Paul Millar is a lecturer in English at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), with research interests in New Zealand and Pacific literature. He holds a BA (Hons) from Auckland University and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. He was a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington from 1997, before moving to the University of Canterbury in 2009. In 2001 he taught and conducted research at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa as an exchange professor and Fulbright scholar. He is a founding board member of the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (www.nzetc.org), and was for some years a member of the board of the New Zealand Book Council. In 2003 he was awarded the prestigious Copyright Licensing Limited Writer's Award. He has twice judged the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.