Teaching Areas:

• English Literature and Creative Writing

Units Teaching:

• LL102, LL204, LL231 and LL331

Areas of research/interest:

There are two main areas of research/interest. The first is film theory/history. This interest has led to the involvement in script writing and film production. The second area and for which much research was undertaken during the writing of my MA thesis is historiography. The focus is on how history writing can be re-imagined and re-conceptualised using the idea professed by the literary and historical theorist Hayden White that the “historical text is a literary artifact.”

Publications:

• Towards a New Pacific Historiography: Re-imagining ‘History’ as a Literary Artefact. Germany: VDM Publishing, 2010.
• Book review with Robert Nicole and Gina Balawanilotu of Robert Borofsky’s (Ed.) Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History. In The Contemporary Pacific, Volume 15, Number 1 (Spring 2003), p 198.
• “Mr. Jones”. David Whish-Wilson (Ed.). In Dreadlocks, Volume 4 (2007), p 218-222.