I teach children’s and young adult literature, English, American, world and Indigenous literatures in English. My research interests include film, popular culture, transmedial and multimodal literature, dystopian fiction, posthumanism, transhumanism, and Oceanic literatures and cultural studies.
Originally from New Zealand, I have an academic background spanning New Zealand, Britain, and Sweden.
My research focuses on film and media, literary studies, transmediality, and emerging literary forms, Pacific cultures and literatures, postcolonialism and neocolonialism, and post- and transhumanism.
I hold a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, and master's degrees in English Literature, Indigenous Studies, History (Political Sociology), and Journalism.
I am also a journalist and European correspondent.
My research interests include film and media, literary studies, transmediality and emerging literary forms, Pacific cultures and literatures, postcolonialism and neocolonialism, and post- and transhumanism.
In my doctoral research, I adapted a discourse-analytic model to examine representations of cultural identity and power relations between dominant, minority, and Indigenous cultures in reality television and reality-ethnographic programming.