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. It defines practising in rigorous philosophical terms and in conversation with literary, artistic and lived paradigms. 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.
Between 2017-2019, she was Chair of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, peak body for tertiary writing programs, and continues to advise on its Executive Committee, and between 2013-2020 was Course Director/Head of Discipline for the Bachelor of Creative Writing at Deakin.
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.
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @AntoniaPont & @DrAntoniaPont