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Associate Professor Paul Millar

School of Humanities; English

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 6313
 Office: Locke Building (English) 323

Fields of Research

  • New Zealand literature
  • James K. Baxter, New Zealand poet and social commentator
  • Bill Pearson, New Zealand novelist and critic
  • Charles Brasch, New Zealand poet, critic and editor
  • J.C. Sturm, Maori poet and fiction writer
  • Maori and Pasifika literature in English
  • A.K. Grant, New Zealand satirist and commentator
  • China in the Australasian imagination
  • Literary biography
  • Australian writing
  • Creative non fiction
  • Humanities Computing, scholarly electronic editing

Researcher Summary

I research broadly in the areas of New Zealand, Australian and Pasifika Literature and I've recently developed an interest in the production of literary biography. My long term focus, on the poetry, prose and critical writing of James K. Baxter, dates from my study of Baxter's adolescent poetic development, published in 2001 as 'Spark to a Waiting Fuse.' I've since edited a number of Baxter volumes and collaborated on a documentary about the poet's life called 'Road to Jerusalem'. At present I'm co-authoring, with Geoff Miles and John Davidson of Victoria University,  a study of Baxter's use of classical mythology  (The Snake Haired Muse, forthcoming in 2011). My biography of novelist, critic and social commentator Bill Pearson was published in April 2010 by Auckland University Press as 'No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson'. I also have a long-standing interest in the relationship between humanities scholarship and digital technologies, and in 2001 I co-founded Victoria University's New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. Recently I was appointed director of the University of Canterbury's Humanities Computing Unit, where my major priority is to establish New Zealand's first course in electronic scholarly editing.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Research Projects

Research Groups

Future Research

  • My major focus now is on researching and writing a biography of the influential 20th century New Zealand poet, critic and editor Charles Orwell Brasch
  • I have an ongoing interest in the life and work of James K. Baxter, and am accumulating material towards a future critical biography

Key Methodologies

  • Scholarly editing theory and practice
  • Theory and practice of writing literary biography
  • Postcolonial literary criticism
  • New Historicist literary criticism

