Belonging in the Diaspora is a joint production from three researchers, brought together by an early career researcher event in 2019, sponsored by the British Academy, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand: Dr. Corinne Seals (Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington), Dr. Melissa Jogie (Roehampton University), and Dr. Daozhi Xu (Macquarie University). Dr. Francesca Benocci helped the team by curating and building this website.
Dr. Corinne Seals is a Senior Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is also the Founding Director of the Wellington Translanguaging Project and its resource branch Translanguaging Aotearoa, which she established in 2017 and is currently supported by a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund Fast-Start Research Grant. Corinne's overall research is focused on language and identity, especially for heritage language speakers, with Corinne herself being a heritage language speaker of Ukrainian. She also actively researches language policy and planning, linguistic landscapes, and forensic linguistics. Her research has been recognized through awards from the Royal Society of NZ, British Academy, National Science Foundation, Alumni Center at University of California Santa Barbara, Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA, and Victoria University of Wellington, amongst others. Some of her recent (co)publications include Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom (2020, Bloomsbury), Translanguaging in Conjunction with Language Revitalisation (2020, System journal), Choosing a Mother Tongue: The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine (2019, Multilingual Matters), Embracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts (2019, VU Press), and Heritage Language Policies Around the World (2017, Routledge).
Dr. Melissa Jogie is an Early Career Researcher in Education at the University of Roehampton, leading on an institution-wide initiative to develop a research and knowledge exchange culture and citizenship across staff and postgraduate students. In 2021 she was elected to serve as an Academic Representative on the University Senate. Melissa is also a Director for Advance HE's Diversifying Leadership Programme which aims to promote a leadership mindset for BAME academic and professional staff across UK Higher Education institutions. She held a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Comparative and International Education (2015) and completed her PhD on comparative education systems part-time at the Australian National University (2017), while working as a Project and Communications Manager. Melissa is enthusiastic about research-led teaching. In 2020 she was shortlisted for a university-wide Academic Lecturer of the Year award by the Roehampton Students' Union (RSU). Melissa’s research focuses on education for social wellbeing, which proposes a meta-theory of social activism overarching health education, critical race theory, social welfare, and postcolonial pedagogy. Her theoretical insights have led to recent British Academy and UKRI funding awards (2019-2021), multiple small grants focusing on oral care for young children using
ardening techniques (2021-2022), and knowledge exchange projects funded by BIG
South London (2021) and the Cathedrals Group (2020).
ardening techniques (2021-2022), and knowledge exchange projects funded by BIG
South London (2021) and the Cathedrals Group (2020).
Dr. Xu Daozhi is currently a research fellow in the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, Literature, and Language at Macquarie University. She completed her PhD at the University of Hong Kong where she is now an adjunct Assistant Professor. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Indigenous literature, Asian Australian literature, children’s literature, race and ethnicity, and settler colonialism. Her monograph Indigenous Cultural Capital: Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children’s Literature (2018) won the Australia–China Council’s Biennial Australian Studies in China Book Prize in 2018, and was also shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature “Alvie Egan Award” in 2019. She has published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Australian Aboriginal Studies, JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Antipodes, etc. She is secretary of the International Australian Studies Association.
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Dr. Francesca Benocci is a Poutuia | Learning Designer at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington's Centre for Academic Development. She moved from Italy to Aotearoa | New Zealand in 2014. She completed her PhD in Literary Translation Studies at Te Herenga Waka, graduating in 2020. Her research interests include translation studies, transnationalism, postcolonial literature, postcolonial studies, Indigenous literature (with special interest in poetry), and intersectional theory. Her translations of Aotearoa | New Zealand contemporary women poets into Italian appear in numerous publications, and her latest curated and co-translated anthology of poems by Aotearoa | New Zealand beloved author Janet Frame - Parleranno le tempeste, poesie scelte di Janet Frame - has received amazing reviews. She also co-translated Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi, Aotearoa | New Zealand foundational document, into Italian as part of the Treaty Times Thirty, Translating the Treaty of Waitangi into 30 Languages project, designed to empower people living in Aotearoa | New Zealand who have a different fist language to English or te reo Māori.
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