KIMO ARMITAGE, along with Elama Kanahele and Keao NeSmith, recently published “Aloha Niihau, the Oral Histories of Three Women from Niihau.” Kimo has a poem, “I (noun in progress),” appearing in TINFISH JOURNAL 17.

FREDERIKA BAIN presented “Bartholemew Fair: Monstrous Births and the Early Modern Imagination” at the 2007 LLL Graduate Students Conference.

HOLLY BRULAND published “Accomplishing Intellectual Work: An Investigation of the Re-Locations Enacted Through On-Location Tutoring” in the Spring 2007 issues of PRAXIS: A WRITING CENTER JOURNAL, and “Gaining Entrance: The Classroom-Based Tutor’s Role in Mentoring First-Year Composition Students” in the Proceedings of the Eleventh College-Wide Conference for Students in Languages, Lingistics, and Literatures.

JULIAN BUKALSKI presented “The Cult of Sandblasting: George Sand and Criticism” at the LLL Graduate Students Conference.

JOSEPH CARDINALE’s short story, “Proportions for the Human Figure,” appeared in the most recent issue of NEW YORK TYRANT.

MORGAN COOPER presented “Palestine’s Role in 9/11: The Use and Abuse of a Trump Card” at the LLL Conference; the paper appears in the conference proceedings. She received a GSO Grant for fieldwork in the West Bank gathering oral testimony from Palestinian women; she was interviewed on this research on KTUH and Brahim Aoude’s ISLAND CONNECTIONS and in KA LEO. Locally, she is President of PACE, founder of Women in Black in Honolulu, and the co-producer for ‘Olelo of “Israel’s Apartheid Wall.” Morgan will be giving a department colloquium later this semester on “Palestine, Apartheid, and Ethnic Cleansing: a Critical Discussion of Gender, Occupation, and Feminist Research in the West Bank,” and is organizing a conference for the Spring on Palestine.

JILL DAHLMAN chaired a panel at the 2007 College Composition and Communication conference in New York City, where she was elected president of her SIG on Visual and Film Rhetoric, and was invited to publish an article on service learning with "Reflections."Jill presented a paper on Star Trek and the holodeck at the Oceanic Popular Culture Association conference held in Honolulu in May 2007, and there she was elected chair of the Science Fiction and Fantasy segment of the OPCA. Jill was named as the chair of the panel for Literature and War at the Rocky Mountain MLA annual convention.

PHIL DRAKE presented “The Myth of Primitive Human Ecology: Rethinking Pre-Colonial Ecology for Developing New Environmental Strategies” at an English Department Colloquium.

KEALA FRANCIS contributes regularly to HONOLULU WEEKLY: “Pigs, Goats, & Lavender, Oh My! Adventures in Agricultural Tourism” appeared in August 2007, and an article on feral pigs in March 2008. She also contributed to the December 2007 issue of SANTÉ Magazine’s “In the Kitchen” section (www.santemagazine.com). Keala served as Associate Editor on the upcoming anthology, "Strangers Among Us," edited by Stacy Bierlein, published by Dzanc Books (formerly OV Books), and scheduled for release in April 2008.

PORSCHA DE LA FUENTE ran a session on The Joy Luck Club as part of the Big Read Program at the Hawaii Kai Public Library in November 2007.

TOM GAMMARINO published the following stories in 2007: “Bum Deal” in WORDRIOT; “Bozo’s Fault” in NIMBLE; “The Biz” in THE APPLE VALLEY REVIEW; “Nympholeplsy” in SQUARE ONE; “Hypocrite Lecteur” in LILY LIT REVIEW; and “The Podiaphile” in SLIPTONGUE.

KAI GASPER has poems forthcoming in `OIWI, HAWAI`I REVIEW, and KALEO. He is currently the poetry editor of HAWAI`I REVIEW, and has been working on co-editing poetry collections for Kahuaomanoa. He participated in Albert Wendt’s poetry reading, “Lift the Hale II.”

