Lecturer - English, Language and Literacy

The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE)
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT)
Larissa is a member of the VCE Text Advisory Panel

Bachelor of Arts (Hons)- Melbourne
Bachelor of Music (Hons)- Melbourne
PhD - Melbourne

Larissa currently co-ordinates the English Learning Area subjects in the Master of Teaching degree. In addition to this, she teaches in the core Master of Teaching subject, Language and Teaching. Prior to her current role, Larissa taught English and literature in a range of secondary schools for 12 years.

Larissa's research interests include:

National literatures in secondary English education
Critical literacy/literary theory
The cultural implications of text selection practices
Gender and pedagogy in the English classroom
English curriculum design

From most recent.

McLean Davies, L. (2008 - forthcoming). Australian writing: polemics and possibilities. Idiom

McLean Davies, L. (2008, June). Making us uncomfortable: Bourdieu, Summer Heights High and the fiction of Elizabeth Jolley. Public lecture delivered at the University of Melbourne.

McLean Davies, L. (2008 - forthcoming). Sensational story: rereading female heterotopias in Helen Garner’s Cosmo Cosmolino. In A. Uhlmann (Ed.), Literature and Sensation. London: Cambridge Scholars Press.

McLean Davies, L. (2008, June). The politics of text selection: Australian literature in the National Curriculum. Paper presented at the AELE Research Network
Symposium, National Curriculum in English: Perspectives, principles, possibilities, University of Sydney.

McLean Davies, L. (2008 - under review). Towards a nexus pedagogy: Bourdieu, Summer Heights High and the fiction of Elizabeth Jolley.

McLean Davies, L. (2008) What's the story? Australian literature in the secondary English curriculum. In Conference Proceedings of the ALEA/AATE 2008 National Conference, Adelaide, Australia.

McLean Davies, L. (2007, December). Appropriating Bourdieu and Foucault: a new approach to Elizabeth Jolley’s fiction. Paper presented at the Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference, Monash University, Melbourne.

McLean Davies, L. (2007, July). A second-wave spatial solution? Drusilla Modjeska’s The Orchard. Paper presented at Conference for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.

Beardwood, R. (McLean Davies, L. contributing author). (2007). English for Year 12. Melbourne, Insight.

McLean Davies, L (2007, February). Personal domains: heterotopology in second-wave Australian women’s writing. Paper presented at New Reckonings: Australian Literature – Past, Present, Future, Conference for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in honour of Elizabeth Webby, University of Sydney.

McLean Davies, L. (2007). Protest and complicity: some short stories by Barbara Baynton and Thea Astley. Women Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 40, 166-69.

McLean Davies, L. (2007, July). Sensational stories: Helen Garner and the failure of fiction. Paper presented at Literature and Sensation, Conference for the Australasian Association for Literature, UWS, Sydney.

McLean Davies, L., Saunders, T., Williams, M., & Guidara, S. (2001). English Quest 3. Milton, Qld: Jacaranda.

McLean Davies, L. (2001, December). Mapping old ground: Reading alternative landscapes in second-wave Australian women’s writing. Paper presented at the Nation States Conference, Adelaide University, 2001.

McLean Davies, L. (2001). Housing Nora: Domestic spaces and Australian women’s writing. Paper presented at the Conference for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Trades Hall, Melbourne.

McLean Davies, L. (1998). Football, ford and filo pastry: Contesting and creating Australian culture in the classroom. Idiom, 36 (2), 31-36.

McLean Davies, L. & Wilson, A. (1997). Literature 2000: Issues of reading. Christian Teachers’ Journal, 5(1), 22-32.