All colloquia are held at 3 PM Thursday in Kuykendall 410 unless otherwise noted.
| Jan. 12 | Thursday | Jaimie Gusman, reading |
| Jan. 19 | Thursday | Georganne Nordstrom, Comp. job talk |
| Jan. 24 | Tuesday | Cathryn Molloy, Comp. job talk |
| Jan. 26 | Thursday | Susan Najita, Pac Lits. job talk |
| Feb. 1 | Wednesday | Rebecca Lorimer, Comp. job talk |
| Feb. 2 | Thursday | Alice Te Punga Sommerville, Pac Lits. job talk |
| Feb. 7 | Tuesday | Erin Suzuki, Pac Lits. job talk |
| Feb. 8 | Wednesday | Steven Winduo, Pac Lits. job talk |
| Feb. 9 | Thursday | Barbara Foley, visiting scholar, “Repression in Biography, Repression in History: The Politics of the Political Unconscious” |
| Feb. 16 | Thursday | Monica Kaiwi, reading |
| Feb. 23 | Thursday | John Zuern, “Who’s There?: Two Models of ‘Interpellation’ and their Implications” |
| March 1 | Thursday | Aiko Yamashiro, No’u Revilla, Jaimie Gusman, Lyz Soto, graduate student reading, “Oh the Places We (Won’t) Go: Space, Place, and Performance in Poetry” |
| March 6 | Tuesday | Cheryl Naruse, graduate student research |
| March 8 | Thursday | Shawna Ryan, Visiting Distinguished Writer, reading |
| March 15 | Thursday | Jamaica Osorio, Marjorie Edel Reading Series |
| March 22 | Thursday | Marie Alohalani Brown, Ka Po‘e Mo‘o: Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities |
| April 3 | Tuseday | Amanda Adams-Handy, Steven Gin, Nadia Inserra: Graduate Student Research |
| April 5 | Thursday | Department Meeting: DPC matters, hiring for 2012-13 |
| April 12 | Thursday | Richard Nettell: Assessment |
| April 19 | Thursday | Jill Dahlman: Assesing Online Instruction |
| April 23 | Monday | Shawna Ryan: Emergence, A Reading of Original Work by by UHM Graduate Student Fiction Writers |
| April 26 | Thursday | Graduate Program Assessment |
| May 3 | Tuesday | Department Party for Graduating Students |