Dr Paul Venzo

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Senior Lecturer, Writing and Literature

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Comm & Creative Arts

Campus

Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Deakin University, 2014
Master of Arts, University of Melbourne, 2002

Contact

paul.venzo@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 556 33210

Publications

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2023

Rainbow Connections: Representations of LGBTI+ Families in Children's Picture Books

Paul Venzo

(2023), pp. 253-263, Between Sexuality, Gender and Reproduction: On the Pluralisation of Family Forms, Cambridge, Eng., B1

book chapter

Adopting Ocean-Themed Picture Books to Promote Ocean Literacy in Primary Education

Cátia Freitas, Prue Francis, Alecia Bellgrove, Paul Venzo

(2023), pp. 1-16, Children's Literature in Education, Berlin, Germany, C1

journal article

Fostering ocean literacy through informal marine education programs

Madi O'Brien, Cátia Freitas, Paul Venzo, Prue Francis

(2023), Vol. 193, pp. 115208-115208, Marine Pollution Bulletin, England, C1

journal article

Poetic foundations for watery terrain - three poems below Venice

Paul Venzo

(2023), Vol. 27, pp. 1-5, Text, Brisbane, Qld., JO3

Non-Traditional Research Output
2022

How funny am I?

Paul Venzo, David Petkovic

(2022), Vol. 11, pp. 215-232, Humour in Self-Translation, B1

book chapter

Public Health, Polio, and Pandemics: Fear and Anxiety about Health in Children's Literature

K Moruzi, S Chen, P Venzo

(2022), Vol. 53, pp. 97-111, Children's Literature in Education, C1

journal article

Towards a 2025 National Ocean Literacy Strategy: Current Status and Future Needs in Primary Education

C Freitas, A Bellgrove, P Venzo, P Francis

(2022), Vol. 9, Frontiers in Marine Science, C1

journal article

Postcards from Venice: Poetry and peregrination in La Serenissima

Paul Venzo

(2022), Vol. 12, pp. 1-11, Axon: Creative Explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., C1

journal article

The Great Southern Reef

Paul Venzo, Prue Francis

(2022), Clayton South, Vic., JO3

Non-Traditional Research Output

Zuel di Qua, Zuel di Là

Paul Venzo

(2022), pp. 21-21, Travel An Anthology of Microlit, Sydney, N.S.W., JO3

Non-Traditional Research Output
2021

Introduction

Kristine Moruzi, Paul Venzo

(2021), pp. 1-12, Sexuality in literature for children and young adults, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

That 'tingly feeling': Sex and sexuality in children's nonfiction picture books

Paul Venzo

(2021), pp. 29-43, Sexuality in literature for children and young adults, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Reading over and under the waves: A study of ocean picture books for children

P Francis, P Venzo, A Bellgrove

(2021), Vol. 37, pp. 167-186, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, C1

journal article

Whose eggs are these? Gender in ocean-themed picture books

Paul Venzo, Lara Hedberg, Prue Francis

(2021), Vol. 4, pp. 115-133, Journal of Science and Popular Culture, Bristol, Eng., C1

journal article

Sexuality in literature for children and young adults

Paul Venzo, Kristine Moruzi

(2021), New York, N.Y., A7

edited book
2020

Mums, dads and the kids: Representations of rainbow families in children's picture books

L Hedberg, P Venzo, H Young

(2020), Vol. 19, pp. 198-216, Journal of LGBT Youth, C1

journal article
2019

The unsettled self: creative practice and the nomadic poetics of a contemporary flâneur

Paul Venzo

(2019), pp. 19-30, Interdisciplinary unsettlings of place and space: conversations, investigations and research, Singapore, B1

book chapter

The camping ground "down under": queer interpretations of the Australian summer holiday

Paul Venzo

(2019), pp. 132-145, Queer as camp: essays on summer, style and sexuality, New York, N.Y., B1

book chapter

Intrinsic disorder: a view from inside the Catholic Church in Australia

Paul Venzo

(2019), pp. 59-66, Negotiating spiritual violence in the queer community, Charlotte, N.C., B1

book chapter

Wabi Sabi: intermediated textures of impermanence and imperfection

Paul Venzo

(2019), Vol. 8, pp. 217-225, Belas infiéis, [unknown], C1

journal article

Volcano

Cassandra Atherton

(2019), pp. 1-1, Personal Structures: Identities Exhibition, Venice, Italy, J3

Non-Traditional Research Output
2018

Unter den linden and over the wall: a topological examination of childhood in Berlin through picture books

