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Dr Mere Taito, inaugural 2025-27 Postdoctoral Scholar, CNAIR

Born in Fiji, Mere is from the island of Rotuma and has strong ancestral ties to the districts of Malha'a and Noa'tau. She migrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2007 and recently completed her doctoral studies at the University of Otago in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Her doctoral research involved close readings of early to mid-twentieth-century multilingual Rotuman mission archives and the development of archi digi vispo, a poetic genre that fuses archival materials, multilingual text, visual composition, and digital functionalities. Her research interests include Indigenous histories and archival texts, Indigenous literary production, creative practice as Indigenous methodology, multimedia and multigenre storytelling, language regeneration, and digital narrative forms.