Haley Burford, MA Student (LSE)
Southeast Asian folklore and poetries
romantic literature
Gabriella Contratto, MA Student (CW)
Culture and Mythology with an emphasis on the Philippines
Location Based Creative Writing
Fiction and Fantasy
Aura Díaz-Monroy, MA Student (CR)
Rhetoric in LGBTQ+ and immigrant spaces
Environmental and social justice
Alysha Haeems, MA Student (CW)
Philosophy, Psychology, and Science in Fiction
Weird Fiction: the speculative, absurd, surreal
Fiction’s relationship with social change, identity, and consciousness
Hope Matsumoto, MA Student (CSAP)
Black & Native Feminisms
Decolonial & Indigenous Pedagogies
Janessa Maxilom, MA Student (CSAP)
Activism in Literature & Media
Asian & Pacific Island Literature
Literary Deconstructions of Societies
Kanaka ‘Oiwi Storytelling & Haku Mo ‘olelo
Jacie Miyashiro, MA Student (CSAP)
Writing Pedagogy
Minority Representation in the Media
Tiffani Muramoto, MA Student (CW)
Asian American post-war diaspora
Exploration of identity through contemporary fairytales
Feminine rage poetry
Kandi Klein Timothy, MA Student (CR)
Rhetorics of health and medicine
Social Justice
Writing Pedagogy
Jake Vermaas, MA Student (CW)
Hybridity and Cultural borderlands
Filipino poetry and martial law
Cameron Mahealani Ahia, PhD Student
Moʻolelo, mele, ʻŌiwi epistemologies
Pacific womenʻs writing and performance
Indigeneity, diasporaneity, decolonial praxis
Alaka’i Antonio, PhD Student
First-Year Writing Composition
Indigenous Rhetorics and Writing
kaipulaumakaniolono Baker, PhD Student
ka Hoʻomana a me nā ʻAha
Ke kūkulu ʻana i Ideology kūʻokoʻa
Claire Buttery, PhD Student
19th/20th Century American Literature
Diasporic Literature
Gender and Race Studies
Elizabeth Calero, PhD Student
Life narrative as forms of resistance
Film and television studies
Feminisms
Donald Carreira Ching, PhD Student
Speculative Fiction
Cultural Studies/Gender Studies
Christina Cawdery, PhD Student
Culturally Relevant Teaching, Pedagogy, and Academia
Intersectional identities in literature and theory
The intersection of identity and form
Kalilinoe Detwiler, PhD Student
Moʻolelo and creative expression (poetry, fiction, art)
ʻŌiwi rhetorics of sovereignty and resurgence
Place-based pedagogy
Pono Fernandez, PhD Student (CW)
Mo‘olelo/Ka‘ao Hawai‘i
Adaptation of Traditional Literature Techniques by Indigenous Oceanic Writers
Young Adult Literature of Oceania
Janine Fujioka, PhD Student (CW)
Japanese American Poetry
Japanese American Literature and Film
Hybrid and Multi-Modal Narrative Structures
Sarah Goodson, PhD Student
Andrew Hoe, PhD Student (CW)
Speculative and Genre Fiction
Non-Eurocentric Storytelling Structure
Matthew Ito, PhD Student
Hawaiian Literature and Methodologies
Place-based Pedagogy
Kuleana and Lawaiʻa Pono as ways to inform relationships to Hawaiʻi’s coastal ecosystems
Aaron Kiilau, PhD Student
Pidgin Literature and Translingual Composition
TV and Film Studies
Music History
Elizabeth Yeonkyung Kim, PhD Student
19th/20th Century British Literature
Translation Studies/Comparative Literature
Appropriation of English Literature by Korean Writers during the Japanese Occupation
Soyeon Kim, PhD Student
Asian, Asian American film
Literature/theory, Postcolonial theory
Diaspora studies
Nicole Kurashige, PhD Student
Visual rhetoric, comic studies, and pop cultural studies
Graphic memoir and autobiography (specifically trauma narratives)
Composition and writing center pedagogy
Micah Lau, PhD Student (CW)
Asian American Literature
Contemporary American Literature
Christina Nakyong Lee, PhD Student (CW)
Disability Studies
Creative Writing Pedagogy
Jiyoung Lee, PhD Student
The family in Asian and Asian American films
Feminist linguistics in literature
Identity performances of the nation in diasporic literature
Arielle Lowe, PhD Student
Literatures of Micronesia, Pacific Islands Literature
Indigenous & Mestiza Rhetorics, “Third Space” Pedagogy
Trauma Narratives, Life Writing
Jade Lum, PhD Student
Fairy Tale and Folktale Studies
Visual Rhetoric and Literature – Video Games, Films, Television, Comics
Genre and Adaptation Studies
Gender Studies and Representation in Popular Culture
Lauren Nishimura, PhD Student
Indigenous and place-based rhetorics
Cultural Studies (particularly issues of race, identity, and indigeneity)
Hawai’i-based/-situated literature
Leiana San Agustin Naholowaʻa, PhD Student
CHamoru orality, myths, and legends
Indigenous Pacific literature in English
Micronesian women and gender studies
Joana O’Steen, PhD student
Environmental Literature and place-based rhetorics
Irish literature (esp. contemporary Irish drama and postmodern Northern Irish poetry)
Literary linguistics and digital humanities in literary studies
Leilani Portillo, PhD student (CW)
Kanaka Maoli Poetics and Epistemology
Queer Indigenous Pacific Diasporas
Hana Noʻeau as Methodology
Ren Pruitt, PhD Student
Indigenous literature and Decolonial Theory/praxis
Pacific Island Literature and Environmental Humanities
Queer/Gender literature and theory, Affect theory
Mariah Jane Robinson, PhD Student
Gender & Queer Studies
Mental health in literature
Life writing as healing & social change
Chandanie Somwaru, PhD Student (CW)
Transgenerational Asian American culture and language / Asian and Asian American women’s literature
Oral traditions / Multilingual storytelling
Hybrid Texts / Documentary Poetics / Experimental Poetry
Wyatt Souza, PhD Student
Mele, moʻolelo, and kaʻao Hawaiʻi
Indigenous methodologies/theories
ʻĀina based pedagogy
Mackenzie Suess, PhD Student (CW)
Shilpi Suneja, PhD Student (CW)
Life writing, Postcolonial theory, Ecofeminism, Modernist literature,
Immigrant literature, Diaspora studies
Brittany Winland, PhD Student (CW)
Fiction Writing and Composition Pedagogy
Queer theory
Hauntology and Monsters