Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen has undertaken research in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Her research focuses on building transdisciplinary understanding of sexuality and gender across diverse lifeworlds, taking account of issues related to sexual citizenship, cultural and religious difference and technologies of sexuality, education and health. She is co-editor, with Louisa Allen, of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education.

BA Hons (Uni Melb.) Grad Dip Ed. (UCAN) PhD (UniSA)

Feminist theories and gender studies; Queer theory and queer studies; Gender, sexuality and education; Social and cultural studies of health and wellbeing; Young people and sexuality; Queer Archives; Reproduction and climate crisis; Australian sexual publics.

My book with Celia Roberts, Louisa Allen and Rebecca Williamson, Reproduction, Kin and  Climate Crisis: Making Bushfire Babies, (Bristol University Press) is based on research into the 2019-20 bushfires in South Eastern Australia. 

While the forthcoming (Bloomsbury), Queer Generations: LGBTQ Growing up, Belonging and Sexual Citizenship, presents the experiences of two social generations of LGBTQ people in Australia (those born in the 1970s and those born in the 1990s) as they navigate a period of unprecedented social and political transformation. It draws on compelling narrative accounts and rich historical data to advance new theoretical perspectives on belonging and sexual citizenship.