Dr Judith Dell Panny MA (First Class Hons) and PhD Massey University

New Zealand Literature has been at the centre of Dell’s research interests. She was a Guest Professor at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, where papers she taught included ‘The Development of the New Zealand Short Story’ and ‘Maori Culture and Literature’.

Dell has recently completed a literary biography of author C. K. Stead, for which project she gained a CLL Award (Copyright Licensing Ltd) in October 2006. Her next endeavour, entitled Let the Writer Stand: Vincent O’Sullivan, considers the contribution of this distinguished writer and academic to New Zealand Literature.

President of the Manawatu Branch of the Federation of Graduate Women, Dell is also an executive committee member for the local branch of National Council of Women. As a member of Te Manawa Art Society committee, she is an editor for Collectively Speaking, to be published in 2009 by Dunmore Press, celebrating fifty years of the Society’s acquisitions for the Art Gallery in Palmerston North.

Author of one volume of poetry, Dell continues to write whenever possible. Tai chi and walking keep her fit.

Judith Dell Panny, Plume of Bees: A Literary Biography of C. K. Stead, Auckland, Cape Catley, 2009.

Judith Dell Panny (editor), Collectively Speaking: Te Manawa Art Society — the first 50 years, Wellington, Dunmore Press, 2009.

John Bevan Ford: Paintings, Auckland, David Bateman Ltd, 2004.

Unfurling: Poems by Judith Dell Panny, Palmerston North, Dunmore Press, 2003.

I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame, revised edition, Palmerston North, Dunmore Press, 2002. (Wellington, Daphne Brasell Associates, 1992; New York, George Braziller, 1993.)

Turning the Eye: Patricia Grace and the Short Story,Christchurch,Lincoln University Press and Daphne Brasell Associates, 1997.

"Benign Xenophobia? The Testimony of Maori Literature", Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English (Cross/Cultures 95), ed. Dunja M. Mohr, Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2008.

"A Cultural-Historical Reading of Cousins by Patricia Grace", Kōtare, Volume Six, ed. Peter Whiteford,Victoria University of Wellington, 2006.

"Inside the Spiral: Maori Literature in English", Towards a Transcultural Future (Cross/Cultures 79), eds. Davis, Marsden, Ledent and Delrez,Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi, 2005.

"Tuwhare's Deep Talk", Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, XXXVI. 4, Wuerzburg, Verlag Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2004.

"Man’s Ignorance of the Human Compass: Janet Frame and the Wise Men", Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, XXXII 1, Wuerzburg, Verlag Koenigshausen & Neumann, 1999.

Critical appraisal of "Snowman, Snowman" by Janet Frame, in Short Story Criticism, Vol 29 (hard-covered volume and CD-Rom/Galenet), Detroit, Gale Research Inc, 1998.

"Potiki by Patricia Grace"; "The Matriarch by Witi Ihimaera"; "Mihi: Collected Poems by Hone Tuwhare", in Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon, Bd. 21 & 22, München, Kindler Verlag, 1998.

"A Hidden Dimension in the Fiction of Janet Frame", The Journal of New Zealand Literature, Volume 11, Dunedin, The Department of English, University of Otago, 1993 .

"Opposite and Adjacent to the Postmodern", The Ring of Fire, ed. Professor Jeanne Delbaere, Aarhus, Dangaroo Press, 1992.