Arini Loader is a Lecturer in History at Victoria University of Wellington. Here’s Arini talking about her research: “My disciplinary background in Māori Studies enables me to dip my toes in a range of interconnected and overlapping scholarly fields. I am interested in narrative, prose & poetics, kōrero tuku iho, whakapapa, mōteatea, in the telling of stories on paper, marae & film, in archives, kitchens and at current events. My research is centered on te reo Māori texts written in the 19th century particularly but not limited to those of my own Ngāti Raukawa-Ngāti Toa Rangatira tūpuna. History, literature, and language are key threads in my kete mātauranga.”
Literature, Diplomacy, and Indigenous Peoples in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Romanticism and Beyond 