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AFFILIATE FACULTY MEMBER

Anne Kennedy

 

Personal information

 

Name: Anne Kennedy

Title: Professor                                                                                         

Department: English

Areas of interest:

Creative writing (Fiction)

Creative writing (Screenwriting)

 

Research Interests:

Anne Kennedy is from Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has published five books of fiction and poetry including the novel, A Boy and His Uncle (Picador) and the poetry sequence, Sing-song (Auckland University Press). Her newest book, the narrative poem, The Time of the Giants (Auckland University Press), concerns a legacy of the Irish diaspora. Among several awards, she has won the BNZ/Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, the Montana New Zealand Award for Poetry, and the Auckland University Literary Fellowship. She has worked as a critic, a script editor and a screenwriter, co-writing the screenplay for Crush with director Alison Maclean and adapting Dorothy Porter’s novel in poetry, Monkey’s Mask, for the screen. Anne is a co-editor of Trout: an online journal of arts and literature from Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands.

 

Theses supervised (last 3 years):

 

Contact information:

Email: anne.kennedy@hawaii.edu          Phone: 956-8584         Office: KUY 216

 

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