Fall 2025 English Department Colloquium Schedule

[As always, please be on the lookout for messages about adjustments/additions.]

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursdays in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified. Unusual dates, times, and

venues are in bold.

Colloquia will be held in person unless otherwise specified.

August 28 Department Meeting

September 4 Confronting GenAI in our Courses

Sarah Allen, Anna Feuerstein, and Taylor Marty

September 11 Rank Meetings

September 18 1:30 pm Crystal Hana Kim (EALL and W@M)

Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

September 25 Department Meeting (with Peter Arnade)

6:30 pm Rebecca Solnit (Better Tomorrows Speaker Series and W@M)

Orvis Auditorium, registration required

October 2 Eugenia Zuroski, “Ludic Reading; or, A Method for Wrestling with Angels.”

October 9 Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright, Interim Associate Vice Provost for Student Success

and Dean of Students, “From Personality to Pedagogy: Understanding First-Year

Students and Shaping First-Year Writing Courses”

October 16 Donald Carreira Ching and representatives Amy Perruso and Della Au Belatti,

“Blood Work: A Reading and Talk Story”

October 23 Department Meeting

October 30 12:00 pm Jack Taylor, “Tensions in Survivor Narratives from Rwanda: Life-Writing and

Memory” (Center for Biographical Research and English)

Cathy Linh Che, “Becoming Ghost: A Reading and Conversation” (W@M)

November 6 Works in Progress

November 13 Department Meeting

November 20 Hold

November 27 Thanksgiving Break

December 4 Report from Department Website Migration/Promotion Team

Friday, December 12 Fall Reception. 12:00 pm

English Department Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2025

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursdays; unusual dates/times are underscored.

Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.

As always, please be on the lookout for additional details, adjustments, and additions.

January 16 Department Meeting

January 23 Franny Choi, Visiting Writer in Residence

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

January 30 Poetry Position Candidate

February 6 Poetry Position Candidate

February 13 Department Meeting

February 20 Poetry Position Candidate

February 27 Leigh Claire La Berge, Chadwick Lecturer

March 6 Mānoa Special Issue Launch with guest editors Laurel Fantauzzo

and Rajiv Mohabir

March 13 Elissa Washuta

March 20 Spring Break

March 27 Department Meeting

April 3 Javier Zamora

April 10 English Represents!

April 17 Creative Writing Graduate Showcase

April 24 Lamakū Training Workshop

May 1 Open

May 8 Spring Reception 12:00 pm

Fall 2024 English Department Colloquium Schedule

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday; unusual dates/times are underscored.

Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.

As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions.

August 29 Department Meeting and Reception`

September 5 Rank Meetings

September 12 Reading and Craft Talk with Kristiana Kahakauwila

(CBR event co-sponsored by English)

September 19 Title IX/EEO/Student Conduct Workshop

September 26 No colloquium

October 3 Reading and Reception in Tribute to Caroline Sinavaiana

with James Thomas Stevens

October 10 Department Meeting

October 17 Samina Mishra, Happiness Class: Is Happiness Teachable?

October 24 Department Meeting

October 31 Wo Chan, Togetherness

November 7 Nadya Tannous, You Can’t Kill an Idea: Palestine Will Be Free

November 14 Panel and Discussion on History/Historicism in the Curriculum

November 21 Department Meeting

November 28 Thanksgiving Break

December 5 Hold

December 12 Fall Reception. 12:00 pm

Spring 2024 English Department Colloquium Schedule

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday.

Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.

As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions

January 11 Department Meeting

January 18 No colloquium

Feb 8 Words@Mānoa Presents Bojan Louis

Feb 22 Department Meeting

Feb 29 “The Place of the Personal Essay in our Classrooms,” discussion facilitated by Sarah Allen

March 7 Discussion of Graduate Program Curriculum facilitated by Derrick Higginbotham

March 14 T Kira Madden, Visiting Writer in Residence

March 21 Spring Break—No colloquium

March 28 Sherene Seikaly, Visiting Lecturer

April 4 Department Meeting

April 11 Jennifer Doyle, Chadwick Lecturer

April 12, 10:30 am Workshop with Jennifer Doyle

April 18 Debra Hawhee, Visiting Lecturer

April 25 English Represents!: Undergraduate Showcase

May 2, 12:00 pm Department Reception

Fall 2023 English Department Colloquium Schedule

All events are at 3:00 PM on Thursday.

Colloquia will be held in person in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise specified.

As always, please be on the lookout for adjustments/additions

8/24 Department Meeting and Fall Reception

8/31 no colloquium

9/7 Discussion of AI and Teaching with Political Science Faculty

9/14 In-Rank Meetings (for Faculty) and Meetings for Lecturers

9/21 Concentration Meetings (for Graduate Faculty)

9/28 Department Meeting

10/5 Francesca Royster, Listening for My Mother: Travels in Music from Chicago to Bahia

10/12 Signs of Life Workshop: “Responding to Self-Disclosure in Student Writing,”

facilitated by Sarah Allen (Writing Programs Director), Liz Calero, Alexander

Khaddouma (UHM Counseling Center) Brittany Winland (Assistant Writing

Programs Director)

10/19 Malak Mattar, “Art, Gaza and Decolonization”

10/26 Sarah Allen, “Beyond Anthropocentrism(?): Logos and the Aesthetic

Relation”

11/2 Discussion of Policies, Assignments, Attendance, and Other Issues in

Undergraduate Teaching, faciliated by Anna Feuerstein (Undergraduate

Director)

11/9 Margo Steines, Reading from Brutalities: A Love Story

11/16 Department Meeting

11/23 Thanksgiving Holiday: No Colloquium

11/30 TBD

12/7 Department Reception [details to follow]