AIDEN GLEISBERG presented “Military and Matrimony: Speculation and Interrogation of Heteronormativity” at the LLL Conference.

MAILE GRESHAM’s short story, “Mountain Shadow,” appeared in UNDRAWN LINES. She will be the Assistant Conference Director for the 14th Bieennia Conference on Literature and Hawaii’s Children” in June 2008.

ANN INOSHITA published poems in TINFISH, HAWAI’I PACIFIC REVIEW BEST OF THE DECADE, and BAMBOO RIDGE. She worked with Kahuaomanoa Press and is a member of the Bamboo Ridge Planning Committee, as well as being interim poetry editor for HAWAI’I REVIEW. She will be a guest author in the 2008 CELEBRATE READING. Ann received the John Young Scholarship in the Arts. She is finishing her second collection of poems. Her first book, Manoa Stream, has been shortlisted for a Ka Palapala Po'okela Award.

NADIA INSERRA delivered a paper entitled "'The Land is Life and the Land is Alive': Ecocriticism and Hawai'i's Literatures" at the International Conference on Ecocriticism organized by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy) and held on June 26-27, 2007.
She also presented this paper at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference that was held in Philadelphia on November 2-4, 2007. This summer her review of Marcello D'Orta's Fiabe sgarrupate (Venezia: Marsilio, 2005), an adaptation of classic fairy tales into Neapolitan dialect and humor, will appear in MARVELS & TALES: JOURNAL OF FAIRY-TALE STUDIES 22.1.

CHRIS KELSEY’s short story, “Haole Boss,” appeared in UNDRAWN LINES, an anthology of fiction by Hawai`i-based writers.

KRISTINE KOTECKI gave her paper, “So What if I Like Cindarella? African Film Forgets to be ‘Authentic’” in the English Department Colloquium series, and presented “Audiences Meet Africa: Popular Cinema as Site of Western Hegemonic Meaning-Making” at the Midwest MLA in November 2007.

JESS LAVOLETTE’s story “Yasukuni Incident” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and appeared in WITNESS in early 2008.

BRANDY MCDOUGALL presented a paper on Indigenous Presses at MLA in January 2007. She edited Mahealani Perez-Wendt's poetry collection, Uluhaimalama (Kuleana 'Oiwi Press, 2008), and she continued to serve on the staff of Manoa Journal as Associate Editor, and as president of Kahuaomanoa Student Press, which released Tammie Oka's poetry collection, Weighted Silence, in December and will release Emelihter Kihleng's collection in the Spring. An interview Brandy conducted with Albert Wendt in 2002 will appear on TROUT: A Journal of Literature and the Arts from Aotearoa and the Pacific, edited by Anne Kennedy and Robert Sullivan. A chapbook of poems by Brandy will appear within EFFIGIES (Salt Publications- a UK press), an anthology edited by the Native American poet and writer Allison Hedge Coke, which will also feature the work of Native Alaskan writers DG Okpik and Cathy Rexford, and Mahealani Perez-Wendt. The volume will be distributed within the US.

JOLIVETTE MECENAS presented a paper at the 2007 College Composition and Communication conference in New York City, examining the rhetorical production and reception of identity claims in popular Asian American print and new media. She also presented a paper at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, on film festivals as counter-public spaces of public reasoning for queer women of color. She looks forward to further articulating this argument at a conference at the University of Oregon honoring Chaim Perelman, and at the Rhetorical Society of America conference, where she will workshop her dissertation writing with senior scholars. Locally, Jolivette volunteered as film festival chair for the 4th annual Girl Fest Hawaii, a multi-genre arts festival whose mission is to provide peer education promoting anti-violence against women and girls in local communities.

KIRSTEN MOLLEGAARD presented “Masculinity and the Geography of Desire in two Contemporary Westerns” at the LLL Conference, and published a review of a new translation of THE STORIES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN in MARVELS & TALES.