P Venzo, Alexandra Mellert

(2018), pp. 341-359, Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche, [Berlin, Germany], B1

book chapter

'Boys of the Parish': a poetic journey around sexual identity in Australia and Italy

P Venzo

(2018), pp. 264-274, Living and loving in diversity an anthology of Australian multicultural queer adventures, Mile End, S. Aust., B1

book chapter

Ghost town travels: Homo-recollections in a post-gay era

Paul Venzo

(2018), Vol. 44, pp. 47-58, Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, Brisbane, Qld., C1

journal article

Paul Jennings: cabbage patch stories for rascals and deadly wicked kids

P Venzo

(2018), Warrnambool, Vic., J2

Non-Traditional Research Output
2017

Queers are pioneers: keeping an open mind about education

P Venzo

(2017), pp. 211-214, Dear gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender teacher : letters of advice to help you find your way, Charlotte, N. C., B1

book chapter
2016

Reading them in: using LGBT child and young adult literature in preservice teacher education

P Venzo

(2016), pp. 111-126, Queering classrooms: personal narratives and educational practices to support LGBTQ youth in schools, Charlotte, N.C., B1

book chapter

(Self)translation and the poetry of the 'in-between'

P Venzo

(2016), Vol. 50, pp. 1-6, Cordite poetry review, Carlton, Vic., C1

journal article

To boldly go where no one has gone before: symbolic annihilation and queer interventions in the Star Trek universe

P Venzo

(2016), Vol. 1, pp. 285-296, Queer studies in media and popular culture, Bristol, Eng., C1

journal article

Memories of imagined places

P Venzo, S Tan

(2016), pp. 26-27, Shaun Tan. Somewhere nowhere: memories of imagined places, Warrnambool, Vic., J2

Non-Traditional Research Output
2015

Imagined terrain: literary nomadism in Venice and the Veneto

P Venzo

(2015), Vol. 5, pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A. C. T., C1

journal article

Archipelago

P Venzo

(2015), pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., J3

Non-Traditional Research Output

Sonnet for Redentore

P Venzo

(2015), pp. 1-1, Axon: creative explorations, Canberra, A.C.T., J3

Non-Traditional Research Output
2013

La dolce vita: creative re-imaginings of Italianicity

P Venzo

(2013), pp. 155-168, Identity: beyond tradition and McWorld neoliberalism, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, B1-1

book chapter

Honk against homophobia : rethinking relations between media and sexual minorities

P Venzo, K Hess

(2013), Vol. 60, pp. 1539-1556, Journal of homosexuality, Abingdon, England, C1

journal article
2012

Vespers

P Venzo

(2012), Vol. 58, pp. 41-, Westerly, Perth, Western Australia, J3-1

Non-Traditional Research Output
2010

Making difference SUPER : a critical approach to the politics of celebrity-authored children's books

P Venzo

(2010), Vol. 7, pp. 98-113, Journal of children's literature studies, Lichfield, England, C1-1

journal article
2009

The body under surveilance : big brother and representations of the war in Iraq

P Venzo

(2009), pp. 195-203, Bodies, theories cultures in the post-millennial era, Thessaloniki, B1

book chapter
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Paul Venzo

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Non-Traditional Research Output

Funded Projects at Deakin

Other Public Sector Funding

Improving Ocean Literacy in Port Phillip Bay Primary Schools

Dr Prue Francis, Dr Paul Venzo, A/Prof Craig Sherman, Miss Catia Abreu De Freitas

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action Port Philip Bay Fund 90 719 052 204

  • 2023: $89,265

Industry and Other Funding

DeakinSeaEd: marine education resources for children

Dr Prue Francis, Dr Alecia Bellgrove, Dr Paul Venzo

The Ray & Joyce Uebergang Foundation, Gwen & Edna Jones Foundation

  • 2019: $10,000

Student application - Raising awareness of the Australia's Great Southern Reef in primary schools using children's literature through a professional development program for teachers.

Dr Prue Francis, Miss Catia Jose Abreu De Freitas, Dr Alecia Bellgrove, Dr Paul Venzo

PADI Foundation Research Grants

  • 2021: $4,015

Supervisions

Co-supervisor
2021

Linda Wells

Thesis entitled: THE BUNGALOW ALICE SPRINGS 1914-1929

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Associate Supervisor
2024

Catia Jose Abreu De Freitas

Thesis entitled: Using Children¿s Literature to Teach Marine Science Concepts

Doctor of Philosophy (Life & Env), School of Life and Environmental Sciences