Associate Professor Selina Tusitala Marsh

Biography

NZ Society of Authors Waitangi Honorary Literary Fellow 2017

Commonwealth Poet 2016

London Literary Death Match Winner 2015

Research | Current

• Pasifika literature, particularly Pasifika women writers
• Global indigenous literatures
• Performance

Teaching | Current

ENGLISH 204 Pacific Literature in English

ENGLISH 252 Introduction to Creative Writing

Postgraduate supervision

PhD

Current

Robin Peters, PhD (Main), 'Papatuanuku's Progeny: First Wave Maori Women Poets' (current)

Michele Johannsson, PhD (Co-), 'Mele Kanikau: The Plays of John Kneubuhl' (current)

2015

Robert Sullivan, PhD (Main), 'Mana Moana: Five Pacific Poets'

2010

Theresa Koroivulaona, PhD (Main), 'The Long Way Home: Oral Narratives in Fiji'

Masters of Creative Writing

Gina Cole, 'Black Ice', Short Story Collection (2013), now contracted to Huia Publishers

Samantha , 'Maiden Fiji', Historical Novel, now contracted to the University of the South Pacific Press, Fiji

Ila Selwyn, ‘Frames’ (Play and Integrated Poetry Collection), 2014, staged in 2016

Jinyu Han, ‘Wild Orchid’ (Novel), 2014

Fiona Melrose, ‘White Noise’ (Short Stories), 2014

Jon Little,

Melanie O'Laughlin, 'And their Wives”, Historical Novel, (2013)

Madeleine Rout, 'Waiheke', Short Story Collection (2013)

MA Thesis

Jo Commins, 'The Re-Mythology of Nafanua in Contemporary Diasporic Samoan Literature’ (2016)

Emma Ngakuravaru Powell, 'Stitching to the back-bone: A Cook Islands Literary Tivaivai' (2013)

Chant West, 'Spoken Word Politics in Aotearoa' (2012)

MA and BA(Hons) Research Projects

2015

Makyla Curtis, ‘The Poetics of Bilanguaging: An Unfurling Literacy’

Fiona Stevens, ‘Myth, Transition, and Textuality in Rowen Metcalfe’s Transit of Venus’

Georgia Quirke-Luping: ‘Creating a ‘Kadazancentricity’

Anthony Lai, ‘Maui in Transition: Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives’

2014

Natasha Maharaj, ‘Indo-Fijian Literature, Diaspora in the plays of Sudesh Mishra’

2013

Jo Commins, 'Remythology and the Goddess'

Marlowe Wynne-Woodley, 'Adorno’s Reification, Campbell’s universalism and Sia Figiel'

Stella Seo, 'Identity Politics and Mudrooroo'

Shivanjali Nandani, 'Indo-Fijian Identities and Sudesh Mishra’s ‘Feejee’'

2012

Manisha Kumar, Imperial Narratives, Re-Mythology, in Ali Cobby Eckerman and John Pule’ 

Kieran van den Hurk,‘Transcultural Identities in Lani Wendt Young’s Telesa Trilogy’

Mymoena Abrams, Adolescence in Figiel and Wendt Young’s Y/A Fiction’

Responsibilities

PhD Pastoral Adviser