Creative Writing Faculty

Kristiana Kahakauwila, MFA

creative writing and craft theory, fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, journalism, travel writing, Oceanic/Pacific literature, literatures of Hawai'i, contemporary Native American literature

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Noʻu Revilla, Ph.D.

creative writing; spoken word; Indigenous and decolonial poetics; lyric essays, hybrid, multi-lingual, and experimental writing; ʻŌiwi literature and theory; Pacific poetry and performance; feminist studies; queer theory; cultural studies

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S. Shankar, Ph.D.

Postcolonial theory and literature, creative writing, critical caste studies, cultural journalism, literary theory and cultural studies, translation and translation studies, US literature of immigration

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Joyce Pualani Warren, Ph.D.

Native Hawaiian Literature; Pacific Literature; American Literature; Native Pacific Epistemologies and Cosmogonies (of darkness, space, and time); Black Pacific; Native Pacific Feminisms; Postcolonialism; Diaspora; Literary Nationalism.

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