Contact: hmanshel@hawaii.edu
Office hours:Fall 2020, by appointment
Publications
Peer Reviewed- “William Apess and the Nullification of Settler Law,” forthcoming in Early American Literature 55.3
- “The Desire for Fact: Anti-Racist Ethics in Discourses of Sexual Violence,” Criticism 60.4 (Fall 2018), 511-531.
- “Breathing Material: Cassils and Xandra Ibarra in Los Angeles,” Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 27:1, 137-141.
- "Settler Fantasies: Televised," Public Books, August 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/settler-fantasies-televised/
- Contributor to "Reflections on the Crisis at Hand" Roundtable, Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies, Summer 2020 http://insurrecthistory.org/2020/08/05/reflections-on-the-crisis-at-hand-a-roundtable-part-1/
- "Let's take a moment to appreciate Natalie Diaz's Twitter Cocktails...", Lit Hub, August 2020 https://lithub.com/lets-take-a-moment-to-appreciate-natalie-diazs-twitter-cocktails-which-are-the-medicine-we-need-right-now/
Areas of Interest
- American literature pre-1900
- Law
- Black studies & literatures
- Indigenous studies & literatures
- Queer studies
- Decolonization & Abolition
Education
PhD, English UC Riverside 2020Courses
Spring Semester 2021
- ENG-272: Intro to Lit: Culture & Lit (Pop Culture as Literature)
- ENG-336: American Lit to Mid-19th C
Fall Semester 2020
- ENG-270: Intro to Lit: Literary History
- ENG-337: Am Lit Mid-19th to Mid-20th C