Prof. Howard McNaughton
Postgraduate Coordinator
Qualifications
- M.A., Litt.D. (Otago)
- M.A., Ph.D. (Canterbury)
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
DDI:+ 64 3 364 2224
Internal Phone: 6224
howard.mcnaughton@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
English Programme
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
Physical address:
Room 324, English/Education Building
Office Hours:
2-3 pm most days.
Research
Howard McNaughton has published widely in the field of modern and postcolonial drama. His New Zealand Drama was published by G.K. Hall in 1981, and his edition of the Collected Plays of James K. Baxter by Oxford in the following year. He has written the Drama section in both editions of The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature. He has become increasingly involved in the developing field of Cultural Studies, and has recently been published in Social Semiotics and Theatre Research International. Howard is New Zealand editor of the Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 2005). His latest books are Figuring the Pacific (2005) and The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the Twenty-first Century (2006), which will appear in a Chinese edition in 2009.
Publications
Memberships (not all current)
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association
Modern Languages Association of America
Cultural Studies Association of Australia (two terms on executive)
Australasian Drama Studies (editorial board)
Playmarket (foundation trustee)
University of Canterbury Drama Society Trust (foundation member)
Popular Culture Association of America
South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(one term on executive)
Recent International Conference Presentations
Bastard Tohungaism and Some of its Agents, Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA), Fremantle, 2004
Ngai Tahu and the Erasure of the Gothic Revival, Cultural Studies Association
of Australia (CSAA), Melbourne, 2002
Cultural Studies, Theory, and the Curriculum, CSAA, Hobart, 2001
Dialogic Ethnography as a Basis of Recent Canadian Drama. Australia
and New Zealand Canadian Studies conference, Canterbury, 2001
Fearful Symmetries [series of ten radio talks on the cultural history
of the Twentieth Century], Concert FM, 2000. Twice re-broadcast.
Things to Do with Jane Campion’s Beach. CSAA, Brisbane, 2000
Elegiac Performance. Australasian Drama Studies, Hamilton, 1998
Credibility and the Curriculum: Situating New Zealand Cultural Studies.
Pacific Spaces conference, Wellington, 1999
Mixing Metonymies: Staging Polynesia in the 1906 Christchurch International
Exhibition CSAA conference, Fremantle, 1998
Abject Performance and the Problem of Cultural Context. Australasian
Universities Language and Literature Association, Sydney, 1997
Curnow’s Pacific and Its Interlocutors. New Zealand Literature
Association conference, Dunedin, 1997
“Staged Ex-primitivism”: Cultural Studies within Biculturalism.
CSAA, Melbourne. 1997
Translation, Taonga, and Personhood. Gayatri Spivak Culture Sex and
Law conference, Melbourne, 1996
Hip Hop Haka and the Posse, Popular Culture Association of America,
Oahu, 1996
Theatre as Contact Zone, Postcolonial conference, Brisbane 1996
Identity Formation and the Anthology, Modern Languages Association of
America convention, Chicago, 1995