{"id":1560,"date":"2016-07-12T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T03:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:08:37","slug":"research-roundup-may-and-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2016\/07\/12\/research-roundup-may-and-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Roundup – May and June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another 2 books, a special issue of a journal, and a play<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Thom Conroy<\/strong> had his second novel published: The Salted Air <\/em>published by Random House Books New Zealand. The Salted Air<\/em> was ranked in the top ten (2nd<\/sup>, 6th<\/sup>, 9th<\/sup> then 8th<\/sup>) on the Nielsen Weekly Bestsellers List during the month of June peaking at number two for the week ending 4 June.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2016\/05\/04\/the-salted-air-a-new-novel-by-thom-conroy\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/standing-room-only\/audio\/201803396\/the-salted-air<\/a><\/p>\n

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Associate Professor Angie Farrow\u2019s <\/strong>full-length play The Politician\u2019s Wife<\/em> had its debut at Palmerston North\u2019s Centrepoint Theatre mid-June and at Wellington\u2019s BATS Theatre at the end of June. The play was shortlisted for the Adam Prize 2016, the country\u2019s top playwriting award.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/about-massey\/news\/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=59E135DD-FAA2-6B5E-57B9-CDB922AFE6E3<\/a><\/p>\n

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Associate Professor Lisa Emerson<\/strong> had a book published online: The forgotten tribe: Scientists as writers<\/em>, by the WAC clearinghouse and the University Press of Colorado.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/wac.colostate.edu\/books\/emerson\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr Kim Worthington, Dr Celina Bortolotto, Dr Allan Meek <\/strong>and Dr Jenny Lawn <\/strong>co\u2010edited an issue of the Australian e\u2010journal borderlands <\/em>on the theme, \u2018The Limits of Responsibility,\u2019 and co\u2010wrote the introduction.<\/p>\n

Three journal articles from English & Media Studies were included:<\/p>\n

Lawn, J., Bortolotto, C., Worthington, K., & Meek, A. (2015). \u2018The limits of responsibility\u2019;<\/p>\n

Meek, A. (2015). \u2018Cultural trauma, biopolitics and the limits of responsibility\u2019; and<\/p>\n

Tutor Mr Nick Allen\u2019s <\/strong>honours essay: \u2018Memory Shards: A Site of Hope in post\u2010Apartheid South Africa\u2019.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.borderlands.net.au\/issues\/vol14no2.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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A number of articles and book chapters appeared by English and Media Studies Staff<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr David Gruber <\/strong>had an article published: \u2018Reinventing the brain, revising neurorhetorics: Phenomenological networks contesting neurobiological interpretations\u2019, in Rhetoric Review<\/em> 35(3): 239-253.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/07350198.2016.1179004<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr Ingrid Horrocks and Dr Philip Steer <\/strong>had a book chapters published in A History of New Zealand Literature<\/em>, ed. Mark Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n

Horrocks, I. Chapter One: \u2018A World of Waters: Imagining, Voyaging, Embarkation.\u2019<\/p>\n

Steer, P. Chapter Six: \u2018Colonial ecologies: Guthrie-Smith’s Tutira and writing in the settled environment.\u2019<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/nz\/academic\/subjects\/literature\/english-literature-general-interest\/history-new-zealand-literature?format=HB<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr Ingrid Horrocks <\/strong>had an article and accompanying interview published: \u2018Something else is going on, an interaction, an exchange: Martin Edmond\u2019s Painted Lives,\u2019 in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly <\/em>38.3 (Summer 2015): 491\u2010511.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/uhpjournals.wordpress.com\/tag\/ingrid-horrocks\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Associate Professor Angie Farrow’s<\/strong> play: ‘The Real Thing’, was performed at the Inspirato International Theatre Festival in Toronto in early June.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Bryan Walpert: <\/strong>had three poems published in the literary journal Ika 4<\/em>, edited by Anne Kennedy; and gave an invited reading of his work at the Ika launch in Auckland on 14 May.<\/p>\n

Associate Professor Bryan Walpert, School of English and Media Studies<\/strong>, was invited to join the Academy of New Zealand Literature.<\/p>\n

A new short play addressing climate change by Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley<\/strong>, School of English and Media Studies<\/strong>, called \u2018Waiting for Go\u2019, was shortlisted at the Short and Sweet play festivals in both Brisbane and Canberra during June. Each festival receives several hundred entries, with only the top 10% shortlisted.<\/p>\n

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Staff gave presentations and talks both local and international<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Pansy Duncan<\/strong> presented: \u2018Exploding the Frame\u2019, at the \u2018Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand\u2019 conference, Sydney, Australia, 29 June \u2013 1 July.<\/p>\n

Dr David Gruber<\/strong> presented: \u2018Suasive Speech: A Stronger Defense of Rhetoric and Futures for Cognitive Poetics\u2019, at the ‘Cognitive Futures in the Humanities’ Conference\u2019, Helsinki, Finland, 13-15 June.<\/p>\n

Dr Rand Hazou<\/strong> presented: \u2018Presenting the Theatrical Past: Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices’, at the International Federation of Theatre conference in Stockholm, Sweden, 13-17 June.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Nick Holm <\/strong>presented: \u2018Against the Assault of Laughter: Differentiating Critical and Resistant Humour,\u2019 at the Comedy and Critical Thought Conference, 3 and 4 May, University of Kent, UK.<\/p>\n

Dr Mary Paul <\/strong>was a panel member on: \u2018The Great Kiwi Classic Face\u2010Off \u2010 speaking for New Zealand writer Robin Hyde as the Great Kiwi Classic Author,\u2019 at the Auckland Writers Festival, 14 May.<\/p>\n

Dr Erin Mercer<\/strong> presented: \u2018Haunting and Spectrality in the Work of Jack Kerouac\u2019, at the \u2018Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand\u2019 conference, Sydney, Australia, 29 June \u2013 1 July.<\/p>\n

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And we hosted a number of research events<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Philip Steer <\/strong>organised and hosted an exciting visit by Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University, to the Manawatu campuse. https:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/departments\/english\/faculty\/plotz.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Amongst other events, on Monday 30 May Professor Plotz ran a Masterclass on the topic, \u201cThe Anthropocene and Method in the Humanities\u201d.<\/p>\n

This was part of a cluster of events on The Anthropocene held in May and June, in collaboration with Massey\u2019s new Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC)<\/strong>. Dr Nick Holm <\/strong>and Dr Sy Taffel <\/strong>also gave talks on the topic of the Anthropocene as well as presenting at the College\u2019s \u2018Humanities Engagement Series\u2019 focussing on \u2018The Land: Resilience and Co-Existence\u2019. These events were run as part of the W. H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy<\/strong> series over the month of June.<\/p>\n

PERC: http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/about-massey\/news\/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=E8028EB9-DEFB-B0D4-EA0D-96D15684918D<\/a><\/p>\n

Humanities Research Academy: http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/learning\/departments\/centres-research\/oliver-academy\/oliver-academy_home.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n

Kia Mau Hui: <\/strong>on June 14, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/strong> facilitated and hosted an important international indigenous theatre hui at the Wellington campus, involved Associate Professor Elspeth Tilley<\/strong>. The hui aimed to enable local indigenous artists to connect with indigenous festival directors and staff from Australia and Canada and to develop future collaborations.\u00a0 There were 32 attendees including a number of international indigenous artists. The hui provided an important development opportunity for local theatre artists to pitch to international festival staff.<\/p>\n

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The School also hosted presentations on various campuses as part of the W.H. Oliver Research Academy Research Series:<\/p>\n

You can see the full programme and recordings of some of the seminars here.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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