Mr Craig Bolland
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts,
Creative Writing
Biography
Craig has been a casual academic with QUT since 2002 and became a permanent member of staff in 2005, lecturing in Creative Writing.Before joining QUT, Craig was the director of a corporate communications consultancy and worked to develop written, video and multimedia materials with clients like the United Nations, State and Federal Government departments and large private enterprises.Craig is the winner of multiple awards and grants for his short film scripts and stage plays, including the Comalco/Queensland Theatre Company Young Playwright Award. His first novel, I Knit Water, was shortlisted for both the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and the One Book One Brisbane campaign. He is a regular literary critic with The Courier Mail.Craig's research interests include creative writing pedagogy, blended learning theory, online communities, and collaborative approaches to manuscript development.You can find out more about Craig at his website.Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts,
Creative Writing
Research field
Other creative arts and writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Master of Arts (Research) (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Craig, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Non-Place and Ma: The Writing of Nowhere (2019)
- The Wounds of Separation: A Graphic Memoir About Forced Migration (2019)
- This House is Full of Shadows: A Post-Jungian Analysis of the Contemporary Family Homecoming Drama (2019)
- The Architect of Forking Paths: Developing Key Writing Strategies for Interactive Writers (2018)
- Writing the Visible Page: A Multimodal Approach to Graphic Devices in Literary Fiction (2013)
- The Artful Life Story: The Oral History Interview as Fiction (2012)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Blood on her hands: a practice-led approach to exploring violent heroines in dystopian fiction (2018)
- The idea of women: representations of power in the work of Charles Bukowski (2014)
- Carnivore: An investigation into the ways that serial killers in The Silence of the Lambs, American Psycho and Darkly Dreaming Dexter are representative of consumers (2013)
- Point of no return: Exploring katabatic narrative and deterritorialisation in the Australian outback novel (2013)