MA candidates
Jacob Cone
BASc English and Computer Science with Classics Minor, BA(Hons) English First Class
Topic: Ruins in Play and Across Time: Internalizing and Externalizing Disaster in Video Games
Email conja458@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisor: Dave Ciccoricco
Caitlin Duff
BAHons (Otago)
Proposed topic: Masculinity in New Woman fiction
Email caitlin.duff@otago.ac.nz
Supervisor: Grace More
Ursula Standring Bellugue
BAHons in English, minor in Religious Studies (Otago)
Topic: Indigeneity, Culture, and Simulation in Video Games
Email staur372@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisor: David Ciccoricco
PhD candidates
Liz Breslin
Proposed topic: Straining the fence lines: unsettling settler coloniser writing in the rural south of Te Waipounamu the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand (creative critical)
Email breli612@student.otago.ac.nz
Primary supervisor: Jacob Edmond
Rachel Connor
Topic: Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat
Email conra395@student.otago.ac.nz
Kim Cope Tait
Qualifications: MFA in Poetry, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2000
Proposed topic: Beyond the Veil of Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Personal Ambivalence in the Poetry of Indigenous Women Poets
Email kim.copetait@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Primary supervisor: Lynley Edmeades
Jasmine Gallagher
Topic: The New Sincerity in Contemporary New Zealand Poetry and Art
Email galja734@student.otago.ac.nz
Sandra Anne Jones
BAHons (Cardiff), MA with Distinction (Otago)
Topic: The charters witness by Archbishop of Canterbury Sigeric (990-994 AD) as literary and legal documents and as indicators of monastic development in late tenth century England
Research interests: Early medieval literature, tenth century law codes, church/state relationships in early medieval England and western Europe
Primary Supervisor: Simone Celine Marshall
Stacey Kokaua-Balfour
Qualifications: BAHons (Otago), GradDip Teaching (Victoria), Master of Creative Writing (Massey)
Topic: Akapapa’anga as ‘subjective world building’: A practice in Indigenous ecocriticism
Email kokst848@student.otago.ac.nz
Primary Supervisor: Jacob Edmond
Essa May Ranapiri
Qualifications: MA in Creative Writing (Victoria University of Wellington), and BA (Honours) in English (University of Waikato) BA in History (University of Waikato) Undergraduate Diploma in Māori and Indigenous Studies (University of Waikato)
Topic: Takatāpui Toikupu and the Cyborg, an investigation into poetry by contemporary takatāpui writers and how they utilise the cyborg in content and form to realise Mana Takatāpui
Primary Supervisor: Jacob Edmond
Research Interests: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies, Philosophy of Technology.
Email essawrites@outlook.co.nz
Arundhati Sethi
Qualifications: MA (Honors with Research) in English (University of Mumbai), BA in English (St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai)
Proposed topic: Affective Mobilities: Exploring Spatio-Corporeal Configurations and Liminal Aesthetics in Contemporary Refugee Comics
Primary Supervisors: Professor Catherine Fowler (Media, Film and Communication), Dr Rochelle Simmons (English)
Email arundhati.sethi@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Mere Taito
Qualifications: BA in Lit/Lang and Hist/Pol (University of the South Pacific), M. App Ling (University of Southern Queensland)
Proposed topic: Waywriting a collection of multilingual Fäeag Rotuạm ta-English poetry from reading creative Fäeag Rotuạm ta archival and contemporary texts: a creative option for Rotuman language regeneration in Aotearoa, NZ
Research Interests: Creative Practice, Creative Writing, Language Regeneration, Rotuman Language, Rotuman Creative Literature
Email meremarinataito@gmail.com
Michael Thames
Proposed topic: Hope within Tolkien's Literary Corpus and its Northern Sources: The Kalevala, Norse Edda, and Beowulf
Primary supervisor: Paul Tankard
Email thami739@student.otago.ac.nz
Lesley den Toon
BAHons Combined Classics and English; MA in English (Otago)
Topic: Slow Classics: Passive Graeco-Romans in the Nineteenth Century
Email denle934@student.otago.ac.nz
Primary supervisor: Thomas McLean
Adam Stewart
Qualifications: BA Hons. English Literature/Music Studies (Victoria University, Wellington), MA Creative Writing (IIML)
Topic: "Toitū: the story of a stream" - Deconstruction, the New Historicism and Digital Historical Fiction
Research Interests: deconstruction, narratology, gaming and the digital humanities
Email stead429@student.otago.ac.nz
Pamela Treanor
Qualifications: BA in History, Massey University; PGDip Librarianship, Victoria University of Wellington; GradDip Russian, University of Otago, MA English, University of Otago.
Topic: “Layers of Intent and Meaning in Medieval European Lettered Textiles, and Their Portrayal in Literature”
Research Interests: Medieval literature, textile history, bibliography, NZ theatre history
Rushi Vyas
Education: BS (University of Michigan), MFA (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Topic: Creative/Critical: Rituals of Relinquishment and Poetry of the Extreme Present
Research Interests: Creative Practice, Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Decolonial Theory, Race and Poetry, Performance Studies
Web rushivyas.org
Email vyaru178@student.otago.ac.nz
Louise Wallace
Topic: Womanhood in Contemporary Long-Form Narrative Poetry
Email mealo128@student.otago.ac.nz
Eileen Yu
Topic: Virginia Woolf and the cinema
Primary Supervisor: Rochelle Simmons
Research Interests: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, cinema studies, visual cultures, feminism.