Professor Phil Powrie
Academic and research departments
Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, Literature and Languages.About
Biography
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My latest published poems:
- '', ±á±ð²õ±èé°ù¾±±ð 3 (juillet 2025), pp.24-27.
- , morphrog 31 (July 2025).
- ‘’, The Lincoln Review 3 (June 2025), pp.1-3.
- , Nailpolish Stories (January 2025).
- '', Green Ink Poetry, Winter Solstice 24 (30 December 2024).
- ‘’, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Winter 2024, 52-53. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
My latest academic publication (June 2025): (both with Marie Cadalanu), in Comédies musicales à la française. Formes et mutations de l'opérette cinématographique, edited by Marie Cadalanu and Jérôme Rossi, Paris: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 100-113 and 365-382.
My latest book:
—‘a thought-provoking revision, a brilliant read on what we thought we knew’ (Kathryn Kalinak)
—‘wonderfully rich in its range…astonishing one with its revelation of the joyous and disturbing things musical moments can do’ (Richard Dyer)
—‘highly original analyses of hitherto marginalised films’ (Estella Tincknell)
Phil Powrie with Greg Hainge at Phil's public lecture as part of the University of Queensland's Distinguished ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½or Programme August 2018
Phil Powrie as Chair of BAFTSS opening the BAFTSS 2017 Conference in Bristol
Phil Powrie as Chair of BAFTSS with Sarah Street, winner of the Best Book Award at the BAFTSS conference in London 2014
Phil Powrie as Executive Dean opening the International Guitar Centre 2014, with the guitarist John Williams, Steve Goss, the Director of the Centre, and Nadine Powrie
Phil Powrie as Executive Dean signing an MOU at the Taiwan Embassy in 2014
Phil Powrie as ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Professor with Beijing Film Academy's PhD students in 2013
Phil Powrie as ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Lecturer with the Head of Film at Shanghai Theatre Academy 2010
Phil Powrie with the undergraduate film class at the Shanghai Theatre Academy 2010
Phil Powrie reappointed as ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Professor at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2010
Phil Powrie, Will Higbee and James Williams on the panel Phil and Peter Barta organised for the conference on Bicultural Literature and Film 2010
ResearchResearch interests
I have written across the range of French cinema, including silent cinema as well as recent French films. In 1999 I was made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for services to French cinema.
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Indicators of esteem
Distinguished ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½or Programme, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2018
¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Professor, Beijing Film Academy 2012-2014
¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Professor, Central Academy of Drama (Beijing) since 2005
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques 1999
Research interests
I have written across the range of French cinema, including silent cinema as well as recent French films. In 1999 I was made Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for services to French cinema.
Please visit to see details. You can see a .
Indicators of esteem
Distinguished ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½or Programme, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2018
¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Professor, Beijing Film Academy 2012-2014
¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ing Professor, Central Academy of Drama (Beijing) since 2005
Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques 1999