Antonia Pont

Antonia Pont is a widely-published essayist and poet, and leading scholar in the field of practising theory. Her 2021 monograph A Philosophy of Practising with Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Edinburgh University Press) is a foundational text, providing a new knowledge framework for creative practitioners working with time, habit, transformation, structure and making-methodologies. Antonia supervises doctoral students across literature, writing, and the creative arts, and teaches at undergraduate and Honours levels.Her established and emerging research interests include 20th and 21st century continental thought, Indigenous Knowledges, creativity and practising theory, movement/stillness methodologies, theories of time, and psychoanalysis, along with poetry, creative nonfiction and experimental/hybrid text forms.

In 2020, her poetry collection You Will Not Know in Advance what You’ll Feel (2019) was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award, and essays, such as ‘In Praise of a Plain Life’ (2017), ‘The Anatomy of a Trigger’ (2019), ‘On Leadership’ (2020), and ‘Private Practice …’ (2021), have gained her an international following.

She is the founding co-editor of c i n d e r  journal, and reviews for Cordite, TEXT journal and other scholarly and creative publications.

Current Deakin position: Associate Professor Writing and Literature

Deakin research: https://experts.deakin.edu.au/2225-antonia-pont

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