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
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 & Popular Culture, 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

Gwen & Edna Jones Foundation, The Ray & Joyce Uebergang 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