Professor Jane Stafford

Professor Jane Stafford teaches in the English programme at Victoria University of Wellington.

Jane Stafford teaches in the English programme of Victoria University of Wellington.

Her research is in the area of colonial and New Zealand literature. She has published on nineteenth-century Indian poetry in English, including the work of Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu, the Vedanta movement and its connections with colonial New Zealand, and Jean Watson's Indian fiction.

She was the co-editor of The Literary Half-Yearly: New Zealand Issue (Mysore, 1998) and is a member of the Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia.

For more details, see Associate Professor Stafford’s profile.