
Doctoral (University of Sydney), Bachelor of Education (Honours) (University of Sydney)
Dr Kelli McGraw is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education Social Justice at QUT. Currently teaching units in Secondary English curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, her prior experience includes teaching high school English and debating in Southwest Sydney, NSW. Kelli researches the fields of English curriculum studies, secondary school assessment, teacher identity, digital literacy, popular culture and new media texts. She is presently researching:
- project-based learning in the junior English classroom
- changes to curriculum and assessment in Queensland senior English
- student voice and student agency in secondary school assessment in Australia.
Additional information
Kelli is the Treasurer of the English Teachers Association of Queensland, and Vice President of Queensland Poetry. She is the editor for the peer-reviewed journal English in Australia, and the lead author of a student textbook series for the new senior English syllabus (units 1-4) in Queensland published through Oxford University Press.
- McGraw, K., Williams, L. & Johnson, S. (2019). English for Queensland: Units 1 and 2. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122884
- McGraw, K. & van Leent, L. (2018). Textual constraints: Queering the Senior English text list in the Australian Curriculum. English in Australia, 53(2), 28–39. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122885
- McGraw, K., (2017). Identity formation: Consumerism and popular culture. In B. Gobby & R. Walker (Eds.), Powers of curriculum: Sociological perspectives on education (pp. 243–264). Oxford University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/113965
- Bulfin, S. & McGraw, K. (2015). Digital literacy in theory, policy and practice: old concerns, new opportunities. Teaching and digital technologies: Big issues and critical questions, 266–281. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89098
- Ullman, J. & McGraw, K. (2014). Troubling silences and taboo texts: constructing safer and more positive school climates for same-sex-attracted high school students in Australia. In EJ. Meyer & D. Carlson (Eds.), Gender and sexualities in education: a reader [Gender and Sexualities in Education, Volume 5] (pp. 298–312). Peter Lang Publishing. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/77993
- Gottschall, K., Gannon, S., Lampert, J. & McGraw, K. (2013). The Cyndi Lauper affect: Bodies, girlhood and popular culture. Girlhood Studies, 6(1), 30–45. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61109
- Doecke, B., Parr, G., Macintyre, P., Bellis, N., Bulfin, S., McGraw, K., McNeice, L., Moni, K. & Simmons, G. (2011). English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 [English for the Australian Curriculum Series].
- What happened to poetry writing? Re-imagining the teaching of poetry in Queensland's high stakes assessment environment
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Sarah Holland-Batt