Ms Page Maitland

Casual Academic

School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Career Summary

Biography

Dr. Page A. O. Maitland is a linguist and researcher from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. She specialises in the field of language contact and change, and in Pacific linguistics, particularly languages of West Papua, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. For her Honours thesis (2020) she produced the most comprehensive grammar to date of the Fayu (Iyarike) language of the Lakes Plain family, in remote cooperation with members of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and the Fayu community. Her PhD thesis (2025) took a multidisciplinary approach to examining the effects of linguistic contact on verbal categories in a range of languages spoken across the New Guinea area.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle

Keywords

  • creoles
  • hdr
  • language change
  • language contact
  • linguistics
  • pacific linguistics
  • papua new guinea
  • papuan
  • phd
  • west papua

Languages

  • English (Mother)
  • German (Fluent)
  • Indonesian (Working)
  • Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian) (Working)
  • Swedish (Working)
  • Dutch (Working)
  • French (Working)

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
470407 Language documentation and description 20
451310 Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages 60
470304 Comparative language studies 20

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Casual ISSP Tutor Wollotuka University of Newcastle
Indigenous Education and Research
Australia
Casual Academic University of Newcastle
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Australia
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Chapter (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2025 Maitland P, 'Identity Crises and Dreams of Being: Gender Ambiguity and Performance in Ingmar Bergman's Cinema', A Companion to Ingmar Bergman, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ 101-116 (2025) [B1]
DOI 10.1002/9781119886709.ch6
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Ms Page Maitland

Positions

Casual Academic
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures

Casual ISSP Tutor Wollotuka
Indigenous Education and Research
Engagement and Equity Division

Contact Details

Email page.maitland@newcastle.edu.au

Office

Room SR163
Building Social Science
Location Callaghan Campus
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
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