Alex Calder Editor

Dr Alex Calder teaches New Zealand and American literature in the English Department of The University of Auckland. He has written extensively on the literature of the cross-cultural frontier and the problems of settlement, and is an authority on the works of Herman Melville. Dr Calder is the author of The Writing of New Zealand: Inventions and Identities (Reed, 1993) and coeditor of Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840 (University of Hawai'i Press, 1999).