Associate Professor Alice A Te Punga Somerville
Associate Professor / Manukura
Qualifications: PhD (Cornell), MA (Auck)
Personal Website: http://oncewerepacific.blogspot.co.nz/
Iwi: Te Ātiawa, Taranaki
About Alice
At its heart, Alice's research is about texts by Māori, Pacific and Indigenous people. Dr Te Punga Somerville's work is underpinned by her belief that we (Māori, Pacific and/ or Indigenous peoples) are constrained when the stories about us are limited. She therefore focus on texts as evidence, sites and foundations of stories that are far more complex than those that are told about us by other people or even those that are generally told by ourselves.
Dr Te Punga Somerville's MA and PhD focused on Māori written literatures, and as she deliberately sought broader contexts for exploring this writing she developed a twin interest and expertise in Indigenous studies and Pacific studies. She also writes the occasional poem.
Papers Taught
Research Interests
Māori, Pacific and Indigenous literary and cultural studies. Pacific studies. Indigenous studies.
Recent Publications
Te Punga Somerville, A. (2018). Searching for the Trans-Indigenous. [Review of Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen}. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4, 96-105.
Te Punga Somerville, A. (2017). Where oceans come from. Comparative Literature, 69(1), 25-31. doi:10.1215/00104124-3794579
Te Punga Somerville, A. (2017). The great pacific garbage patch as metaphor: The (American) pacific you can't see. In B. R. Roberts, & M. A. Stephens (Eds.), Archipelagic American Studies (pp. 320-340). Duke University Press.
Te Punga Somerville, A. A. (2017). I do still have a letter: Our sea of archives. In C. Anderson, & J. M. O'Brien (Eds.), Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies. Routledge.
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Keywords
English; Indigenous Rights; Maori; Maori History; Maori Identity; Maori Research; Pacific Issues
Indigenous studies, Pacific literary and cultural studies, Comparative Indigenous studies, Indigenous (esp Māori) diasporas
Contact Details
| Name | Extn. | Username | Room | Department | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Te Punga Somerville, AProf Alice | 9550 | alicet | ITS.G.15 | Te Pua Wananga ki te Ao |
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