Updated on 27 July 2018. 2:07pm.
I see myself as a writer scholar—a unique position that defines
the various engagements within and outside of academia, more particularly as a
writer and scholar living and working in Oceania.
'I
think of myself as a rower of the ocean, taking the winds and currents of
Oceania, traveling in and out of islands, around islands, carrying with me the
burden of our collective experiences, always rowing to get somewhere to link up
all our peoples, and teaching our people and others to appreciate our cultures,
arts, way of life and knowledge systems.'
I participated in many activities in the Asia Pacific Region
primarily as a writer and scholar of Pacific literature.
Last year
(2017) I participated as an Asia Pacific writer in the Writers Immersion and
Cultural Exchange (WrICE), run out of the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne. The program involves a writer’s
residency in Philippines, in Geelong (Victoria), and participation in the
Melbourne Writers Festival.
I had
participated as a Guest Speaker in the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature, New
Zealand (November 28, 2017).
In 2016 I
participated in the Beijing International Book Fair as a writer and publisher.
I am preparing a book: Unwriting
Oceania: Studies
in Pacific Literature and Indigenous Knowledge, for the publication with
University of Hawaii.
In May 2017 the Oxford University Press
published my contribution to history of the novel in English since 1950s:
“Indigenous Pacific Fiction in English: The First Wave.” Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Australia, Canada,
New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950. Vol. 12. Edited by Coral Ann
Howells, Paul Sharrad, Gerry Turcotte. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
pp.499-510.
I have written or edited/co-edited the
following books:
2016 Muruk na Pato. Port
Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers
2016 Jupi and the Magic
Feather. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers
2015 A Turning Point: Buimo
Prison Writers. Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers in
Association with Bible Society of PNG.
2014 Land Echoes. Port
Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2013 Transitions and
Transformation: Literature, Politics, and Culture in Papua New Guinea. Port
Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2012 Detwan How? Port
Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2010 The Unpainted Mask.
Port Moresby: UPNG Press and Manui Publishers.
2009 A Rower’s Song. Port
Moresby: Manui Publishers.
2000 Hembemba: Rivers of the
Forest. Suva & Port Moresby: Institute of Pacific Studies, USP &
Language and Literature Department, UPNG.
2009 Reframing Knowledge: Cultural Knowledge and
Practices in Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby: Melanesian and Pacific
Studies, UPNG.
2005 Zia Writers of Waria:
Raitim Laip Stori (with Sakarepe Kamene), Port Moresby: Melanesian and
Pacific Studies.
1997 The Contemporary Pacific (Special Issue). Logging the Southwestern Pacific: Perspectives from Papua New Guinea,
Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (with
Kathleen Barlow). Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of
Hawaii Press.
1992-2004 Savannah
Flames: Journal of Papua New Guinean Literature, Language and Culture. Port
Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea.
Other well-known essays are listed
below:
2016 Trobriand Tower of Babel. Radical
Flame magazine. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
2015. Blogging in PNG. Tweets from the Field: Ethnographic Update. . Ed. Forest Young et
al. University of Hawaii, 2015.
2015 Customary Law is a Living Law, Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom: Themes from the Pacific Islands.
ICHCAP-UNESCO, South Korea.
2010 Reconstituting Indigenous Oceanic Folktales. Scholars Space—University of Hawaii.
2010 Chief of Oceania (Epeli’s Quest: Essays in
Honor of Epeli Hau’ofa). The Contemporary
Pacific. 22:1, 114- 116 (101-123).
2009 Bridging
Science and Indigenous Knowledge. Addressing
National and Global Issues Through Scientific Research and Development.
Edited by Prem P. Rai (Port Moresby:
UPNG School of Natural and Physical Sciences and School of Medicine and
Health Sciences, 14-30.
2009
Unmasking History and Memory in Pacific Fiction. Papua New Guinea Journal of English Studies. 1: 1, 1-14.
2005 PNG
Women Writers Finding the Paths Through Limitation. Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. XXVII: 2, 131-134.
2005 Dialogics of Literacy Education in Papua New
Guinea. Sustainable Curriculum Development: the PNG Curriculum Reform
Experience. Edited by Paraka M.
Pena. (Port Moresby: Papua New Guinea Department of Education), 86-96.
2003
Preface. Building a Nation: Views
of the Post-Independence Generation. Edited by David Kavanamur, Charles
Yala and Quinton Clements. (Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University), xi-xv.
2003.
Transition and Transformation. Meanjin on PNG. 62: 3, 169-177.
1999
Unwriting
Oceania: The Repositioning of the Pacific Writer Scholar Within a Folk
Narrative Space. New Literary History
31: 3 (Summer 2000), 599-615
I write about literature, language,
literacy, cultures, indigenous knowledge systems, books, libraries, media
technologies, education, writing, tourism, museums, art, PNG politics and
social change. These are archived in my blog: www.stevenewinduo.blogspot.com
I currently serve as Director of
Academic Audit Unit of the University of PNG.
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