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
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/c.bolland
Supervision
Current supervisions
- A Peculiar Crime in Need of a Peculiar Detective: Existential Detecting at the End of the World
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rohan Wilson - Longform multimedia reporting and design journalism a practice-led approach: Brisbane and The Black Dragon
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jason Sternberg, Dr Rich Evans
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Beyond the Pink and Fluffy: Centering Tiddaism, Indigeneity, and Intersectionality in the 'Chick Lit' Novel (2024)
- 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)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Mimesis, Materiality, and Interactivity: Multimodal Print Texts as Storyworld Artefacts for Reader Transportation (2025)
- The Things I Fear for Us: Australian Climate Fiction and the Emergence of Ecological Consciousness (2024)
- Crisis modes: Transforming patterns of ecocultural identity with the heterogeneous possibilities of creative nonfiction (2023)
- Trans joy: Examining and developing intersectional trans women in narrative comedy (2023)
- Fruitful Approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in Contemporary Australian Fiction (2022)
- Down in the River: Marcia's Identity Status Paradigm in the Cult Novel (2020)
- The Impossible Story: Arthur W. Frank's "Chaos Narrative" and Memoirs of Madness (2020)
- Blood on her hands: a practice-led approach to exploring violent heroines in dystopian fiction (2018)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.