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Dr Mary PaulPosition: Senior Lecturer |
Contact Details
Room: AT2.35, Atrium Building, Albany Campus, Auckland
Telephone Extension: 9064
Email: M.Paul@massey.ac.nz
Expertise
Mary's research interests are: settler culture in New Zealand and Australia. Her current research project is on the writings of New Zealand novelist, poet and journalist Robin Hyde. Mary has co-edited two anthologies: The New Poets: Initiatives in New Zealand Poetry, New Women's Fiction, and authored a critical work Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield & Hyde, Otago University Press, 1999.
Teaching
139.171 Introduction to Cultural and Literary Studies
139.209 Speaking: Theory and Practice
139.226 Life Writing
139.272 Auckland Writers and Their Region
139.750 Contemporary New Zealand Writers in an International Context
Possible Supervision
Robin Hyde - autobiographical writings and critical studies, NZ literature and cultural studies, Women's writing, Trauma and Creativity, Eco-criticism, NZ theatre.
Publications
Books
Gothic NZ. Ed. Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn and Mary Paul. Dunedin: University of Otago Press. (in press) ISBN 10: 1 877372 23 4 SBN 13: 978 1 877372 23 0
"Her Side of the Story, Readings of Mander, Mansfield & Hyde". Dunedin: Otago University Press, 1999.
"New Women’s Fiction 3, edited with Marion Rae". Auckland: New Women’s Press, 1989.
"The New Poets: Initiatives in New Zealand Poetry, edited with Murray Edmond". Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
Articles/Chapters in Books
[In press] ‘Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson)’ in the Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography, Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman. (NZ contributions edited by Paul Millar (VUW)).
‘Women’s Theatre in New Zealand’. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English.Vol I. London: Routledge, revised edition, 2005. pp. 397-99.
Introduction to [Your Name Here] Life Writing, edited by Jack Ross. Albany: School of Social & Cultural Studies, Massey University, 2003.
‘Robin Hyde: A Political Reading’, HOW2 Vol.1, No. 6, Fall 2001 (e journal Rutgers).
‘Iris 2000: the Robin Hyde Project’, Conference Paper Proceedings, New Zealand Study Group, London.
18 author entries on New Zealand writers in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature, ed. Jenny Stringer, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.
'"Bliss" and Why Ignorance Won’t Do: The Use of Criticism and Theory in Current Reading Practices’, in Michele Leggott and Mark Williams, ed. Opening the Book: Contemporary Critical Essays on New Zealand Writers. Auckland: Auckland Univ. Press, 1995.
‘Women’s Theatre in New Zealand’ and author entries in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conelly ed. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London: Routledge, 1995.
‘Kunst in Neuseeeland: Literatur’, translated Joachim Fischer, in Neuseeland, by Andres Apse and Joachim Fischer with photographs by Ans Westra. New revised paperback edition, Koln: Du mont Buchverlag, 1994.
‘The We of Me’, autobiographical essay in Landfall 180, 1990: 412-7.
Recent Publications and Presentations
'His Unselfish Kindness: the Autobiographical wrings of Robin Hyde'. Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 20 May 2005.
‘Three Reasons for Leaving Wellington: Un-gratitude, Improvidence and Trouble’. [Katherine Mansfield, Jean Devanny and Robin Hyde] Invited speaker in Wild Wilful and Wanton: Women Writers in Wellington Series. Katherine Mansfield Birthplace, Tinakori Rd, Wellington. 6 Sepetember 2002.
‘Bohemia in Fifties Auckland’ Invited participant panel discussion. Auckland Writers Festival, 27 May 2001.
‘Robin Hyde’s Autobiography: which evils are accidental?’ Conference paper, for "Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth", The 12th Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Canberra 9-14 July 2001.
‘Iris Re-examined: the Challenge of the Biopic’. Film and History Conference 2000, 10th Biennial Conference of the History and Film Association of Australia and New Zealand. The NZFilm Archive, Wellington 1-3 December 2000.
‘Iris 2000: the Robin Hyde Project’. The Seventh Annual Day Conference of the New Zealand Study Group. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London 28 June 2000.
‘A Home in This World: gender and domesticity in the autobiographical writings of Robin Hyde’. Conference Paper, First Biennial Conference United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (USACLALS), Bryant and Rhode Island College, Providence, 6 May 2000.
‘The Robin Hyde Project’, English Department Seminar Series, Sydney University, 28 March 2000.
‘Writing/Living against Gender Expectations, North Shore 1930s’. Sargeson, Hyde and the Beginnings of New Zealand Fiction Conference. University of Otago, Dunedin 3-5 September 1999.
