BA, DipEd (Syd), MA, PhD (Macq)

Associate Professor
Academic area: Director Centre for Research and Education in the Arts

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3919
Email: Rosemary.Ross.Johnston@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.05.118
Campus: Cross Campus

Associate Professor Rosemary Johnston is the Director of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts at UTS. She was recently elected Vice-President of the Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes, which is related to UNESCO, and whose member associations include more than 40,000 scholars around the world. Her work has been translated into several languages, and she has been an invited guest speaker at a number of national and international conferences and symposia.

Professor Johnston is a literature and children’s literature specialist and has wide teaching experience. In 2000, she was H.W. Donner Guest Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities of Abo Akademi University, Finland, where she was engaged in research in an interdisciplinary doctoral training program which included literature, language, semiotics, cultural studies, folklore, education and gender studies. The project was funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education.

In November 2002 she will be Guest Speaker at the Ninth Annual NCRCL/British IBBY (International Board of Books for Young People) Conference, Froebel College, University of Roehampton, Surrey, UK.

Teaching Areas:
Literature, Children's Literature, Drama, Teaching ESL, Literary Theory in undergraduate and graduate programs.
Supervision of research students in literature, children's literature, education and the arts.

Research Areas:
Research and scholarly interests include: Australian literature and children's literature, poetics and theory of children's literature, literature in the educational context, drama and literature, transdisciplinarity and the arts, significance of arts education.

Professional Organisations:

• Vice-President, Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes (affiliated to UNESCO) from 1996-2002.
• Secretary: International Research Society for Children's Literature 1997-2001.
• Foundation Member of Board: Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research 1997-2002.

International Member of Board:

• Montgomery Institute (Canada) from 1998.
• International Committee Representative: Children's Literature Association (USA), 2001-2.
• Board of Governors, Dromkeen Literature Collection (2002).
• Judge and evaluator for the British Arts and Humanities Research Board.
• Committee member, Australia Council for the Arts (2001)

Community Service:

• Judge, Teaching Awards (2001)
• Judge, Society of Women Writers Awards (2001)
• Judge, numerous school and community functions
• Chairperson, Actors College of Theatre and Television Subject Accreditation Reviews (2000-2001)
• Chairperson, several TAFE reviews (2000-2002).
• Chairperson, Tree Tops Pre-School, Warriewood (2002)
• Board Member, Board of Education, UCA (1995-2002)
• Board Member, Exodus Foundation
• NSW Representative Uniting Education (from 1999)
• Chairperson, Commission for School Education, Uniting Church (1998- )
• Board of Governors, Northern Beaches Christian School (2002).

Publications:
Books
Johnston, R. R. 2001, in Winch, G., Johnston, R. R., March, P. Ljungdahl. L. and Halliday, M. Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature. Oxford University Press (Part III Chapters 16-27, pp. 285-437).
Johnston, R. R. (in preparation). Landscapes and Mindscapes: Australian Children's Literature.

Chapters
Johnston, R. R. (2002).'Teacher-as-artist, Researcher-as-artist: Creating Structures for Success.' M. Anstey and G. Bull (eds), Crossing the Boundaries, Pearson International, Australia, Sydney, NSW.
Johnston, R.R. (2002). 'The Chronotope of Childhood in Narrative', R. Sell (ed), Children' s Literature as Communication, Benjamins, The Netherlands (in press).
Johnston, R. R. (1996) 'Connecting and Community: how to encourage your child to become a reader.' Real Books for Real Kids. Australian School Library Association NSW Inc. pp.2-10.

