Melissa Kennedy, Privatdoz. BA MA PhD
Melissa Kennedy
Summer term 2024
124080 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature and Language Education - Creating Avid Readers: Comics, Genre Fiction, Fan Worlds in EFL
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Melissa Kennedy

External lecturer

  • Department of English and American Studies
Postal address:
Austria

Publications

Single-Authored Monograph
Striding Both Worlds: Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand Literary Tradition.
(Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2011)

Editor
IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship. International Academic Forum (IAFOR) open-access e-publications
http://iafor.org/literaturejournal.html
Interpretative Encounters Vol. 2.1 (Spring 2013)
Journeys of Discovery Vol. 1.1 (Spring 2012)
co-editor with J. George Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Journal of Language, Culture and Communication Vol. 12.1 (Fall 2010) – Vol. 14.2 (Spring 2013)


Book Chapters
Currently in publication process (01/11/2013)
“Economic Inequality in Postcolonial Fiction” in The Postcolonial Literary Studies Handbook, ed., Jenni Ramone. (London: Bloomsbury, expected publication 2015).
“Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the international Postcolonial World”, in Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour, and Rights, ed., Janet Wilson, Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, and Ole Birk Laursen. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, expected publication Autumn 2014).
“Homelessness and the True Liminal Subject” in Interventions special issue “Economics, Literary Form and the Postcolonial Novel”, ed., Claire Barker and Dave Gunning. Expected publication, Spring 2015.
“Ökonomische Ungleichheiten im postkolonialen Slum” in Just Politics? - Ökokritische Perspektiven im postkolonialen Raum. (Münster: Unrast Verlag, expected publication, Spring 2014).
“The Postcolonial Slum” in Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis
Article under review for the Cross/Cultures Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, ASNEL papers (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi).
“Approaches to Teaching Witi Ihimaera” in MLA Options for Teaching on Australian/New Zealand Literature. (New York: MLA) expected publication SPring 2015.
“The Māori Renaissance” in A Cambridge History of New Zealand Literature, ed., Mark Williams. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) expected publication 2015.

Book Chapter
“The Englishness of Maori Writing.” Igor Maver, ed., Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures. Rowman and Littlefield: Maryland, 2009.

Journal Articles
“The Call of the West Coast and the Reality of Rain”, in Journal of New Zealand Literature No. 32 (Nov. 2013).
“All Our Pasts before Us: Hamish Clayton’s Wulf”, in Journal of New Zealand Literature No. 31 (March 2013).
“Theoretical Encounters: Postcolonial Studies in East Asia”, in IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship Vol. 2.1 (Spring 2013).
“Early Ainu and Maori postcolonial theatre: Postman Heijiro and Te Raukura”, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (online Sept. 2012).
“Literary Journeys and Journeys in Literature”, Introduction in IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship Vol. 1.1 (Spring 2012)
“New Directions in Postcolonial Studies” in NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication Vol. 13.2 (Spring 2012)
“Contemporary Tradition: Reconfiguring Ainu Identity in Modern Japan.” NUCB Journal of Language, Culture and Communication. Vol. 10(2), Spring 2009.
“Inside the text: The private side of Maori writing” in Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Vol. 45(1), 2009.
“Are you for Real? Witi Ihimaera’s Eidolon Camouflage” in Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings Vol. 8(2), 2008.

Department of English and American Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien

melissa.kennedy@univie.ac.at