NATIONALITY: Australian
CURRENT POSITIONS: Independent scholar, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor Western Sydney University
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Professor, University Western Sydney, Professor, James Cook University, Associate Professor University of New England
DEGREES: B.A. (Psychology and English); Dip.Ed.; B.Ed.; Ph.D. (UNE)
Bronwyn was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her work in early childhood at Uppsala University.
Her book Frogs and Snails and Feminist Tales has been translated into Swedish, German and Spanish and chapter 1 into Hindi.
She is author of 22 books and more than 150 book chapters and papers, many of them co-authored.
In 2023 she completed her book with Jane Speedy: The Arts of Living in a More-than-human World, published by DIO Press. See: https://www.diopress.com/the-arts-of-living
In 2023 she also published her novel for young adults, Aelfraeda and the Red City.
In 2019 she self-published New Lives in an Old Land. Re-turning to the Colonisation of New South Wales through Stories of my Parents and their Ancestors, which Brill re-published in 2021.
Entanglement in the World's Becoming and The Doing of New Materialist Inquiry was also published by Routledge in 2021.
Other books include Listening to Children. Being and Becoming, published in 2014 by Routledge; a children's story The Fairy Who Wouldn't Fly published in 2014 by the National Library of Australia; Deleuze and collaborative writing: An immanent plane of composition, with Wyatt, Gale and Gannon, published by Peter Lang in 2011; Place Pedagogy Change with Somerville, Power, Gannon and de Carteret, published by Sense Publishers in 2011; and Pedagogical Encounters, co-edited with Gannon was published with Peter Lang in 2009. Her first book, Life in the Classroom and Playground. The Accounts of Primary School Children has been re-issued by Routledge in their education classics series.
Bronwyn was born in Tamworth, NSW Australia on January 10 1945. She attended the Tamworth Church of England Girls School, now called Calrossy. She has three sons and seven grandchildren. She has a BA, B.Ed and PhD from the University of New England, where she worked through the 70s, 80s and early 90s. She was a professor of Education at James Cook University and then at the University of Western Sydney before becoming an independent scholar in 2009, and also a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, and Emeritus Professor at Western Sydney University.