Christina
Stachurski
Qualifications
- Ph.D. (Canterbury)
- M.A. (Canterbury)
- Dip. Teaching (Christchurch)
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Internal Phone: 7906
christina.stachurski@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
English Programme
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
Physical address:
Room 320, English/Education Building
Office Hours:
TBA
Teaching
- ENGL 118 Special Topic: Creative Writing: Skills, Techniques and Strategies
- ENGL 304 Drama: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Supervision
Background
An award winning playwright and theatre director, Christina has been involved in theatre from an early age, also as an actor, stage manager and designer, and producer of outdoor Shakespeare for the Christchurch City Council's SummerTimes (1993/4). Her M.A. is in New Zealand drama and her doctorate in New Zealand fiction focuses upon issues of ethnic identity. She has been a visiting lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education, often a guest lecturer in English, University of Canterbury (Once Were Warriors and New Zealand drama and film) and taught creative writing for Continuing Education, the School for Young Writers and the Books & Beyond Festival. Christina has also acted a guest poetry editor for Takahe, one-act play festival adjudicator and judge of the secondary schools' Peter Smart Poetry Competition. She very much enjoyed her time as Writer in Residence at Hagley College in 2006.
Publications
Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York. 2009.
Hot Stuff (1996) Aoraki Festival Playwriting Award. Productions in Christchurch, Queenstown and Golden Bay.
Domestic Blitz (2004). Pavlova Productions, Christchurch. Selected by Playmarket and Downstage for the prestigious Adam Play Reading series, 2004.
Love, Babe (originally Oracle) (2005). Commission from Young & Hungry Trust. Premiere: Northland Youth Theatre, 2009.
SKOOL! (2006). Selected by Playmarket for the Aotearoa Playwrights' Conference, Hamilton 2006 and a rehearsed reading in Court Two. Premiere: Riccarton Players, Christchurch, 2009.
Director of over twenty productions for various collectives, recreational theatre groups, Playmarket's National Young Playwrights' Conference and Feast of New Theatre, one of which was the national winning entry, NZ Theatre Federation's One Act Play Festival (1990).
Poetry published in Takahe, The Press and The Chook Book (2004), ed. Bernadette Hall.
Editor, My Garden, My Paradise: New Zealand Writing About Gardens. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2003.
The Essay Writing Guide (co-editor with Gareth Corderey, Rob Jackaman, Rosey Mabin and Gordon Spence). Department of English, University of Canterbury. 1996.
The Third Degree (co-editor with Jill Tetley). Christchurch: University of Canterbury Students' Association, 1994. A report and recommendations based on a survey of postgraduate students' experience at the University of Canterbury.
"Scenes of the Crime: Returning to the Past. Michelanne Forster's Daughters of Heaven." Modern Drama. Vol. XL, no. 1. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1997. 111-122.
"The Personal is Political: Michael James Manaia." Journal of New Zealand Literature. No 14, 2001. 125-138.
Entries about NZ playwrights and novelists, Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English. London: Routledge, 2005.
Entry about Greg McGee. The Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com
“A Third Dimension? The Dynamics of Fancy Dress.” The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the Twenty-first Century. Eds. Howard McNaughton & Adam Lam. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2006. 92-99.