Equipment

Publications


  • Millar, P., Smithies, J.D. and Thomson, C. (2012) Digital Humanities and Disaster: The UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive. Wellington, New Zealand: NZ eResearch Symposium (NZERS 2012), 4-6 Jul 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P. and Thomson, C. (2011) Humanities Computing at the University of Canterbury. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: NZ eResearch Symposium 2011, 30 Jun 2011. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Carnegie, D., Millar, P., Norton, D. and Ricketts, H. (Ed.) (2011) Running Writing Robinson. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 391pp. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P. (2011) The Background to Bill Pearson's 'Fretful Sleepers': Two Excerpts from a Biography. In D. Carnegie, P. Millar, D. Norton and H. Ricketts (Ed.), Running Writing Robinson: 312-323, 379. Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Miles, G., Davidson, J. and Millar, P. (2011) The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Mythology. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 380pp. (Authored Book)
  • Millar, P., Steel, R. and Whaitiri, R. (2010) An Enigmatic Presence - A Tribute to J.C. Sturm 1927-2009. Auckland, New Zealand: Going West Books and Writers, 10 Sep 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Biography and Intimacy: The Pleasures and Problems of Creative Non-Fiction. Auckland, New Zealand: Copyright Licensing Limited Writers' Awards Ceremony, 16 Sep 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Fostering Teamwork for Honours and Postgraduate Students. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Learning and Teaching Forum, 21 May 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Inaugural Dan Davin Lecture. Invercargill, New Zealand: Dan Davin Lecture and Literary Awards, 1 Sep 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Memories of First Seeing Horseplay. In Horseplay Theatre Programme: 11-12. Auckland: Auckland Theatre Company. Print Booklet. (Other)
  • Millar, P. (2010) No Fretful Sleeper. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, 12-16 May 2010. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) No Fretful Sleeper. Wellington, New Zealand: International Institute of Modern Letters and The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Writers on Mondays, 30 Aug 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 380pp. (Authored Book)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Poems to Statues: Baxter, Burns and Henry Lawson. Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand: 'Dead Man's Ember': James K. Baxter and Robert Burns, 30 Nov 2010. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Selected Poems of James K. Baxter. Auckland: Auckland University Press. xxii+297pp. (Scholarly Edition)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Selected Poems: James K. Baxter. Manchester: Carcanet. xxii+298pp. (Scholarly Edition)
  • Millar, P. and Temple, P. (2010) The Lives of Others - Pearson and the Wakefields. The Michael King Writers' Centre Residential Workshop: Truth Lies Somewhere: Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, 24 Oct 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Uncovering a Secret Life: Writing the Biography of Bill Pearson. Philip Carter Auditorium, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand: Platform Arts Festival, 28 May 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P., Smither, E., Curnow, J., Wendt, A. and Simpson, P. (2010) Wearing half his heart on his sleeve.... Titirangi War Memorial Hall, New Zealand: Going West Books & Writers Weekend, 12 Sep 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2010) What if Bill Pearson's Novel Coal Flat had Kept its Homosexual Themes? In S. Levine (Ed.), New Zealand As It Might Have Been 2: 180-203. Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (2010) Writing No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: English Programme Public Seminar, 13 Apr 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2009) 'Suspension Always Has its Dangers.' Does New Zealand Writing Still Need a Sense of Social Tradition? Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: Antipodes: New Directions in History and Culture Aotearoa New Zealand, 3-5 Sep 2009. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P., Stafford, J. and Williams, M. (Ed.) (2008) Kōtare 2008. Special Issue - Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: 'Early Male Prose Writers'. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. Online. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Whi072Kota.html. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P., Stafford, J. and Williams, M. (Ed.) (2008) Kōtare: New Zealand Notes & Queries, 2007. Special Issue: Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series One: Women Prose Writers to World War 1. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. Online. http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Whi071Kota.html. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P., Larsen, D. and Rout, M. (2007) Montana New Zealand Book Awards: 2007 Judges Report. Booksellers New Zealand. (Report for External Body)
  • Millar, P. (2007) Return to Exile: James K. Baxter in India. In E. Thumboo (Ed.), Writing Asia: the Literatures in Englishes. Volume 1. From the Inside: Asia Pacific Literatures in Englishes: 493-511. Singapore: Ethos Books. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (2007) Textuality and the Grotesque in Vincent O'Sullivan's Believers to the Bright Coast. In B. Manhire and P. Whiteford (Ed.), Still Shines When You Think of It: A Festschrift for Vincent O’Sullivan: 300-317. Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (2007) Walking with Rush. Landfall 214(Nov. 2007): 100-110. Short story. (Other)
  • Millar, P. (2005) Canton Bromides: The Chinese Presence in Twentieth Century New Zealand Fiction. In C. Ferrall, P. Millar and K. Smith (Ed.), East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination: 156-172. Wellington: Victoria University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • C. Ferrall, P. Millar. and K. Smith. (Ed.) (2005) East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 439pp. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P. (2005) 'Nobody would have given tuppence for our chances': James K. Baxter & J.C. Sturm. In D. Shepard (Ed.), Between the Lives: Partners in Art: 137-165. Auckland: Auckland University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (2005) Thoughts that Move Like Delhi Oxen: James K. Baxter in Asia. Singapore: 11th Biennial Symposium of the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region, 8-10 December 2005. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P. (2004) New Zealand Literature, The Crisis and the Challenge. Groningen, The Netherlands: Presentation to the Groningen University Department of English Language and Culture, 16 November 2004. (Oral Presentation)
  • Millar, P. (2003) Hemi te Tutua/ Jim the Nobody: the "gap" and the "void" in the poetry of James K. Baxter. Stimulus: the New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice 11(1): 5-8. (Journal Article)
  • Millar, P. (2003) The Gap and the Void in the Poetry of James K. Baxter. Wellington, NZ: The 32nd Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association Conference, 10-12 February 2003. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P. (2003) William Harrison Pearson. Journal of New Zealand Literature 20 (2002)(April 2003): 162-165. (Journal Article)
  • Millar, P. (2002) So Dazzling a Creature: Pacific Island Writers in New Zealand Literature. In S. Mallon and P. Fulimalo Pereira (Ed.), Pacific Art Niu Sila: The Pacific Dimension of Contemporary New Zealand Arts: 161-173. Wellington: Te Papa Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (2001) Did Allen Curnow’s Dichtung Und Wahrheit make or break A Soldier’s Tale? Stout Research Centre , Wellington, NZ: Loaded Canons: Discourse & Power in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 28 Nov-1 Dec. 2001. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P. (Ed.) (2001) New Selected Poems: James K. Baxter. Auckland: Oxford University Press. 305pp. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P. (2001) Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter’s Correspondence with Noel Ginn 1942-1946. Wellington: Victoria University Press. 600pp. (Authored Book)
  • Millar, P. (2000) Baxter, James Keir. In New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs (Ed.), The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume 5, 1941-1960: 39-42. Auckland & Wellington: Auckland University Press & Department of Internal Affairs. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (2000) The Rent Due for a Skull: James K. Baxter and the Legacy of Parihaka. In G. O’Brien and L. Strongman (Ed.), Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance: 186-191. Wellington: City Gallery, Victoria University Press and Parihaka Pa Trustees. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1999) A Silent Country Which At Last Learned to be Articulate: The Depression and the Beginnings of New Zealand Fiction. Dunedin, NZ: Association of New Zealand Literature Conference on Sargeson, Hyde and the Beginnings of New Zealand Fiction, 3-5 September 1999. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Millar, P. (1999) Burning on: An Interview with Albert Wendt. New Zealand Books 9 (3)(Aug. 1999): 12. Wellington: Peppercorn Press. (Other)
