Kristen Bailey, MA Student (CW)
Gender Studies / Masculinity
Minority portrayal in literature
World Reimagining / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Magical Realism
Doroles Black, MA Student (LSE)
Queer Literature & Theory
Creative Writing
Jenniefer Corpuz, MA Student (CSAP)
Pop Cultural Studies
Writing Center Pedagogy
Diana Delgado Cornejo, MA Student (CW)
Kalilinoe Detwiler, MA Student (CSAP)
Contemporary Indigenous Literature
Hawaiʻi rhetoric
Traditional Hawaiian storytelling in screenwriting and animation
Ryan Gapelu, MA Student (CW)
Experimental Poetry, Visual Poetry, and Short Story
Queer Indigeneity
Hope Matsumoto, MA Student (CSAP)
Black & Native Feminisms
Decolonial & Indigenous Pedagogies
Jacie Miyashiro, MA Student (CSAP)
Writing Pedagogy
Minority Representation in the Media
Leomanaolamaikalani Peleiholani-Blankenfeld, MA Student (LSE)
Contemporary Literature
Poetry
Wilson Pham, MA Student (LSE)
British Literature
Modern Media/Pop Culture Literature
Wendy Pias, MA Student (CR)
Rhetoric in Folklore, Fairy tales, and Mythology
Composition Pedagogy
Jordan Restrepo, MA Student (CR)
Rhetoric in Regards to the Emotions
Natalie Schack, MA Student (CW)
Culture and identity in food and travel journalism
Local Asian-American writers
Myth, folktale and ancient storytelling structures
Jake Vermaas, MA Student (CW)
Hybridity and Cultural borderlands
Filipino poetry and martial law
Kayla Watabu, MA Student (CR)
Kanaka ‘Ōiwi and Indigenous rhetorics
Mo’olelo and Storytelling
Trauma and Healing
Cameron Mahealani Ahia, PhD Student
Moʻolelo, mele, ʻŌiwi epistemologies
Pacific womenʻs writing and performance
Indigeneity, diasporaneity, decolonial praxis
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
Kaela Clapp, PhD Student
Race and Gender in Contemporary Literature
Coming of Age Stories
African American Literature
Kari Clements, PhD Student
Donovan Colleps, PhD Student (CW)
Indigenous literatures
Documentary poetry, Short stories, The novel
Lane Davey, PhD Student
Religion & popular culture
Cultural preservation through surfing, music, and social movements
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
Nina Gibson, PhD Student (CW)
Historical and Creative Non-fiction
Multicultural narratives
African American and Asian Cultural Studies and Literature
Sarah Goodson, PhD Student
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
Joshua Lazarus, PhD Student (CW)
Identity-driven poetry and fiction
Hybridity
Orality, literacy, and intertextuality (especially pertaining to Jewish literature)
Christina Nakyong Lee, PhD Student (CW)
Disability Studies
Creative Writing Pedagogy
Jeffery Long, PhD Student (CW)
Modernist fiction
Science/detective fiction
American Romanticism/Transcendentalism
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
Jordan Luz, PhD Student
Asian American Studies & Asian American Literature (specifically Filipino American literature)
Contemporary Local Literature of Hawaiʻi
Popular Culture Studies
Place-Based Pedagogy
Koreen Nakahodo (Schroeder), PhD Student
The literatures of Hawai‘i
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
Tiare Picard, PhD Student (CW)
Postmodern American poetry
Contemporary experimental poetry
Creative writing pedagogy
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
Nani (Bonnie) K. Ross, PhD Student (CW)
Film and television studies
Indigenous visual culture and narratives (often including futurisms)
Amanda Silliman, PhD Student (CW)
Genres: Science fiction & horror
Transhumanism and culture
Queer and feminist theory in literature
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
Norman “T-Man” Thompson, PhD Student
Pacific literature: poetry, creative fiction and non-fiction
Contemporary Hawaiian music
Identity performance: song, dance, tatau
Cynthia Tsai, PhD Student
Victorian literature and literary fantasies
Pacific islands literature
Creative writing
Lyn Uratani, PhD Student
Postcolonial theory, nationalist discourse, subaltern studies
José Rizal and his 19th century contemporaries; Anglophone postcolonial writing
Anglophone representations of Spain and Spanishness
Amy Vegas, PhD Student
Indigenous methodologies,
settler-colonialism,
anti-colonial mapping(s) of `āina,
Literatures of Hawai`i,
placed-based composition pedagogy
Sharon Weiner, PhD Student
Life Writing and Women Artists
The Rhetoric of Women’s Suffrage in America: 1850-1920
Argumentative Writing
Brittany Winland, PhD Student (CW)
Fiction Writing and Composition Pedagogy
Queer theory
Hauntology and Monsters