Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers (PDF)

Teacher of Language and Literacy (Cambridge University Press, 2014), co-edited with Glenn Auld and Muriel Wells. Brenton is a life member of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English and the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English.

Philip Mead was inaugural Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia (2009-2018). He is currently Emeritus Chair in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. From 2009-2010 Philip was Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Visiting Chair of Interdisciplinary Australian Studies, at the Free University, Berlin and in 2015-2016 was Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. Philip has published in the areas of national and transnational literary studies, Indigenous literatures, cultural history and theory, poetics, literary education, and digital humanities. In 2018 Philip published Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016 with Gordon McMullan (Arden/Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary, co-edited with Gareth Griffiths (Columbia University Press, 2018). He is currently editing, with Professor Ann Vickery of Deakin University, the Cambridge History of Australian Poetry.

Wayne Sawyer is Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at Western Sydney University. Before joining WSU, Wayne was a secondary school Head of English. He is a past President of the New South Wales (NSW) English Teachers Association (ETA) and past Chair of the NSW Board of Studies English Curriculum Committee. He is an Honorary Life Member of both the NSW ETA and the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, and a former editor of English in Australia. Wayne's doctoral research was on English curriculum history in NSW and he currently researches in the areas of secondary English curriculum, curriculum history, literacy policy, literary knowledge, and pedagogy in low SES schools. His most recent books include Charged with Meaning: Becoming an English Teacher (Phoenix Education, 2019) and the co-edited, The Future of English Teaching Worldwide: Celebrating 50 Years from the Dartmouth Conference (Routledge, 2018). He is currently co-editing a book on teacher education in English for Routledge.

Lyn Yates' long-standing research interests have been in the possibilities and constraints of institutional education, both schooling and post-school education. Her work has included a range of research on curriculum and the schooling experience as shapers of identity, and of gender- and class-based inequalities and opportunities within this. It has also included many essays and analyses of changing education policies, both in Australia and internationally, with particular attention to knowledge and social change, and to the longer-term implications of how the roles of schools and universities are being understood and enacted. Lyn is now Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. Her major books include Making Modern Lives (with Julie McLeod) (Suny Press, 2006), What Does Good Education Research Look Like? (McGraw-Hill Education, 2004), Curriculum in Today's World (with Madeleine Grumet) (Routledge, 2011) and Knowledge at the Crossroads? (with Peter Woelert, Victoria Millar and Kate O'Connor) (Springer, 2017).