The Literary Education Lab is housed at the University of Melbourne, with collaborations nationally and internationally. Our diverse projects include challenging the literary canon in schools; mobilising literary education to think about the climate crisis and issues of consent; speculative fiction as research method; the role of the digital in literary education; teacher knowledges in literary education, and more.
See projectsFounded in 2019 by Professor Larissa McLean Davies and A/Prof Sarah E. Truman, the Literary Education Lab draws together a series of projects investigating the role and potentials of literary education in diverse 21st century settings.
About usFunded by the Australian Research Council, DECRA
Directed by A/Prof Sarah E. Truman, the project examines the pedagogical and social potentials of reading and writing speculative fiction with youth and interdisciplinary scholars.
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Literature and reading are being transformed by digital technologies. With a focus on Australian literature...
Read moreFunded by the Australian Research Council, Melbourne Climate Futures, and Stella
Climate change has been identified as the major crisis facing the world, and a core issue for young people...
Read moreFunded by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Stella
In the wake of the global #metoo movement on sexual assault, in early 2021, an online petition in Australia...
Read moreFunded by Melbourne Graduate School of Education and Stella
The Teacher-Researchers project built on previous research by members of the project team...
Read moreBelow are the researchers and collaborators affiliated with the Literary Education Lab.
See specific projects for details on the research teams involved.