Dr Christopher Pollnitz
Conjoint Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science (English and Writing)
Career Summary
Biography
Dr Pollnitz's interests include contemporary Australian Literature, particularly poetry, which he has written about in articles and reviews. While his interests in English poetry extend into the nineteenth-century, his research is focused on the Modernist period, notably D H Lawrence. He is preparing a variorum of the Poems for the Cambridge University Press edition of Lawrence's Works.
Research Expertise
Most of my publications have been on twentieth-century writers, specifically poets, with a focus on D. H. Lawrence. Increasingly, the articles on D. H. Lawrence have also been focused on this writers' poetry, and on a series of articles about the transmission of the texts of Lawrence's poems and the problems of editing his poetry for the Cambridge University Press edition of Lawrence's _Works_. In addition to this focus, however, I have also regularly published on later twentieth-century Australian poets, notably Les Murray, John Scott and Alan Wearne. Included among this work is an article on the Australian verse novel.
Teaching Expertise
I have taught courses in English literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but my specialist periods are English Romanticism, and Modernism. Currently, I also coordinate and teach courses on creative writing and a course on the uses of poetry in the secondary and primary classroom. As a published poet, I am frequently called on to supervise postgraduate students, both novelists and poets, in the Creative Writing program.
Administrative Expertise
I have served as head of the discipline of English and convenor of the Honours English program, but my preference is for coordinating of undergraduate courses.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Leicester - UK
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Adelaide
Keywords
- Australian poetry
- D H Lawrence
- Editing
- English literature
- Twentieth-century literature
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (2 outputs)
Chapter (5 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2011 | Pollnitz CP, Kavanagh PL, 'A History', Completely Surrounded: Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize, 1981-2011, Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, NSW 3-5 (2011) [B2] | ||
2009 | Pollnitz CP, 'Keeping his flag flying: Censorship and Lawrence?s poetry', Windows to the Sun: D. H. Lawrence's, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey 165-186 (2009) [B1] | ||
2006 | Pollnitz CP, 'John A Scott', Australian Writers, 1975-2000, Gale Cengage, Detroit, Michigan 289-296 (2006) [B1] | ||
2006 | Pollnitz CP, 'Alan Wearne', Australian Writers, 1975-2000, Gale Cengage, Detroit, Michigan 322-329 (2006) [B1] | ||
2005 | Pollnitz CP, 'Murray, Les (1938-)', Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge, London 1062-1064 (2005) [B2] | ||
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Journal article (24 outputs)
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2015 | Pollnitz CP, 'Using the Cambridge 'Poems' and auditing Lawrence's Sacred Dramas', D. H. Lawrence Review, 40 11-33 (2015) | ||||
2013 | Pollnitz CP, 'Christopher Pollnitz reviews Clear Brightness by Kim Cheng Boey', Mascara Literary Review, 1-3 (2013) [C3] | ||||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, 'Writing the Australian bush: DH Lawrence's wildflowers', The Conversation, (2012) [C3] | ||||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, 'Bethan Jones, The last poems of D. H. Lawrence: Shaping a late style [Book Review]', Notes and Queries, 59 453-455 (2012) [C3] | ||||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, 'D. H. Lawrence and Judith Wright: Overlapping modernisms', D. H. Lawrence Studies, 20 1-35 (2012) [C1] | ||||
2009 | Pollnitz CP, 'Botanists and poets: How to introduce an Asphodel', Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 2 171-182 (2009) [C1] | ||||
2008 | Pollnitz CP, 'Selected poems, complete with warts', Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 1 149-159 (2008) [C1] | ||||
2006 | Pollnitz CP, 'Travel and Transmission: Textual Instability in the Tourist Poems of Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers', Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies, 59-89 (2006) [C1] | ||||
2005 |
Pollnitz CP, 'The Censorship and Transmission of D.H. Lawrence's Pansies: The Home Office and the 'Foul-Mouthed Fellow'', Journal of Modern Literature, 28 44-71 (2005) [C1]
