girls' resistance' at school. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Joint-Co), Tsolidis, G (Joint).

Student:

Pollard, V.

Program of Study:

Altruism in teaching: towards a critical ontology of altruism. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Rasmussen, M (Main).