The main project publication
Island Tales: New Creative Interpretations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Writing (ed. Alice Chapman Kelly, Simon Grennan, Michelle Keown and Shari Sabeti, with graphic adaptations by Simon Grennan and Solomon Enos; illustrations by Solomon Enos and Lalovai Pesetā; poetry by Keao NeSmith, Selina Tusitala Marsh and Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard; and Hawaiian and Samoan translations by Keao NeSmith and Elisapeta Alaimaleata). Honolulu: Bess Press, 2025.
Related publications
Below, Michelle Keown, Shari Sabeti and Simon Grennan share their academic publications both underpinning and outcome of the project “Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement”.
Simon Grennan
Books (single authored)
Grennan, S. (2026) Thinking about Comics (London: Bloomsbury).
Grennan, S. (2022) Thinking About Drawing (London: Bloomsbury).
Grennan, S. (2017) A Theory of Narrative Drawing (New York: Palgrave).
Graphic novels
Grennan, S. (2015) Dispossession: a novel of few words (London: Jonathan Cape).
Books (edited)
Grennan, S. and L. Grove (Eds.) (2015) Transforming Anthony Trollope: ‘Dispossession’, Victorianism and 19th century word and image. Leuven: Leuven University Press
Book chapters
Grennan, S. (2023) Comics Drawing: A (Poly)Graphic History in Ahmed, M. (Ed.) Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Michelle Keown
Books (single authored)
Keown, M., Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Keown, M., Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (London: Routledge, 2005)
Books (edited)
Keown, M. (ed. and introduction), Jerakiaarlap: A Marshall Islands Epic (Pohnpei: Island Research and Education Initiative, 2019).
Keown, M., Andrew Taylor and Mandy Treagus (eds), Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (Routledge, 2018).
Academic journal articles
Keown, M., ‘Isles of Voices: Scotland in the Indigenous Pacific Literary Imaginary’, International Journal of Scottish Literature 9 (2013): 51-67.
Book chapters
Keown, M., and Murray, S., ‘The Pacific’, in Graham Huggan (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 607-627.
SHARI SABETI
Academic Journals
Sabeti, S. (2013) ‘A different kind of reading’: the emergent literacy practices of a school based graphic novel reading group. British Educational Research Journal, 39 (5): 835-852.
Sabeti, S. (2016). Shakespeare, Adaptation and ‘Matters of Trust’. Cambridge Journal of Education, 47 (3), 337-354.
Sabeti, S. 2019. ‘Making Murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i: an exploration of the limits and possibilities of artistic agency in a community education project.’ Special Issue: Creative Engagement in Migration Research. Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture (10:1) 71-87.
Sabeti, S. (2023). ‘You think you know, but you have no idea’: on anger, critical pedagogy and the dilemmas of being a teaching artist. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 33 (2), 633–653.
Forthcoming outputs from the project
Sabeti, S. [forthcoming] ‘Ending badly from the beginning’: facing finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson’. In Artful Education and Death: Facing Finitude through Living Pedagogy, ed. MacAllister, J., Affifi, R. and Pirie, A. London: Bloomsbury.
Sabeti, S. [forthcoming] ‘On observing two Pacific Island poets teach: some reflections on the vā and the artistry of teaching’. In Reclaiming the Artistry of Teaching, ed. Biesta, G. and Affifi, R. London: Bloomsbury.
