Rate My Professor Christine Prentice

Christine Prentice serves as Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of English and Linguistics within the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago. She earned her MA and PhD from the University of Canterbury. Her academic interests encompass New Zealand Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Studies. These areas define her contributions to literary scholarship, where she has taught courses on New Zealand, postcolonial, and women's literature.

Throughout her tenure at the University of Otago, Prentice has made notable editorial contributions, co-editing Playlunch: Five Short New Zealand Plays with Lisa Warrington, published in 1996 by Otago University Press as part of Otago Studies in English 4. This anthology features short plays by New Zealand playwrights, underscoring her engagement with national dramatic literature. Her supervisory role has significantly impacted graduate research, guiding numerous PhD theses across diverse literary topics. Supervised works include Abid Vali's Transnational Collaborations in Modernism: Swami and Yeats, Fenollosa and Pound (2013), Anne Marie Begg's Brand New Zealand: Media Governmentality and Affective Biopower (2012), L.M. Rodenburg's Spiral Reading Strategies: Re/citing Māori and Aboriginal Stories in Relation to the Nation (2011), D. O'Donnell's Re-staging History: Historiographic Drama from New Zealand and Australia (1999), S. Parvaiz's Indochine, L'Autre: De L'Identité Culturelle Dans L'Oeuvre Romantique De Marguerite Duras (2011), and M.R.H. Khan's Hope in the Anthropocene: Eco-collectivism and Twenty-First Century Cli-Fi (2023). Additional supervisions cover bicultural theatre praxis and subject formation in the Māori novel. Her ongoing involvement is evident in recent supervisions addressing climate crisis narratives in works like Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. Based in the Arts Building, Humanities, Dunedin, she maintains an active academic presence.