Jane McRae was a lecturer in Māori language and literature at the Māori Studies Department of the University of Auckland from 1993 to 2003; since then she has been a freelance tran...view moreJane McRae was a lecturer in Māori language and literature at the Māori Studies Department of the University of Auckland from 1993 to 2003; since then she has been a freelance translator and researcher of nineteenth-century Māori literature. Among her publications are, as author, ‘Maori Literature: A Survey’, in Terry Sturm (ed.), The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature (1998) and Ngā Mōteatea: An Introduction / He Kupu Arataki, translated by Hēni Jacob (Auckland University Press, 2011), and, as editor with Jenifer Curnow and Ngapare Hopa, Rere atu, taku manu! Discovering History, Language and Politics in the Maori-language Newspapers and He Pitopito Kōrero nō te Perehi Māori: Readings from the Maori-language Press (Auckland University Press, 2002, 2006).view less