| Farewell to
Robbie
Shapard
By Tim Denevi
On Monday May 7th,
2007, the UH Mānoa English Department gathered to
say farewell to professor Robert Shapard, who was retiring after more
than two decades of teaching.
Professor Shapard has enjoyed an astounding career as a successful
editor, writer, and mentor. He founded and ran the nationally acclaimed
magazine Mānoa; he has continued to publish fiction in noted journals
across the country; and he has been personally responsible for
popularizing the genres “sudden” and
“flash” fiction in the anthologies Sudden Fiction,
Sudden Fiction International, Flash Fiction Forward, and New Sudden
Fiction.
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Meet
ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui
ku`ualoha ho`omanawanui joined
the English Department faculty as an Assistant
Professor of Hawaiian literature in Fall 2007. A long-time advocate of
Hawaiian education, ku`ualoha holds the only faculty position dedicated
to Hawaiian literature anywhere in the world. Born in Kailua, O`ahu,
and raised both there and at Wailua Homesteads, Kaua`i, ku`ualoha
ho`omanawanui is the oldest of two girls and one of many mo`opuna
(grandchildren) of her most important inspiration, her Hawaiian tūtū
(grandmother) Sarah Poni’ala Kakelaka Meyer. “I was
lucky to be born on my tūtū’s birthday; my inspiration for
pursuing Hawaiian language, literature, and cultural knowledge all
stems from her positive and loving
influence.”
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The third issue of Tradewinds seems an
appropriate time and place to pay tribute to Professor Cristina
Bacchilega, Chair of the English Department from 2001 through 2007. All
of our chairs in my long memory of the department have contributed
significantly to our programs and accomplishments. Cristina was the
only one with whom I worked closely, however (during the semesters when
I was Associate Chair and Acting Chair), and of all her friends and
admirers, I am as familiar as any with her extraordinary professional
and personal service to us, to the university, and to the communities
of Hawai‘i, and I am perhaps the most indebted to (and
challenged by) her remarkable example. She would of course insist that
whatever has been accomplished over the last six years is owing to the
good will, energy, hard work, and talents of colleagues, students, and
staff—but it was Cristina Bacchilega who energized us and
brought out our best.
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