Associate ProfessorPaul Venzo

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • +61 3 556 33210 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Teaching areas include undergraduate and postgraduate units in creative writing, children's literature and literary studies.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Short stories based on scientific abstracts as a creative tool to communicate science
    Masoud Irani - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Wog Permaculture and the Aesthetics of Economy
    Anataglia Mannello - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    This Promised Land: Reframing Postwar Australian Jewish Narratives
    Bram Presser - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    jane: On Austen. An Essay in Novel Form
    Janet Ann Fuller - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Transgender protagonists: A comparative analysis of transgender identities in young adult fiction
    Jai Martin - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Humour, Place and Authenticity in a Memoir of a Semi-Rural Australian Childhood
    John Carvan - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Trauma and Testimony in Contemporary Crime Fiction
    Karen Lyon - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    THE BUNGALOW ALICE SPRINGS 1914-1929
    Linda Wells - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Borderline Funny: Humour, Self-Writing, and the Translation of Multicultural Hybridity
    David Petkovic - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Using Childrens Literature to Teach Marine Science Concepts
    Catia Jose Abreu De Freitas - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Literal Objectification: How Anthropomorphic Picturebooks Signify Gender Ideologies
    Melanie Britt Persson - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025