Dean's Lecture Series - Maxine Beneba Clarke on being a Black female author on the school curriculum

Recorded on 08 March 2023 00:04 Dean's Welcome and Intro to Maxine Beneba Clarke 08:00 Maxine Beneba Clarke's Presentation Topic: Talking Back: Being a Black female author on the school curriculum Maxine Beneba Clarke's short fiction collection Foreign Soil was on the VCE Text List in Victoria for 5 years, and is currently on the QCAA (Queensland) text list. Her memoir The Hate Race is currently on the VCE English text list, and her works have been taught throughout primary and secondary schools in Australia. As an author, she has visited over 40 Victorian classrooms to speak with students about her work. In this lecture, Maxine speaks about her experience as an author in Australian classrooms, and how this experience has informed her writing and creating practice.