CHERYL NARUSE in 2007 presented “Testimony in Post-9/11 United States” at UC-Riverside’s 14th Annual Graduate Humanities Conference, “(Un)Shared Values: Alienation, Modernity and Singaporean Identity in Djinn’s PERTH” in an English Department colloquium (which will appear in the GRADUATE JOURNAL OF ASIA/PACIFIC STUDIES (University of Auckland), and “A Critique of DISTINCTION: Rereading the Diasporic Habitus” as the Annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. She is a contributor editor at Beer Northwest Magazine (www.beernew.com).

CARMEN NOLTE presented a paper on “The Politics of Evil: Resonances of Hitler and Fascist Ideology in Harry Potter” in the English Department Colloquium series (September 2007), and addressed Hawaii Pacific University English Majors on “Life After Graduation, or What Can You Do with a Degree in English” (October 2007).

GEORGEANNE NORDSTROM presented a section of her dissertation research at the 7th Annual International Conference on Diversity in Communities, Nations, and Organizations in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in July 2007.

DAVID ODHIAMBO’s second novel, THE SILVER PLATED CHALICE, will be coming out from Arsenal Pulp Press in both Canada and the U.S. in Fall 2008.

JENNIFER ORME presented her paper, “Stories to Live By: Framing Imagination in Television’s Arabian Nights,” in the English Department Colloquium series. She will presented a revised version of this paper at the Fantasy Matters conference in Minnesota in November 2007. Jennifer continues to serve as the Assistant Review Editor for MARVELS & TALES: JOURNAL OF FAIRY TALE STUDIES, and lectures in both the English and Women’s Studies Departments.

RYAN OISHI’s poems, “Mynah Literature” and “Prayer for Surf” appeared in TINFISH, and “The Bus” appeared in KA LEO. He continues to work in a program called AFTER/WORDS in local high schools.

TAMMY PAVICH’s short story, “Change of Weather,” appeared in UNDRAWN LINES.

TIARE PICARD's poems appeared in TINFISH 17 and THE HONOLULU WEEKLY in 2007. She read her work at "Poetry in Performance," a Tinfish Celebration, and "Tinfish Press Readings: Experimental Poetry" at Pacific University, Oregon. She is the recipient of the 2007 Academy of American Poets Prize, the Myrle Clark Award for Creative Writing (2007) and the Red Mandarin Scholarship (2007).

MELANIE RIED presented “Ovid, Translation, and Anti-Theatricalism in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the LLL Conference.

REID SUNAHARA teaches full-time at KCC, where he participated in a conference on composition assessment.

SAGE U’ILANI TAKEHIRO’s first poetry book, HONUA: A COLLECTION, appeared in early 2007. It has been shortlisted for a Ka Palapala Po'okela Award. She is at work on a long collaborative poem that will be performed at Kumu Kahua theatre. She has participated in the Fall Celebrate Reading conference, and will participate in this Spring’s. Her poems appeared in TINFISH and TROUT. Sage teaches Language Arts at Halau Lokahi.

MICHAEL TSAI’s story, “Porter,” appeared in UNDRAWN LINES. Michael is teaching full-time at KCC, and writes for the STAR-BULLETIN.

CHRISTY WILLIAMS presented the following papers in 2007: “Diminishing Fairies: Meta-theatre and the Fairies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” at the LLL (2007); “The Shoe Still Fits: Feminism, Fairy Tales, and Failed Subversion,” at the New Voices Conference in Atlanta (September); and “Justifying Narrative Space: The Use of Embedding and Framing in The Arabian Nights and Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” at the Fantasy Matters Conference in Minneapolis (November). Christy continues to teach at Hawai’i Pacific University.

JENNIFER YEE has a short fiction piece accepted for Rain Farm Press’s online journal PARADIGNS, as well as its print anthology of the same name.