MĀNOA Staff
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S. Shankar is a novelist, literary and cultural critic, and translator. He is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Editor of Mānoa journal; and a former member of the Board of External Experts appointed to advise the Swedish Academy in the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2022-2025). Shankar’s most recent book is his third novel Ghost in the Tamarind, published in September 2017. His critical work THE COST OF LIVING: POVERTY ABOLITION AND CULTURAL FICTIONS OF THE POOR is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
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Amanda Galvan Huynh is a Chicana writer and educator from Texas. She is the author of Where My Umbilical is Buried (2023), a chapbook, Songs of Brujería and Co-Editor of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics (2019). Amanda earned her PhD in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, MFA in Poetry at Old Dominion University, BA in English at the University of Texas at Arlington, and BA in Biology at the University of Texas at Dallas. Currently, she is working on a hybrid memoir.
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Michaela Gillan is an undergraduate student in Information & Computer Sciences on the Creative Computational Media track, with a minor in English, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Shaped by her upbringing in the Philippines and her experiences across multiple cultures through travel, her work aims to bridge technology and storytelling by exploring how digital media can amplify diverse cultural narratives. She combines her technical training with a passion for literature and community engagement, using her time at Mānoa journal to deepen her understanding of publishing processes, website development, and multicultural storytelling that honors the complexities of diasporic and transnational identities.
Previous MĀNOA Staff
2024
Staff | Carson Compos, Gabriella Contratto, Alexa Cho (Fall)
Staff | Audrey Beaton, Anna Kalabukhova, Precy Pananganan, and Chandanie Somwaru (Spring)
Abernethy Fellows | Audrey Beaton, Anna Kalabukhova, and Chandanie Somwaru
2023
Editor | Craig Santos Perez (Spring)
Editor | S. Shankar (Fall)
Managing Editor | Amanda Galvan Huynh (Fall)
Staff | Audrey Beaton and Chandanie Somwaru (Fall)
Abernethy Fellows | Audrey Beaton and Chandanie Somwaru (Fall)
2022
Editor | Frank Stewart
Managing Editor | Pat Matsueda
Associate Editor | Noah Perales-Estoesta
Staff | Li Shan Chan and Quinn White
Abernethy Fellow | Li Shan Chan
Designer and Art Editor | Barbara Pope
2021
Editor | Frank Stewart
Managing Editor | Pat Matsueda
Associate Editor | Noah Perales-Estoesta
Designer and Art Editor | Barbara Pope
2020
Editor | Frank Stewart
Guest Editors | Alok Bhalla and Ming Di
Managing Editor | Pat Matsueda
Associate Editor | Noah Perales-Estoesta
Staff | Silvana Mae Bautista
Designer and Art Editor | Barbara Pope
2019
Editor | Frank Stewart
Guest Editors | Alok Bhalla, Ming Di, and Tony Barnstone
Managing Editor | Pat Matsueda
Associate Editor | Noah Perales-Estoesta
Staff | Silvana Mae Bautista and Soumya Rachel Shailendra
Designer and Art Editor | Barbara Pope