New director for Miramar Creative Centre
Victoria University of Wellington’s newly launched Miramar Creative Centre recently welcomed its inaugural director, Dr Paul Wolffram.
2018 news
Read news items from our 2018 archives.
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New scholarships honour Te Papa founders Cheryll Sotheran and Cliff Whiting
Te Papa has honoured its founders Cheryll Sotheran and Cliff Whiting by creating two scholarships in partnership with the Museum and Heritage Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Oroya and Melvin Day Postgraduate Scholarship for Art History
In honour of the acclaimed New Zealand artist and Director of the National Art Gallery, Melvin Day, and his wife Oroya Day, a former lecturer in art history at Victoria University, a scholarship programme has been established by the Melvin and Oroya Day Trust (the Day Trust) to support MA or PhD students who have studied Art History at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Perseverance wins prize
Reader in Translation Studies Dr Marco Sonzogni is set to receive an award for his trilogy on Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)—a poet, translator, literary critic and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.
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Peterson Fellowship for Associate Professor Nikki Hessell
Associate Professor Nikki Hessell has been awarded a 2018-2019 Peterson Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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PhD candidate Jessica Marinaccio receives PGSA Research Excellence Award
Congratulations to Va‛aomanū Pasifika (Pacific Studies and Samoan Studies) PhD candidate Jessica Marinaccio who has received a Postgraduate Students Association (PGSA) Research Excellence Award, worth $3,000.
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Staff member and graduate win prestigious literary prize
Associate Professor Anna Jackson and International Institute of Modern Letters graduate Avi Duckor-Jones are the first New Zealanders to win Seizure’s Viva la Novella prize.
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Stephen Epstein awarded 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
Congratulations to Associate Professor Stephen Epstein from the School of Languages and Cultures, who has won a 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant worth US$3,500 for his translation of Intan Paramaditha's novel, Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu (The Wandering: Choose Your Own Red Shoes Adventure).
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Playwright named as inaugural Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence
Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the appointment of the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence for 2019.
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Prestigious prize for Master’s student
Master of English Literature student Emma Rayner has won the Lloyd Davis Prize for the Best Postgraduate Student Paper at the 2018 Australia New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference in Melbourne.