Dr Anna Poletti - Researcher Profile

Biography

Anna works in the Faculty of Arts as a Lecturer in English. Her research interests are autobiography, feminist and queer literary theory, and print cultures. Her work examines narratives of self and self-making beyond the book, including in zines, online, and in documentary film. 

Research & Supervision Interests

Life narrative, narratives of self-making, reading affect, print cultures, in particular the materiality of texts and economies of circulation.

Keywords

Literary Studies, Life narrative, Print cultures,

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: The University of Newcastle

Year awarded: 2006

Publications

Books

Klabbers, J., Poletti, A. (eds), 2011, M / C Journal, Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty, Qld, Australia.

Whitlock, G., Poletti, A.L. (eds), 2008, Biography Special Issue : An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Poletti, A.L., 2008, Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton Vic Australia.

Poletti, A.L., Atkinson, P. (eds), 2008, Southern Review: Tesimonial Limits, RMIT University, School of Applied Communication, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Journal Articles

Poletti, A.L., Cooper, S.K., 2012, Intermittent transparency: findings from a freedom of information request into the Excellence in Research for Australia journal ranking process, Australian Humanities Review [E], vol 53, issue November, Australian National University, School of Humanities, http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/, pp. 1-10.

Poletti, A.L., 2012, Reading for excess: Relational autobiography, affect and popular culture in Tarnation, Life Writing [E], vol 9, issue 2, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 157-172.

Poletti, A., 2011, Coaxing an intimate public: Life narrative in digital storytelling, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies [P], vol 25, issue 1, Routledge, Australia, pp. 73-83.

Poletti, A., 2011, Intimate economies: Postsecret and the affect of confession, Biography [E], vol 34, issue 1, University of Hawaii Press, United States, pp. 25-36.

Cooper, S., Poletti, A., 2011, The new ERA of journal ranking: The consequences of Australia's fraught encounter with 'quality', Australian Universities Review [P], vol 53, issue 1, National Tertiary Education Union, South Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 57-65.

Poletti, A.L., 2008, Auto/assemblage: reading the zine, Biography (Honolulu): An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol 31, issue 1, University of Hawaii Press, Journals Department, Hawaii United States, pp. 85-102.

Poletti, A.L., Atkinson, P., 2008, Editorial: The Limits of Testimony, Southern Review-Adelaide [P], vol 40, issue 3, RMIT University, School of Applied Communication, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-6.

Poletti, A.L., Whitlock, G., 2008, Self-Regarding Art, Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly [P], vol 31, issue 1, University of Hawai'i Press, Manoa Hawai'i, pp. v-xxii.

Poletti, A.L., 2006, A people's history of Australian zines: introduction, Heat 11: Sheltered Lives, vol 0, issue 11, Giramondo Publishing, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 16-22.

Conference Proceedings

Poletti, A.L., 2005, Self-publishing in the global and local: situating life writing in zines, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly: Inhaviting Multiple Worlds, 15 March 2004 to 18 March 2004, University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii USA, pp. 183-192.

Poletti, A.L., 2003, Life writing in zines: memory, public spaces and intimacy, New Media Poetics: Critical Animals, 3 October 2003 to 5 October 2003, University of Newcastle, http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/poetics/issue-03/index-03.htm, pp. 1-7.

Other

Poletti, A., 2011, Staying sticky, Imprint, Print Council of Australia, North Melbourne Vic Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Children of the Fence: Developing new literacies through trans-media narratives.

Supervisors:

Do Rozario, R (Main), Poletti, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Defence and Decline: The Literature of War and its Impact on Collective Memory..

Supervisors:

Lokuge, C (Main), Poletti, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Fingersmiths: Queer stylistics in the work of Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, and Dorothy Allison.

Supervisors:

Poletti, A (Main), Harvey, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

I for Isolation: An examination of a woman's place in the fiction of Amy Witting..

Supervisors:

Kossew, S (Main), Poletti, A (Associate).