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2005 | Pollnitz CP, 'Homosexuality, Violence and Belonging in Kangaroo', The Journal of the D.H. Lawrence Society, 7-31 (2005) [C2] | ||||
2004 | Pollnitz CP, 'Australian Verse Novels', Heat, 7 229-252 (2004) [C1] | ||||
2004 | Pollnitz CP, 'Norman Talbot: In Memoriam', SOUTHERLY, 64 115-118 (2004) [C3] | ||||
2003 | Pollnitz CP, 'Watermarks in a Cigar Box: Findings in DH Lawrence's Manuscript Verse', D. H. Lawrence Review, 31 1-19 (2003) [C1] | ||||
2001 |
Cram D, Pollnitz CP, 'D. H. Lawrence as Verse Translator', The Cambridge Quarterly, 2 133-150 (2001) [C1]
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2001 | Pollnitz CP, 'Folie, Topography and Family in Murray's Middle-Distance Poems', Australian Literary Studies, 20, 2 43-63 (2001) [C1] | ||||
2001 | Pollnitz CP, 'Criticism, Biography and Les Murray', Heat, New Series, No. 1 229-242 (2001) [C1] | ||||
2000 | Pollnitz CP, 'A Primer for Postmoderns', Antipodes, 14 76-77 (2000) [C3] | ||||
2000 | Pollnitz CP, 'Smuggling the Heart into the New Millennium', Ulitarra, 17/18 190-198 (2000) [C3] | ||||
1999 | Pollnitz CP, '"Sniffing the Humus: Where Did Lawrence's Pansies Spring From?"', Etudes Lawrenciennes, 20 (1999) 39-58 (1999) [C3] | ||||
1999 | Pollnitz CP, 'The Monkey Puzzle Tree in ?Eden'', D. H. Lawrence Society Newsletter, No. 64 16-18 (1999) [C3] | ||||
1999 | Pollnitz CP, '?Combed into line': The Rhythm of Perception in [Robert] Gray's Verse', mETAphor, June 1999 16-22 (1999) [C3] | ||||
1998 | Pollnitz CP, '"A Suburban Sunday"', D.H.Lawrence Society Newsletter, 62 15-16 (1998) [C3] | ||||
1998 | Pollnitz CP, '"[Review of] D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, ed. Mara Kalnins, Cambridge: Cambridge UP"', Notes and Queries, 243 508-509 (1998) [C3] | ||||
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Review (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2012 | Pollnitz CP, 'D.H. Lawrence. Last Poems', The Literary Encyclopedia (2012) [D2] |
Creative Work (22 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2014 | Pollnitz CP, Eight poems (2014) | ||
2013 | Pollnitz CP, Satin bower bird; Kookaburra; White-bellied sea-eagle, Wahroonga, NSW (2013) [J2] | ||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, American Idylls: I Mt Vernon, Mascara Literary Review, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2] | ||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, American Idylls: II New Jersey, Mascara Literary Review, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2] | ||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, American Idylls: III The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, Mascara Literary Review, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2] | ||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, American Idylls: IV Ground Zero, Mascara Literary Review, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2] | ||
2012 | Pollnitz CP, American Idylls: V The Whitman Way, Mascara Literary Review, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia (2012) [J2] | ||
2010 | Pollnitz CP, Little Eagle and other poems, Warners Bay, NSW (2010) [J1] | ||
2010 | Pollnitz CP, American Idylls: V Takoma, Poetry at the Pub (Newcastle) Inc, Hamilton, NSW (2010) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Whistles in the wind: Melancholy songs for End-of-season, 1998, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Round 20, 1999: Plugger redivivus, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, New Year dirge: End-of-season, 1997, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Round 16, 1999: Good-hair days, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hu (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Round 21, 1999: Totemism and exogamy, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Round 10, 2000: Sailing to Thirroul, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Round 5, 2001: Freak goals, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, Round 14, 2001: Riesling light, Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2002 | Pollnitz CP, 'Major Round 2001: I. m. Fos Williams, 1922?2001', Black Inc., Best Australian Sports Writing 2002, ed. Garrie Hutchinson (2002) [J2] | ||
2001 | Pollnitz CP, 'The Factory-Worker in All Things'; 'Election Eve, Newcastle'; 'Spinifex as Blond Beast', Catchfire Press, Newcastle, N.S.W. (2001) [J2] | ||
2000 | Pollnitz CP, Kissing Berkeley goodbye, Ulitarra Literary Association, Armidale (2000) [J2] | ||
