Dr Susanne Gannon

Contact Details

Biography

Dr Gannon was a high school teacher for approximately 18 years in north Queensland, the Kimberley (WA) and western Victoria and has taught students from years 7-12 in English, History, Human Relationships Education, Film and Television and Aboriginal language and culture. In the later 90s she was also a curriculum adviser for English for a Regional School Support Centre and an Equity Programs Officer with Education Queensland. She completed an MEd (Hons) and PhD at James Cook University Cairns before moving to Sydney in 2003 to take up a position as a lecturer in literacy and English method at the University of Western Sydney.

Areas of Expertise

Qualitative methodologies Gender and social equity English teaching and writing pedagogy

Awards

2007 - Winner of the Vice Chancellor's Excellence in University Engagement (with Dr Anne Power as "PE3 Coordination team") 2007 - Recognised as one of top 40 publishers at UWS

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
Davies, B. & Gannon, S (Eds.) (2006). Doing collective biography: Investigating the production of subjectivity. Open University Press/ McGraw Hill.

Book chapters – sole-authored
Gannon, S. (2008) Messing with memory. In A. Hyle & J. Kaufman (eds) Dissecting the Mundane: International Perspectives on Memory Work; University Press America
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

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 – sole-authored
Gannon, S. (2008) 'Doing the 'other' over: Narrative conservatism in radical popular films,' Studies in Australasian Cinema. (in press December).
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
Gannon, S. (2007) The market, the media and the family in a school excursion rape case. Int 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.
Gannon, S. (2006) The (im)possibilities of writing the self: French Poststructural theory and autoethnography. Cultural studies ↔ Critical methodologies. 6(4) 474-495
Gannon, S. (2005). “The tumbler”: Writing an/Other in fiction & performance ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry. 11 (4) 622-627.
Gannon, S. (2004). Crossing “Boundaries” with the collective girl: A poetic intervention into sex education. Sex Education. 4 (1) 81-99.
Gannon, S. (2004). Out/Performing in the academy: Writing "The Breast Project". Int Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education. 17(1) 65-81
Gannon, S. (2004). Dream(e)scape: a poetic experiment in writing a self. Auto/biography. 12 (1) 107-125.

Journal articles – co-authored
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. & 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.
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Hopkins, L., McCann, H. & Wihlborg, M. (2006). Constituting ‘the subject' in poststructuralist discourse. Feminism and Psychology. 16 (1) 87-103.
Gannon, S. & Saltmarsh, S. (2006) Reading Cornelia Rau: At the limits of intelligibility. thirdspace: the journal for emerging feminist scholars 6(1)
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Honan, E. & Somerville, M. (2005). Embodied Women at Work in Neoliberal Times and Places. Gender, Work and Organization. 12 (4) 343-362.
Davies, B., Browne, J., Gannon, S., Honan, E., Laws, C., Müller-Rockstroh, B. & Petersen, E. B. (2004). The ambivalent practices of reflexivity. Qualitative Inquiry. 10(3) 360-389.
Gannon, S., & Müller-Rockstroh, B. (2004). In memory: Women's experiences of (dangerous) breasts. Philosophy in the contemporary world. 11 (1) 55-66.