Vida Long is a third-year DPhil student at the University of Oxford, having gained her BA(Hons) and MA in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her DPhil research is interdisciplinary, synthesising religious studies and postcolonial literary studies. Her thesis examines the articulation of religion/s in contemporary novels from Aotearoa New Zealand through a postcolonial postsecular framework, focusing on texts by Maurice Gee, Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme and Patricia Grace. She is supervised by Jane Shaw and Andrew Bowyer.