2000 | Pollnitz CP, Spinifex as Blond Beast, Lake Macquarie City Council, Speers Point (2000) [J2] | ||
2000 | Pollnitz CP, Day of the Blue Tigers, Catchfire Press, Newcastle (2000) [J2] | ||
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 9 |
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Total funding | $34,108 |
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20071 grants / $1,700
The 11th International D.H. Lawerence Conference, East wood and the The University of Nottingham, 16/8/2007 - 21/8/2007$1,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0187397 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20061 grants / $1,460
2006 International D. H Lawrence Conference: The Poetics of Movement and Travel in D.H Lawrence 30 March - 1 April 2006$1,460
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2006 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | G0186139 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20041 grants / $2,373
10th International D. H. Lawrence Conference: 26 June - 1 July 2005$2,373
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0184987 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20021 grants / $6,500
Reception of D.H. Lawrence's poems, in the USA, for the Cambridge University Press Poems$6,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0181322 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19981 grants / $3,500
Research for the Cambridge University Press variorum edition of D.H. Lawrence's Poems finalising the textual transmission of Pansies.$3,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1998 |
Funding Finish | 1998 |
GNo | G0177335 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19971 grants / $5,000
Documentary study of D H Lawrence's Fire and research for the Cambridge poems$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1997 |
Funding Finish | 1997 |
GNo | G0176592 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19951 grants / $4,700
Lawrence Project 1995: Variorum edition of the 'Poems' of DH Lawrence, for Cambridge University Press, in four volumes, focusing in 1995 on the apparatus for..$4,700
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1995 |
Funding Finish | 1995 |
GNo | G0174931 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19931 grants / $4,000
Lawrence Project 1993: Variorum Edition of Poems, for Cambridge University Press, in four volumes$4,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1993 |
Funding Finish | 1993 |
GNo | G0172765 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19921 grants / $4,875
Lawrence Project 1992 : Poems, Vols Ii And Iv$4,875
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Doctor Christopher Pollnitz |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1992 |
Funding Finish | 1992 |
GNo | G0174200 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2015 | PhD | Getting Here | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | "The Convergence of the Twain": Romanticism and Naturalism in Thomas Hardy's Tragic Novels | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2008 | PhD | I Was Here | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2008 | PhD | Pound's Imponderabilia: Space and Community in the Poetry of Ezra Pound | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2008 | PhD | D A Contemporary Australian Dystopia: Novel and Critical Exegesis | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2005 | PhD | D.H. Lawrence's Poetry. The Contemporary Reception | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2005 | Masters | Charting Kate | M Creative Arts (English) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2004 | Masters | Are You Reading Me? Character and Identity in the First-Person Voice | M Creative Arts (English) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2003 | PhD | King Lear's Clothes: Addressing the Line in Twentieth Century Poetry | PhD (English), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2003 | Masters | Fresh Fields: Dysart's Dilemma | M Creative Arts (English) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2003 | Masters | Fantastic Street | M Creative Arts (English) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Dr Christopher Pollnitz
Position
Conjoint Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
English and Writing
Contact Details
christopher.pollnitz@newcastle.edu.au | |
Fax | (02) 4921 6933 |
Office
Building | McMullin |
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Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |