NZSA Committee
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Dominic Alessio Associate Professor and Programme Leader for the History Department at Richmond The American International University in London. A former Canadian Commonwealth Scholar to New Zealand, his research within New Zealand Studies focuses on late nineteenth/early twentieth century science fiction and utopian literature, gender, visual culture and tourism. His publications on these topics have appeared in Women's History Review, Foundation, The Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies, ARIEL, and the Journal of New Zealand Literature. He is Vice-Chair of the New Zealand Studies Association, a member of the Advisory Board for the CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies, and was recently appointed Visiting Research Fellow in the Division of Media, English and Culture, School of the Arts, at the University of Northampton (2006-2009). His book on early New Zealand science fiction was published with the University of Nebraska Press in 2008, and he is currently working on another book looking at utopianism and national identity in New Zealand. alessid@richmond.ac.uk |
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Ian Conrich Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for New Zealand Studies, at Birkbeck, University of London. His research within New Zealand Studies includes a particular focus on film, magic lantern slides and stereoviews, cultural studies, visual culture and material culture, and early forms of tourism. He was recently the 2005 MacGeorge Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne, and 2005-6 was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, where he researched Victorian and Edwardian images of the Maori. He is an Editor of the CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies, and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, Associate Editor of Film and Philosophy, an advisory board member of Studies in Australasian Cinema, the Journal of Horror Studies, and Interactive Media, Regional Coordinator for England for the Asian Cinema Studies Society, Series Editor of 'Studies in New Zealand Culture', and Chair of the New Zealand Studies Association. For 2008, Ian is the Air New Zealand New Zealander of the Year. He has written for Sight and Sound, and the BBC and is Guest Editor of a special issue of Post Script on Australian and New Zealand cinema, and a consultant for the Harvard Review, for a special issue on New Zealand literature. The author of the forthcoming book New Zealand Cinema, he is an editor or co-editor of a further eleven books, including New Zealand - A Pastoral Paradise? (2000), The Technique of Terror: The Cinema of John Carpenter (2004), Film's Musical Moments (2006), New Zealand Filmmakers (2007), and the forthcoming Contemporary New Zealand Cinema. He has also contributed to more than 45 books and journals and spoken on New Zealand film and culture at universities in Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, South Africa, China, Singapore, Samoa, Australia, and the USA. ian@ianconrich.co.uk |
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Alan Gamlen Alan Gamlen is a doctoral student in Geography at the University of Oxford, working out of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). He is interested in relations between states and emigrants, and is focusing on New Zealand's engagement with 'its' diaspora. Alan's writing includes two COMPAS working papers, "Diaspora Engagement Policies" (2006), and "Brain Drain is Dead" (2005). He contributed to Kea New Zealand's 'global census', the largest survey of overseas-based New Zealanders to date. He has recently presented work at the UNESCO Conference on Diaspora Knowledge Networks in Paris. alan.gamlen@gmail.com |
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Gerri Kimber Gerri Kimber, FRSA, has a PhD from the University of Exeter where her thesis explored all aspects of Katherine Mansfield¹s reputation and reception in France. In addition to Mansfield, she has undertaken research on the short stories of the 19th century French writer Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, as well as the short stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Gerri is particularly interested in the work of C. K. Stead, which will be the focus of her next main research project. Gerri is an Editor of the CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies. She is the co-editor of Framed! Essays in French Studies (2007), a contributor to Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction (2007), and an on-going contributor for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), specialising in post-colonial literature from 1900. She has had articles published in Les Cahiers du CICLaS, British Review of New Zealand Studies, and 2001 Group: Essays in French Studies. She is the Membership Secretary for the New Zealand Studies Association. gerri@thekimbers.co.uk |
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Jessica is a Lecturer in New Zealand Studies at the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London. Her primary field is postcolonial literature and theory, and her research interests are wide-ranging. Her current project is a work-in-progress on New Zealand science fiction. Her interests also include studies in postcolonial and science fiction film and cultural implications/applications of video games and game culture as well as other new media. Her research has appeared in AngloFiles,
Asian Cinema, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, and in the
forthcoming books Narratives in English by Women Explorers and
Digital Culture, Play and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader. She is a
contributor to the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies
(ABES) and was a Research Fellow in the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (JSPS) Summer Program from June-September 2007. |
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Janet Wilson Professor in English at the University of Northampton, Janet has published widely on New Zealand writing including postcolonial and diasporic literature. She is editor of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (formerly World Literature Written in English), and on the advisory boards of the Journal of New Zealand Literature, Studies in Australasian Cinema and the CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies. Current positions are Director of the Centre for Contemporary Fiction and Narrative at the University of Northampton, Secretary of the New Zealand Studies Association. For 2007-2008 she is a Senior Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute in Oxford. In press is a monograph on the work of Fleur Adcock. She is the editor of The Gorse Blooms Pale: The Southland Stories of Dan Davin (2007), co-editor (with Clara A.B. Joseph) of the collection: Global Fissures: Postcolonial Fusions (2006), and editor of Intimate Stranger (1998), reminiscences of Dan Davin. Current research includes a book on adaptation in New Zealand and Australian feature films. janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk |