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| Mere Marina Taito
PhD Student
English and Linguistics
University of Otago (New Zealand)
I speak in the following language(s): Rotuman
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About |
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Otago.
My creative practice research is based on the genealogy of Rotuman texts. I read early 20th century Rotuman publications and developed a collection of multilingual archival digital visual poetry (Archi digi vispo). I currently live in Hamilton, New Zealand.
My research interests are:
Poetry, Biographical texts, Mythological texts, Periodical and serial texts; Digital humanities - digital poetry, digital storytelling, transmedial texts; Multidisciplinary approaches to literature, medical humanities, archival and historical poetics, visual poetics, poetic inquiry, multilingual texts, Pacific and Indigenous literature; Pacific history; Literary creative practice research |
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Discipline(s) |
Documentation and Archives
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Member of |
Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS)  |
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Geographic places |
Miingimbi, Galuwin'ku, Ramininging, Gapuwiyak
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Historical periods |
20th century
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Indigenous languages |
Rotuman |
Experiences |
PhD Research (2022 to 2024)
— University of Otago
To engage with the intellectual genealogy of a people through community and institutional archives is to remember, connect, acknowledge, listen to, and lean into the work of ancestors. In this creative PhD thesis, I engage four Rotuman multilingual archival texts and their contexts through a series of innovative reading approaches: un-trapment, panoramic-surface, and ruined story. These texts are the multi-authored newsletter Rogorogo (1913, 1914); Titifanua’s collection of Rotuman folklore Tales of a Lonely Island (Churchward, 1937; 1938a; n.d, 1939; Titifanua |
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