Description:

Mere Taito, inaugural 2025-27 Postdoctoral Scholar

Born in Fiji, Mere is originally from the island of Rotuma, having strong ancestral connections to the districts of Malha'a and Noa'tau. She emigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2007 where she recently completed her doctoral studies at the University of Otago in Otepoti Dunedin. For her doctoral research, Mere read early to mid-twentieth century multilingual Rotuman mission archival texts and designed a genre of poetry archi digi vispo which fuses archival content, multilingual text, visual elements, and digital functionalities. Her research interests include Indigenous histories and archival texts, Indigenous literary texts, creative practice as Indigenous methodology, multi-media and multigenre texts, language regeneration, and digital storytelling.