ACADEMIA

DEGREES

2000 PhD in English: “My Two Countries Firmly Under My Feet: Explorations of Multicultural Identity in the Fiction of Amelia Batistich and Yvonne du Fresne”

1994 MA in English: “Milking the Olive Tree: the Migrant Writing of Amelia Batistich”

1989 BA in English and Italian

DISTINCTIONS

2004      NZ Federation of Graduate Women Post-Doctoral Fellowship

2000      Royal Society of New Zealand Travel Award to Denmark

1998      NZ Federation of University Women Post-Graduate Fellowship

1994-96 University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship

1993       Elizabeth Mary Phillips Scholarship

1989       Italian Government Scholarship – Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy

1988       Elizabeth Mary Phillips Scholarship

CAREER (All University of Auckland unless stated otherwise):

2003-2021 Co-ordinator of English, Tertiary Foundation Certificate

2008, Co-convenor/Lecturer Comparative literature

2002-2008  Auckland: An Interdisciplinary Study, Massey University. Auckland Migrant Literature annual lectures

2003-2004, Convenor/Lecturer, Summer School English

2003 Medical Humanities Elective Convenor and tutor, School of Medicine

1994-1997 Tutor English