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Dr Marcella Polain

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6322
Email: m.polain@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML17.214  

Marcella is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia.
  • Graduate Diploma in Education, Other WA higher ed institution, 1985.
  • Graduate Diploma in English, Curtin University of Technology, 1984.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Curtin University of Technology, 1982.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Adji, T., Polain, M. (2022). ‘We cannot heal what we will not face’: dismantling the cultural trauma and the May ’98 riots in Rani P Collaborations’ Chinese Whispers. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 13(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2021.1880456.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Kaye, N., Adams, L., Polain, M., Terry, S. (2021). Contested Spaces. [multimedia]. There Is Gallery, Perth, WA.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Polain, M. (2019). Driving into the Sun. Fremantle Press. Fremantle Press.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P., Polain, M., Wallace, V. (2018). LORCA (fragments), LORCA (fragmentos). Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Polain, M. (2015). 'Do not confuse it with any kind of absence'. Literary Ark 2014, Literary Ark April. AOKS.
  • Polain, M., Uhlmann, P. (2015). cloud stutter. fold.
  • Polain, M., Uhlmann, P., Day, P. (2015). untitled (artist's book at Impact 9). fold.
  • Polain, M. (2015). A hill road. Westerly. Westerly Centre, UWA.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Uhlmann, P., Polain, M., Pedersen, F. (2014). Conversations with ghosts. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Polain, M. (2014). Micheline Aharonian Marcom and the hamam shoes. Westerly. Westerly Centre, University of Western Australia.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Polain, M. (2013). The Curtain Man. antiTHESIS. School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Francis, M., Pollitt, J., Leach, P., Polain, M. (2012). Quiet Beast. Jo Pollitt and Paea Leach.
  • Polain, M. (2012). A calf is an animal. Westerly. Westerly Centre, University of Western Australia.
  • Polain, M. (2012). Vanessa Wallace: emerging from ground - Artist Profile. Imprint Volume 47 Number 4. Print Council of Australia Inc.
  • Polain, M. (2012). Quiet beast - text. Quiet beast.
  • Polain, M. (2012). Quiet beast - voice performance. Jo Pollitt and Paea Leach.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Polain, M. (2011). Beautiful negatives. The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and other stories. Fremantle Press.

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Polain, M. (2007). The Edge of the World. The edge of the world / Marcella Polain. Fremantle Press.

Research Projects

  • ‘The stubborn murmur’: The Armenian Genocide in artistic decision., Edith Cowan University, ECU Early Career Researcher Grant - 2012 (Round 1), 2012 ‑ 2014, $24,879.
  • 'Deep Within My Soul': Recovering Memory in Bilingual Early Alzheimer's Patients, Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration - Grant, 2008 ‑ 2013, $25,282.

Research Student Supervision

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, US Armenian Female Playwrights Writing the Catastrophe in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Principal Supervisor

  • Master of Arts, 'Cooper street'(original screenplay) and "into the foreground - an examination of setting within the screenplay"
  • Master of Arts, 'Cooper street'(original screenplay) and "into the foreground - an examination of setting within the screenplay"
  • Master of Arts by Research, One night in Hong Kong a novella and sexuality, desire and the aging female body an essay
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A coat of ashes. A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: A poetics: A set of critical essays.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, "Wonderfully ordinary" words from a romantic archive of Elizabeth Jolley's writing for students: Creative process as a garland of fragments
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Navigating the Wreck: writing women's experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore
  • Master of Arts, 'Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God'.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Swamp, walking the wetlands of the Swan coastal plain, with the exegesis 'A walk in the Anthropocene'.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Creativity and illness: An anecdotal exploration of a writing practice. Coming undone: a collection of poems & a thesis as an anecdotal exploration of a writing practice
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Amnesiac. A stage play. - and - playwriting migration: Silence, memory and repetition. an exegesis
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Homing
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Who is it that writes? Poetry and the plural self
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Carousel - novel. Writing into the apocalypse - an examination of the method of writing into the dark within the context of post-apocalyptic fiction.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Carousel - novel. Writing into the apocalypse - an examination of the method of writing into the dark within the context of post-apocalyptic fiction.

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Death's laughter
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Vulvodynia and autoethnography

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Writing as dancing: The dancer in your hands, a novella
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The womb artist - a novel: Translating late discovery adoptee pre-verbal trauma into narrative.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, No place for a white woman? An exploration of the interplay of gender, race and class on power relations experienced by white Western women in cross- cultural settings
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Alexandre goes South: A novel and an essay, 'the modern adventure novel'.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Repositioning the Denkbild: A painting investigation into deaths in custody in 21st century Australia.
  • Master of Arts, 'Inside schizophrenia: Mending the internal conflict' plus essay on schizophrenia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A fabulist's alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Vessels for the Devil: Exploring the rhetoric of the monstrous-feminine in graphic culture
  • Doctor of Philosophy, myfriendkoolkiller
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The historian's daughter (a novel) monsters and memory (an essay)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Framing anorexia: A play script and multidimensional investigation of anorexia.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Mind the gap - an examination of the pause in modern theatre; shadows - a play (major creative work); bank accounts - a collage of monologues (minor creative work).
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Constellations - a space in time that's filled with moving
  • Master of Arts by Research, I walk to see, I walk to know: Walking to Wongawol
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Creatively pursuing persona: Finding identity through directing
  • Master of Arts, The naming of places.
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