Academic Works

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Sorbonne Nouvelle conference

Over the last month or so, the lovely Katherine Mansfield expert Janet Wilson has been super busy organising a conference panel or two to speak at the ‘Exile’s Return: An EMiC Colloquium’ next summer. I am very ecstatic (and rather daunted, I might add) to say that my paper ‘Within the pages of Rhythm: Mansfield, … Continue reading »

Routledge Academic – Race and the Modernist Imagination

Recently, I had the good fortune to assess and discuss a new critical modernist text – Urmila Seshagiri’s Race and the Modernist Imagination, published by Cornell University Press. Seshagiri, who is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, is a well-published expert in the two fields that make up this critical text … Continue reading »

Routledge Academic – Pacific Islands Writing

In my capacity as Postcolonial literature adviser for Routledge Academic, I have recently been reading, reviewing and writing recommendations on the inclusion of a number of critical books to the ABES website. One of the gems that I have encountered recently is Michelle Keown’s Pacific Islands Writing — part of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial … Continue reading »

Routledge Academic – Mister Pip

One of the articles that I read, assessed and recommended for inclusion just before Christmas was a truly unique and pertinent academic article, ‘From Wellington to Bougainville: Migrating Meanings and the Joys of Approximation in Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip’. Continue reading »

Routledge Academic

As a Post-Colonial expert in the network of contributors for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (Routledge ABES), I have recently been fortunate to read some very thought-provoking journal articles and books relating to New Zealand and South Pacific literature. Continue reading »

Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies

A couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to be asked to sit on the editorial board of the research-rich Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. This interdisciplinary academic journal is affiliated with The University of Auckland and involves a sharp-minded group of individuals dedicated to encouraging and publishing original academic articles, reviews, commentary, and … Continue reading »

Katherine Mansfield symposium article

The article written concerning the Katherine Mansfield symposium has just been published in the sixth edition of the Katherine Mansfield Newsletter including a number of photographs of the two-day event. Continue reading »

Katherine Mansfield, the ‘Underworld’ and the ‘Blooms Berries’

Dispatch from the Katherine Mansfield Symposium held at RMIT University in Melbourne. Continue reading »

Katherine Mansfield Symposium

Paper presented at ‘Katherine Mansfield, the ‘Underworld’ and the ‘Blooms Berries’ symposium at the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne. Continue reading »

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