  • Millar, P. (1999) Price Milburn. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 452. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) A Book of NZ Verse 1923-45 (1945). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 63-64. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Alcock, Peter. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 5-6. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Allan, Rob. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 7. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Alley, Rewi. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 8-9. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Autumn Testament (1972). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 34. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Baucke, William. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 43. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Baume, Eric. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 44-45. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Baxter, Archibald. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 45. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Beach, Eric. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 48-49. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Bell, George. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 51. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Bell, John. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 51. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Bertram, James. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 52. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Best, Elsdon. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 52-53. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Beyond the Palisade (1944). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 54-55. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness (1948). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 60-61. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Boreham, Frank. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 65. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Bornholdt, Jenny. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 65. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Burn, D.W.M.. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 79. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Butler, Dorothy. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 81. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Cape, Peter. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 91. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) China. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 104-105. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Cody, J.F. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 108. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Cold Spring (1996). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 109. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Cox, Geoffrey. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 116-117. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Cox, Nigel. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 117. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Dansey, Harry. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 128-129. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Davidson, William. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 130. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (Ed.) (1998) Dweller on the Threshold by Noel Ginn. Wellington: Steele Roberts. 96pp. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Ginn, Noel. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 204. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Greig, Rhondda. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 219. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Hapipi, Rori. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 227. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Hazard Press. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 233. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Herkt, David. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 235. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Howrah Bridge and Other Poems (1961). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 246. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) In Fires of No Return (1958). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 256. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing (1982). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 258. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Ireland, Kevin. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 259-60. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Jackaman, Rob. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 264. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Jacobs, Helen. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 265. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Jerusalem Daybook (1971). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 268. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Jerusalem Sonnets: Poems for Colin Durning (1970). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 268. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Kowhai Gold: An Anthology of Contemporary New Zealand Verse (1930). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 290. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Lasenby, Jack. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 300. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Lawson, Henry. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 302. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Marris, Charles A. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 357. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) McAlpine, Rachel. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 316. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) McQueen, Cilla. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 325. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Milner, Ian. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 375. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Minehan, Mike. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 376. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Norcliffe, James. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 409-410. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Oliver, Stephen. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 414. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Pig Island Letters (1966). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 441. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Pounamu, Pounamu (1972). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 449. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Randell, Beverley. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 459. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Stanley, Mary. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 510-511. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. and McLeod, A. (1998) Sturm, J. C.. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 517-518. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Tangi (1973). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 525. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Taylor, Apirana. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 527. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) The Fallen House (1953). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 175. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) The Matriarch (1986). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 369. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. and Morrison, B. [script]. (1998) The Road to Jerusalem. Morrison Grieve. [Cinema Release, DVD]. 90 mins. (Film/Video)
  • Millar, P. (1998) The Rock Woman (1969). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 468. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Wakefield, E. G.. In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 564. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Waltzing My Culture: The Sense of a Transportable Cultural Identity in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield and Henry Handel Richardson. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 14: 'Literature and the Nation'(Fall, 1998): 145-160. http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=_aJlRjkYOGoC&printsec=frontcover. (Journal Article)
  • Millar, P. (1998) Whanau (1974). In R. Robinson and N. Wattie (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature: 584-585. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Millar, P. (Ed.) (1997) Autumn Testament: James K. Baxter. Auckland: Oxford University Press. 70pp. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P. (1997) The Tension of Belief: Some Remarks on the Criticism of James K. Baxter’s Poetry. Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 45(Oct. 1997): 103-108. (Journal Article)
  • Millar, P. (Ed.) (1996) Cold Spring by James K. Baxter. Auckland: Oxford University Press. i-xxii, 1-74. (Edited Book)
  • Millar, P. (1996) Spark to a Waiting Fuse: James K. Baxter’s Correspondence with Noel Ginn, 1942-46. PhD, Victoria University of wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. (Thesis - Doctor of Philosophy)
  • Millar, P. (1995) An Australasian Forum?: The Hazard Poets Series. Landfall: A New Zealand Quarterly 3.2(190, Winter 1995) (Journal Article)
  • Millar, P. (1994) My Poems Will Speak to You Better Than I Do: James K. Baxter’s Letters on Poetry to Noel Ginn. Stout Centre Review 4.2(June 1994): 10-17. (Journal Article)