Fleur Diamond is a lecturer in English (L1) and literacy education in the School of Curriculum, Teaching and Inclusive Education, Faculty of Education, Monash University.

Fleur's research focuses on the professional identities of teachers, investigating how teachers negotiate with different understandings of teacher professionalism over the course of their careers. With an emphasis on critical scholarship on the impact of performative and standardised constructions of teachers' work, she has published book chapters and articles about teachers' lives and practices. Changes to subject English (L1) over time, and how these changes reflect competing priorities as to the aims and purposes of literacy education, is also an area of interest. As a praxis based researcher, Fleur also investigates her practices as a teacher educator and publishes inquiries into teacher education and academic work.

Prior to her work as a lecturer in English education, Fleur taught English, Literature, and Theory of Knowledge (IB) for 13 years in Melbourne schools. Her PhD was in feminist poetics; gender theory and literary studies remain enduring themes in her research.

Fleur’s teaching commitments include units in the Bachelor of Education, Masters of Teaching and Masters of Education programs at Monash. Her teaching specialisation is English (L1) and literacies.

Fleur uses narrative, life history, case study, autoethnographic and duoethnographic research methods and supervises research higher degrees using qualitative methods. 

EDF5135 English in the Secondary Years A

EDF5136 English in the Secondary Years B

EDF4009 English and literacies 4: Teaching non-traditional texts

EDF5852 Leading English and literacy in the Primary School

EDF4047 Leading literacy learning