Dr. Matthew Hayward

Position title:

Senior Lecturer in Literature

Literature Discipline Coordinator

Contact Info

Phone #: +679 323 2940
Email: matthew.hayward@usp.ac.fj

Qualifications: PhD (Durham University)

Expertise: Pacific Literature; Modernism; Consumerism; Globalistion

BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Hayward is Literature’s Discipline Coordinator. He specialises in Pacific literature, especially in relation to modernism.

He currently supervises postgraduate researchers working on such topics as the representation of women in Indo-Fijian and Samoan literature, Indigenous representations of sandalwood in colonial and postcolonial Fijian contexts, the forgotten women authors of early Pacific literature, and the literature of the nuclear Pacific.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long. The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Edited Collections

Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long, eds. New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Special Issues

Carlston, Erin M., Matthew Hayward, and Brian Reed, eds. ‘Modernism in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands’. Spec. issue of Modernist Cultures 15.3 (2020).

Refereed Journal Articles

Hayward, Matthew, and Maebh Long. ‘Towards an Oceanian Modernism’. Modernism/modernity 28.3 (2021)

Hayward, Matthew. ‘Concluding and Continuing Curriculum Development’. Directions: Journal of Educational Studies 35.1 (2021).

Carlston, Erin M., Matthew Hayward, and Brian Reed. ‘Introduction: Modernism in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands’. Modernist Cultures 15.3 (2020).

Long, Maebh, and Matthew Hayward. ‘Modernism and Colonial Education in the Pacific Islands’. Modernist Cultures 15.3 (2020).

Hayward, Matthew. ‘Movies and Pacific Modernities in Wendt and Subramani’. Symplokē 26:1–2 (2018).

Hayward, Matthew. ‘Indigenizing Intertextuality: Literacy and Orality in Albert Wendt’s Pouliuli’. Journal of Modern Literature 41:2 (2018).

Book Chapters

Hayward, Matthew. ‘Lestrygonians’. In The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes. Edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Hayward, Matthew. ‘Our Own Identity: Albert Wendt, James Joyce and the Indigenisation of Influence’. In New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific. Edited by Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Long, Maebh, and Matthew Hayward. ‘The Space Between: Oceanian Literature and Modernist Studies’. In New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific. Edited by Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Hayward, Matthew. ‘Supervising Postgraduate Theses in Literary Studies at the University of the South Pacific’. In Graduate Research Supervision in the Developing World: Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices. Edited by Erik Blair, Danielle Watson and Shikha Raturi. London: Routledge, 2020.

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