MARIA
PALLOTTA-CHIAROLLI
Senior Lecturer in the School of Health
and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne,
Australia, Maria writes and researches on social justice,
diversity and equity issues in education and health.
Her primary areas of interest are ethnicity, gender and
sexuality.
Maria is also an External Faculty Member of Saybrook
Graduate Centre, San Francisco, and is the Honorary Patron
of PFLAG Victoria in Australia.
Formerly a teacher for over a decade in a boys’ Catholic
school in Adelaide as well as the Gender and Equity Officer
for the Catholic Education Office in South Australia,
Maria was responsible for writing, consulting and implementing
the Gender & Equity Policy for all South Australian
Catholic Schools (1993). Maria has also lectured and
researched at the University of Adelaide, University
of South Australia, University of Technology, Sydney,
Macquarie University, NSW; and managed the research into
culturally diverse men who have sex with men for the
National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of
New South Wales.
Apart from academic chapters, research monographs and
journal articles, her publications include:
- Someone
You Know about a friend with AIDS (Wakefield
Press, 1991; new edition, 2002);
- Girls
Talk: Young Women Speak Their Hearts And Minds (Finch Publishing,
1998; second edition, 2006) which
is a research-based collection of over 150 culturally
and sexually diverse girls and young women’s
art and writing exploring relationships, health
and wellbeing
issues;
- Tapestry (Random House, 1999), a biographical narrative on five generations
of her Italian family,
exploring
shifting constructs of gender, sexuality and
ethnic identity. Tapestry was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s
Award in the Ethnic Affairs Commission category
and in
the Children’s
Book Council Non-Fiction Award
- Boys’ Stuff:
Talking About What Matters (Allen & Unwin,
2001). This involved research and collaboration
with 250 boys from around Australia, and was
co-researched
and co-edited with Dr Wayne Martino. The book
was shortlisted for four awards: a Western
Australian Premier’s
Award; the Australian Book Design Award; a
Human Rights Award; and was Highly Commended
in The
Australian Award
for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The
book has also been listed in the Australian
Centre for Youth Literature’s “150
Years, 150 Books: Victoria’s Most Treasured
Books” list.
- So
What’s
A Boy? Issues of Masculinity and Schooling (Open University
Press, 2003) involved research and collaboration
with 300 boys from around Australia, and
was
co-researched
and co-edited with Dr Wayne Martino. It
explores culturally and sexually diverse
boys’,
indigenous boys, and boys with disabilities
in relation to
education and health.
- When
Our Children Come Out: how to support gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgendered young people (Finch Publishing, 2005) that presents examples of what has been done
and
can been done to overcome homophobia within
families, schools and the wider community;
- "Being
Normal is the Only Thing To Be": Young
People’s Perspectives on Gender
in Schools (UNSW Press, 2005) co-written with Dr
Wayne Martino, based on research with
1000 young people in Australian
schools.
- Border
Sexualities, Border Families (Rowman & Littlefield,
forthcoming, 2007) that presents her
research with bisexual students and multisexual
families.
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