Yasmina Benachour, MA Student (CR)

Culture and Rhetoric

Human Trafficking

Rhetoric in Law


Haley Burford, MA Student (LSE)

literature by women

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


Angie Cruz, BAM Student (CW)

Zines and Hybrid Forms

Indigenous and Latinx Literature

Pop Culture


Aura Díaz-Monroy, MA Student (CR)

Animals and the environment

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

 


Brianne Johnson, MA Student (LSE)

LGBT+ Literature

Narratives on Mental Health

Gender in Media  


Joel Llop, BAM Student (CW)

Historical fiction

Stream of consciousness

Literary Modernism


Hope Matsumoto, MA Student (CSAP)

Pasifika Poetry

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)

Social Justice

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

 

 


Amberlie Ong, MA Student (LSE)

 

Queer Theory

Gender & Sexuality

Early Modern Literature

 


Dominik A. Santiago, MA Student (LSE)

Horror

Science Fiction

Historical Fiction

 


Hillary Stratton, MA Student (CW)

Historical Fiction

Psychological Portrayal

Narrative Empathy

 


T. Kamehanaokalā Taylor, MA Student (CSAP)

 Kānaka ʻŌiwi Literature

Poetry

Indigenous Epistemologies


Kandi Klein Timothy, MA Student (CR)

Rhetorics of health and medicine

Social Justice

Writing Pedagogy


Jake Vermaas, MA Student (CW)

Poetics of ruin

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


Turki Alghamdi, PhD Student

Utopia/Dystopia

Media Studies

Philosophy

 


Alaka’i Antonio, PhD Student

Kanaka ʻŌiwi Methodologies

First-Year Writing Composition

Indigenous Rhetorics and Writing


kaipulaumakaniolono Baker, PhD Student

ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi,

ka Hoʻomana a me nā ʻAha

Ke kūkulu ʻana i Ideology kūʻokoʻa

 


Perry Buto, PhD Student (CW)

Game Studies

Disease in fiction

Narratology


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

Literatures of Hawaiʻi

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


Li Shan Chan, PhD Student

Life Writing

Community-based Creative Writing

Cultural Studies in Asia

 


Justin Clapp, PhD Student

Writing Center pedagogy

Place-based pedagogy

Cultural studies


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


Dax Garcia, PhD Student

Dax PicDisability Studies

First-Year Writing

Modern American Autobiography

 


Sarah Goodson, PhD Student

Feminist rhetorics

Cultural rhetorics

Writing and civic action

Embodied storytelling
Ethics

Andrew Hoe, PhD Student (CW)

BIPOC Children’s Literature

Speculative and Genre Fiction

Non-Eurocentric Storytelling Structure


Amanda Huynh, PhD Student (CW)

Creative Writing

Bilingual/Multilingual Poetry

Cultural Studies


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


Maria Karaan, PhD Student

Austronesian Encounters

Navigational Poetics

Tropography


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)

Fiction and Nonfiction

Asian American Literature

Contemporary American Literature


Christina Nakyong Lee, PhD Student (CW)

Creative Nonfiction/Fiction

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


Lin Chia-Hua, PhD Student

Trans-indigenous study

Pacific literature

Ecocriticism


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


Joseph Manuel, PhD Student

Philippine literature

Cultural studies

Composition and rhetoric


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)

Fiction and hybrid writing
Narratology
Embodiment and Transformation in Folk- and Fairy Tales

Shilpi Suneja, PhD Student (CW)

Fiction, Non-fiction

Life writing, Postcolonial theory, Ecofeminism, Modernist literature,

Immigrant literature, Diaspora studies


Tina Togafau, PhD Student (CW)

Indigenous science fiction

Queer theory

Cultural studies


Brittany Winland, PhD Student (CW)

Ecocriticism and Posthumanism

Fiction Writing and Composition Pedagogy

Queer theory

Hauntology and Monsters


Caroline Zuckerman, PhD Student

Life Writing

Rhetoric and Composition

Writing Center Pedagogy