A recipient of the UH Regents Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004, Paul Lyons stood out as one of the English department’s most respected and beloved teachers, mentors and scholars.
The UH Mānoa North Shore Field School guided students in the recording of oral history to preserve the experiences of kūpuna in Waialua.
Seri Luangphinith has published The Paths We Cross: The Lives and Legacies of Koreans on the Big Island, a book about the history of Korean immigrants to Hawaiʻi Island.
The flash fiction writer is a 2016 graduate of Keaʻau High School and intends to become a high school English teacher.
Schultz will read from her last two books of poetry—Memory Cards: Thomas Traherne Series and Memory Cards: Simone Weil Series, on April 12.
Betsy Gilliland and Georganne Nordstrom from UH Mānoa’s College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature each received a Fulbright Award for the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters, respectively.
Avree Ito-Fujita, an English PhD candidate, is one of only four student leaders nationwide who received the award and this is her second IWCA award.
UH Manoa’s S. Shankar, will teach andconduct research at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, in Chennai, India.
Brandy Dobson received the the National Collegiate Honors Council’s top prize for her thesis titled, “A Murmur in the Weeds: A Memoir.”
Shawna Yang Ryan was honored by the Before Columbus Foundation for her 2016 novel Green Island.