Refereed Journals
Johnston, R. R. "'All the world's a stage": Children's Literature as Performance,' (forthcoming).
Johnston, R. R. 'Landscapes of Summer: Beach and bush as sites and rites of passage' (forthcoming)
Johnston, R. R. 'Carnivals, the Carnivalesque, The Magic Pudding, and David Almond's Wild Girl, Wild Boy: Towards a theorizing of children's plays,' forthcoming.
Johnston, R. R. (2002). 'The sense of "Before-us": Landscape and the Making of Mindscapes in Recent Australian Children's Books,' Canadian Children's Literature, No. 104, Vol 27:4, pp.26-46.
Johnston, R. R. (2002). 'Pertinent ou non? Littérature et recherche littéraire en ces temps troubles', Diogenes,Journal of UNESCO, p. 29-39.
Johnston, R. R. (2002). Beyond Postmodernism: Spatialism and the representation of the infinite.' CREArTA, Vol.2. No.2.
Johnston, R. R. (2001) 'Routes to Imaginative Literacy for Young People' [in Greek], Diadromes, Athens, Greece, Second Period, No 1, pp.15-23.
Johnston, R. R. (2001). 'Time and "Great Time", or, Having a great time: Researchers in arts education,' CREArTA, 2,1 pp. 3-11.
Johnston, R. R. (2000) 'The Arthurian Paradigm: Representations of female subjectivity and female space.' The Grail Quest Papers, ed. B. Poston-Anderson, CREA Publications, Sydney, pp. 82-88.
Johnston, R. R. (2000). 'The arts at the beginning of a new millennium,' CREArTA, 1,1 pp. 4-22.
Johnston, R. R. (2000). 'The literacy of the imagination.' Bookbird, Vol.38, No.1, pp. 25-30.
Johnston, R. R. (1999). 'Children's literature advancing Australia.' Bookbird Vol 37, No 1, Special Issue: Children's Literature of Australia and New Zealand, pp.13-18.
Johnston, R. R. (1998). 'Time-space: history as palimpsest and mise-en-abyme in children's literature.'
Johnston, R. R. (1998). 'Thisness and everydayness in children's literature: the 'being -in-the-world proposed by the text.' Papers 8,1. April, 1998, pp.7-18.
Johnston, R. R. (1997). 'Reaching beyond the word: religious themes as "deep structure" in the Anne books of L. M. Montgomery.' Canadian Children's Literature 88, 1997, pp.25-35.
Johnston, R. R. (1997). 'Children's Literature – the Missing Link?' The Literature Base. Vol 8, Issue 3.
Johnston, R. R. (1995). 'Shaping words and shape-shifting words - the special magic of the eighties.' Children's Literature in Education, Vol.26, No.4, pp.211-217.
Johnston, R. R. (1995). "Of dialogue and desire: children's literature and the needs of the L2 reader'. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol. 18, No. 4, 1995, pp.293-303.

Refereed Conference Proceedings
Johnston, R. R. (2002). 'Children's Literature as a Creative Art, ' Refereed Proceedings, International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, University of New South Wales, 17-21 July 2002. CD and WEB, www.icmpc.org
Johnston, R. R. (2001). 'Renewing Stories of Childhood.' Refereed Proceedings of Fifteenth Biennial IRSCL Congress, Klein Kariba, South Africa, 20-24 August 2001 (forthcoming).
Johnston, R. R. (2001). 'Multiplying Voices and Diversifying Dialogues: the art of the visual chronotope.' ACLAR Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-28 January 2001 (forthcoming).
Auh, M. S. and Johnston, R.R. (2000). 'A Pilot Study comparing creativity in composing and storytelling in children 3-5.' Refereed Proceedings of the Second Research Symposium, CERG, UTS.
Johnston, R. R. (2000) 'Connections: Literature and Education Research Methodologies.' Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) National Conference, University of Sydney, http://www.Swin.edu.au/aare ISSN 1324-9339.
Johnston, R. R. (1999). 'Transdisciplinarity: A New Paradigm in a Culture of Educational Change.' CERG Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Refereed Conference Proceedings, pp. 238-250.
Johnston, R. R. (1997) 'Globalisation, multiculturalism, and the university of the twenty-first century as a "collective conscious."' Published papers: Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Annual Conference Advancing International Perspectives, University of Adelaide, pp. 358-363.
Johnston, R. R. (1997). 'The Little Australian Advancing Australia' in Nimon, M. (ed) Old Neighbours, New Visions. Centre for Children's Literature, University of South Australia. Refereed Conference Proceedings, AACLAR December 1997, pp.71-80.

