Graduate Faculty

Frank Ardolino ^R
-Renaissance literature, drama

Cristina Bacchilega, Ph.D.
-Fairy-tale studies, folklore and literature, gender and fairy tales, translation studies, narratology, feminist theory and literature, folkloristics and colonialism, Hawaiian mo‘olelo in translation

Morgan Blair ^R, M.A.
-creative writing

Stephen Canham, Ph.D.
-Victorian and juvenile literature, the novel, visual art and literature

James Caron, Ph.D.
-19th-century American
Literature, Mark Twain, comic art and literature, popular culture, realism and
modernism, literary theory

Jeffrey Carroll, Ph.D.
-rhetoric and composition, American novel, fiction writing

Steven Curry ^R, Ph.D.
-American literature, children's literature, comparative psychologies and religions, modern poetry, poetic theory, folklore, myth and ritual, existentialism

LaRene Despain ^R, Ph.D.
-theory and practice of teaching composition, American literature, 20th-century fiction

Daphne Desser, Ph.D.
-rhetorical history, theory, and criticism, writing and difference, identity construction and negotiation in composition studies, writing pedagogy

Cynthia Franklin, Ph.D.
-contemporary women's literature, ethnic U.S. literatures, life writing, disability studies, feminist theory, cultural studies

Miriam Fuchs, Ph.D.
-modernism, mixed genres, women’s literature, modern American literature, autobiography theory and criticism, art and literature, 20th-century women's literature, and all modes of life writing

Candace Fujikane, Ph.D.
-Hawai‘i literature and critical theory, Asian settler colonialism in Hawai‘i, anticolonial
cartography in Hawai‘i, Asian American literature and critical theory, Asian American literary cartography.

Steven Goldsberry, Ph.D.
-creative writing

Mark Heberle, Ph.D.
-Renaissance literature, Vietnam War literature

Jim Henry, Ph.D.
-composition studies, workplace and work life writing, technical/professional communication, auto/ethnography, mentoring, writing performance

Thomas Hilgers ^#, Ph.D.
-composition studies, psychology and literature

Craig Howes, Ph.D.
-biography and life writing, 19th-century literature, literary theory, research methods

ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui, Ph.D.
-native Hawaiian literature, literatures of Hawai‘i, folklore and mythology, children’s literature, translation studies, oral tradition, comparative Oceanic folklore

Ruth Y. Hsu, Ph.D.
-Asian American and post-colonial literatures, ethnic literature, American ethnic literatures, diaspora studies, modernism, feminist criticism

Robert Hughes ^#, Ph.D.
-late 19th and 20th-century American literature, fiction

Judith Kellogg, Ph.D.
-medieval English and French literature, comparative literature, social backgrounds, medieval women writers, Arthurian literature, identity formation.

Anne E. Kennedy ^#, B.Mus.
-creative writing: fiction, poetry, narrative poem.

Joseph Lew, Ph.D.
-late 18th-century literature, English and European romanticism, Gothic

Laura Lyons, Ph.D.
-post-colonial literatures and theory, Irish literature, cultural studies

Paul Lyons, Ph.D.
-American literatures, American Pacific orientalism, literary theory

Glenn Man, Ph.D.
-19th century British literature, narrative, film

Kristin McAndrews, Ph.D.
-folklore, oral narrative, American literature (1865-present), cultural studies in relationship to gender, culture and cuisine, humor and tourism

Robert McHenry, Ph.D.
-restoration and 18th-century literature, Shakespeare, literature and art

Barry Menikoff ^#, Ph.D.
-19th and 20th-century literature, textual criticism

Rodney Morales, M.A.
-creative writing, Pacific literature, American ethnic literature

Jonathan Morse, Ph.D.
-American literature, literary history, modernism, prosody, photography

Peter Nicholson, Ph.D.
-Chaucer, medieval literature, English language

Joseph H. O'Mealy, Ph.D.
-Victorian Literature, Theatre and Drama

Robert Onopa ^R, Ph.D.
-creative writing, science fiction

Gary Pak, Ph.D.
-Creative writing, literatures of Hawai‘i and the Pacific, Asian American literature, Korean American literature, ethnic American literature, modern Korean literature in translation, new physics, jazz

Producer, writer and editor of the ‘Ōlelo Community TV series, Plantation Children: 2nd-generation Koreans in Hawai‘i.

Darin Payne, Ph.D.
-rhetorics of technology and space, new media rhetorics, globalization, composition studies, collaborative learning, cultural reproduction

Joan Peters, Ph.D.
-modern British and American literature, narratology, the British novel

Kathy Phillips, Ph.D.
-gender studies, 20th-century comparative literature, war literature, post-colonial literature

Ann Rayson ^R, Ph.D.
-African-American literature, ethnic American literatures, professional editing, autobiography

John Rieder, Ph.D.
-Science fiction, the Gothic, Marxist theory, British Romanticism

Todd Sammons, Ph.D.
-Renaissance and 17th-century literature, Milton, rhetoric, science fiction

Susan Schultz, Ph.D.
-20th-century poetry in English, American literature, creative writing

S. Shankar, Ph.D.
-postcolonial theory and literature, creative writing, literary theory and
cultural studies, translation and translation studies

Gay Sibley ^R, Ph.D.
-British and American novel, Victorian literature, satire, hymnody

Caroline Sinavaiana, Ph.D.
-Pacific literature, folklore and film, comparative ethnic literatures, women's writing, creative writing, folkloristics and colonialism, digital storytelling and folk performance as community-building

Frank Stewart, M.A.
-creative writing, modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, American nature writing

Robert Sullivan ^#, Dip.Libr.
-Maori and Polynesian mythology,cultural memory across a range of disciplines (library and information science, psychology, Matauranga Maori, creative writing, history, political studies, anthropology, cultural geography, contemporary and traditional arts), creative writing, creative non-fiction

Cynthia Ward, Ph.D.
-critical theory, postcolonial literature, popular culture, oral and performance theory, the novel, orality and performance, west African/African diasporic oral and popular traditions,comparative visual culture

Valerie Wayne ^R, Ph.D.
-early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare, early modern women writers, textual editing, feminism and culture

John Zuern, Ph.D.
-electronic media, literature and technology, literary theory, cultural studies