Research

I have a number of academic research interests which my employment enables me to pursue on an occasional, part-time basis.

In literary and cultural studies, I’m interested in New Zealand literary modernism, and in the impact on literary studies in New Zealand of other modes of reading, particularly historical and sociological approaches.  I’m also interested in comparative approaches to New Zealand literature that explore alternatives to postcolonial cultural geographies.

In teaching and learning I’m interested in the use of memoir and reflective writing in learning and assessment, and as tools for academic inquiry into teaching and learning.

My PhD, “Iris, Read and Written: A New Poetics of Robin Hyde” (2001), can be read or downloaded from these pages.  Please note that this copy is not for citation.

A bibliography of my publications, academic and non-academic, can be found below.

Peer- and Editorially-Reviewed Publications

“Thoroughly Modern Malory: Robin Hyde’s Poetic Ciphers and Camelot Codes”.  Lighted Windows: Critical Essays on Robin Hyde.  Ed. Mary Edmond-Paul.  Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2008.

“Borders and Boundaries and Becoming a Teacher: a Memoir from the Bridging Programmes Classroom”.  Crossing Borders and Boundaries.  Adult and Community Learning Monograph Series 2.  Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 2008.  1-12.

“Teaching Cultural Studies to International Students: A Narrative Account”.  Learning Transitions.  Adult and Community Learning Monograph Series 1.  Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 2006.  67-80.

“Accepting Summer: Robin Hyde in China”.  Journal of New Zealand Literature 16, 1998 [2000].  45-57.

Book Reviews

Review of The arts and social justice: Re-crafting adult education and community cultural leadership.  NZ Journal of Adult Learning.  Vol. 36, No. 2, December 2008.  128-32.

“Something to be Proud of: An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi”.  New Zealand Books.  Vol. 15 No. 2, June 2005.  19.

Other publications

“Art and Craft-the story so far“.  New Zealand Books.  Vol. 14 No. 5, December 2004.  22.

“Thoroughly Modern Malory: Robin Hyde and Malorian Desire“.  NZEPC, 6 November 2001.

“The Lens and the Archive: Reading Literary Culture, Reading Robin Hyde”.  Takahe 36, April 1999.  53-6.