Editorial
CREArTA, Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts
Referee, Canadian Children's Literature
Reader, Children's Literature Association Quarterly

Published International Reports
Johnston, R. R. and S. Beckett (2002). 'Société de Recherche Internationale sur las Littérature pour Enfants', Diogenes, Journal of UNESCO, pp. 148-151.
Published International Discussion
Australian representative for 'What's Canadian about Canadian Children's Literature?' An International Compendium of Invited Responses, Canadian Children's Literature No 87, 1997.

Creative writing
The Secret Tunnel (unpublished manuscript)
The Tiger Within (unpublished manuscript)
Life-Times (collection of poetry)

Dramatic Productions
Stop, Look, Listen: Santa in the City (Written and directed by Nicola Goslett, Rosemary Johnston and Barbara Poston-Anderson). A CREA production, in collaboration with the Road Traffic Authority of New South Wales, Kuring-gai Council, North Sydney Council and Warringah Council.
Antigone and the Fall of the House of Oedipus (Sophocles). Adapted and directed by Rosemary Johnston and Barbara Poston-Anderson. A CREATIVE HSC Production. With Modern Chorus written by Rosemary Johnston.
The Crucible (Arthur Miller). Adapted and directed by Rosemary Johnston. A CREATIVE HSC. Production. With Scholarly Introduction written by Rosemary Johnston: 'The Crucible and Modern Day Hysterias.'
Masquerade: Shakespeare's Hidden Women. Adapted and directed by Barbara Poston-Anderson. Scholarly Introduction by Rosemary Johnston.
Tales of a Golden Chair, Adapted and directed by Barbara Poston-Anderson and Rosemary Ross Johnston.

Electronic
Johnston, R. R. (1997) 'Adventures in writing and learning: on keeping a reflective journal.' Posted in Mathematics Education 1 Directory in TOPCLASS.

Newspaper and other media:

Television
Channel 2 The Seven-Thirty Report, 14 July 2001
ABC Television The World at Noon, 14 July 2000
ABC Nightly News, 14 July 2000
Channel 2 The Seven Thirty Report, 14 July 2000
Channel 9 Sunday, 3 June 2001

Press
Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 2001
Sydney Morning Herald, 19-20 May 2001
Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2000
The Australian, various
North Shore Times/Manly Daily various

International press
Samoa Observer, July 2002.
Dagens Nyheter, 27 May 2002, p.1 and p.3.
Samoa Observer, July 2001 p. 2.
Talofa Samoa, July 2001. p. 8.
Helsinki Media Interview, June 2000
TurkuUnderrattelser 9 May 2000, p.1, pp. 8-9
Å bo Meddelanden, 5 May, 2000, pp.4-5
Vientiane Times September 29-October 1 1998.
Kultur. Sport. Idag (Sweden) 4 September 1995.

Recent presentations include
Guest Presentation, Northern Beaches Secondary College, 24 September 2002.
Presentation, Federation Internationale des Langues et Litteratures Modernes Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 20 August 2002.
Presentation, Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) Conference, Brisbane, 11-13 July, 2002.
Presentation, Children's Literature Association, Wilkes-Barre, PA. USA.
Guest speaker, Uniting Education Conference, Melbourne. 16 August 2002.
Guest speaker, Nordic Research Symposium, Biskops-Arnö, Sweden, 24-28 May, 2002.
Guest speaker, Åbo Akademi, Finland, 21 May 2002.
Guest speaker, University of Helsinki, 14 May 2002 (interview and report in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's morning newspaper).
Guest Presentation, Wesley Institute, 17 April.
Guest Open Lecture, Sydney University, 16 April 2002.
Guest Presentation, A Professional Development Day for Teachers, Powerhouse Museum, 3 November 2001.
Presentation, International Research Society fro Children's Literature Congress, South Africa, 20-24 August.
Guest Presentation, Catholic Education Professional Development Office, 13 August 2001.