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Dr. Melissa Joy Wolfe

Melissa Joy Wolfe is an educator with 20 years experience in the Australian public and private secondary education sector. She is also a photographer and film-maker. Melissa currently is an Associate Professor in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is an expert in Creative Methods, Media and Visual Arts education. Her research encompass a filmic synthesis of aesthetics, affect, gender, creative and public pedagogies. She was awarded International Visual Sociology Association Prosser ECR award (2016) and the Australian Association for Research in Education ECR Award (2016). Her PhD entitled Girls Tales: experiences of schooling was awarded the Mollie Holman award for best education thesis (2016) Monash University, and a commendation award from the Australian Association of Educational Research (2017). Melissa’s research in schools utilises a creative filmic research methodology, engaging with theories of affect, that takes account of gender, socio-economic status and public pedagogical practice. She pragmatically thinks with Karen Barad’s (2007) theory of agential realism as a conceptual framework. Melissa’s 2015 film, Girls’ tales: experiences of schooling, was developed as a pre-service teaching aid and was released in December 2015 through Ronin films. (Also available under project page)

Melissa’s feminist research interests in education encompass a filmic synthesis of aesthetics, affect, gender, and participatory creative methods. These come together in her unique methodology ‘Re/active Documentary’ (see Wolfe 2017).

Publications

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  • https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-9942

  • Wolfe, M.J. (2024). School uniforms that hurt: an Australian perspective on gendered mattering. Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00682-0

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2023). An affective cartography of choice, aspiration and belonging; mapping students’ feelings during an Australian rural student science exchange program. The Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00578-5

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2022). Erasures of gender in/equity in Australian schooling: ‘The program is not about turning boys into girls’. Gender and Education, 34(8), 1041-1057. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2094349

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2022). Mapping gendered affects: an inquiry into student feelings on entry to an Australian selective STEM high school. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2022.2156853

  • White, R. J., & Wolfe, M. J. (2022). Education through smoke and ash: thinking without method and the argument for a post-growth education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2022.33

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2022). Affect and the making of the schoolgirl: A new materialist perspective on gender inequity in schools: Routledge

  • Mayes, E., Wolfe, M. J., & Higham, L. (2020). Re/imagining school climate: Towards processual accounts of affective ecologies of schooling. Emotion, Space and Society, 36, 100703. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100703

  • Wolfe, M. J., & Rasmussen, M. L. (2020). The Affective matter of school uniforms: The [school] dress that is and does. In B. Dernikos, N. Lesko, S. McCall, D., & A. Niccolini (Eds.), Mapping the affective turn in education: Theory, research, and pedagogies. (pp. 179-193). New York: Routledge.

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2020). Feminism in our times: Crises, Connections & Cares. In Y. Taylor & S. Singh (Eds.), Feminism in our times: Crises, Connections & Cares: University of Strathclyde.

  • Wolfe, M. J., & Mayes, E. (2019). Response-ability: Re-e-valuing shameful measuring processes within the Australian Academy. In Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor, & C. Costa (Eds.), Educational Futures and Fractures: Time and Space in the Neoliberal University (pp. 277-298): Palgrave. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15246-8_12

  • Wolfe, M., & Hook, G. (2019). Waving not drowning – The joyous feminist possibilities of single (un)becoming women. Women's Studies International Forum, 76. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.102269

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2019). Smart girls traversing assemblages of gender and class in Australian secondary mathematics classrooms. Gender and Education, 1-17. doi:10.1080/09540253.2017.1302078

  • Wolfe, M. J (2018) Re/active documentary: an artefact of dynamic force
    In ‘Video-based Research in Education: Agency and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives’ Edited by Lihua Xu (Deakin University), publisher Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315109213-14

  • Wolfe, M. J., & Rasmussen, M. L. (2018). Girls' Tales: experiences of schooling: making a re/active documentary film.In D. Kember & M. Corbett (Eds.), Structuring the Thesis: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_33 

  • Mayes, E., & Wolfe, M. J (2018). Shameful interest in educational research. Critical Studies in Education, 1-17. doi:10.1080/17508487.2018.1489871

  • Wolfe, M. J (2018), Materializing effects of difference in sex education: the ‘absurd’ banana penis. Gender and Education, 1-17. doi:10.1080/09540253.2017.1302078

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2017). Refracting schoolgirls: pedagogical intra-actions producing shame. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38(5), 727-739. doi:10.1080/01596306.2016.1143451

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2017). Post-Qualitative Filmic Research in Education: Utilizing a “Re/Active Documentary” Methodology. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(6), 427-437. doi:10.1177/1077800416673660

  • Wolfe, M. J., (2017), "Puberty Blues – Now and then: diffracting semblances of being girl in Australia" Feminist Media Studies (3) pp. 489-504. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1235598

  • Wolfe, M. J. (2017). Affective schoolgirl assemblages making school spaces of non/belonging. Emotion, Space and Society, 25, 63-70. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.05.010

  • Hook, G. A. & Wolfe, M. J. (2017) Affective violence: re/negotiating gendered- feminism within new materialism, Journal of Gender
    Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2017.1340151

  • Wolfe, M. J. (Writer). (2015). Girls' Tales: experiences of schooling [DVD]. In M. Wolfe (Producer). ACT Australia: Ronin Films. Available at: https://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/12626/girls-tales-women-discuss-experiences- of.html (see project page on this site)

  • Webster, R. S., & Wolfe, M. J. (2013). Incorporating the Aesthetic Dimension into Pedagogy. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38(10). DOI: 10.14221/ajte.2013v38n10.2

  • Wolfe, M. (2013). Affective aesthetic pedagogy: Interactions between teachers and students. In B. Knight & R. Van der Zwan (Eds.), Teaching Innovations Supporting Student Outcomes in the 21st Century (pp. 116-123). Tarragindi, Australia: Oxford Global Press.

  • Wolfe, M. The complete picture: Teaching for understanding using the visual diary [online]. Screen Education No. 64, Summer 2011: 80-85. ISSN: 1449-857X. Availability: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=8616025189086 51;res=IELHSS