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