Speakers

Roger T. Ames is Professor of Philosophy with the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, editor of the quarterly journal Philosophy East & West, and codirector of the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program. Dr. Ames’ teaching and research interests focus on comparative philosophy, the philosophy of culture, environmental philosophy, classical Confucianism, and Daoism.

Jeffrey Carroll was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1950. He was educated at Reed College (BA in Literature), the University of Hawaii at Manoa (MA in English), and the University of Washington (PhD in English). He is Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he is currently the department’s Associate Director. He is the author of four books and has published articles on the inter- sections of literary and composition theories, blues music, rhetorical theories of definition, and the uses of cultural artifacts in writing classrooms.

James A. Dator is Professor and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture, the Program in Public Administration, and the Center for Japanese Studies, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Before coming to the University of Hawaii, Prof. Dator taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

Craig Howes has been Editor of the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly since 1994, and a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Hawaii since 1980. He teaches courses in editing, lifewriting, composition, literary theory, and drama. A past President of the Hawaii Literary Arts Council, he currently serves on the boards of Kumu Kahua Theatre and Monkey Waterfall Dance Theatre Company.

John Rieder received his BA from the University of Cincinnati and his MA and Ph.D. from Yale University. He has been a Professor with the English Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1980. For the first 20 years of his career, Dr. Rieder was mainly a specialist in English Romanticism. For the past 10 years, his research has focused on science fiction with a recent publication in 2008 on early science fiction, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press). His areas of interests are in science fiction, the Gothic, Marxist theory, and British Romanticism.

Kimberly Schauman directs the grants program of the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities and oversees two of its special projects including Literature & Medicine: Humanities in the Heart of Health Care and Museum on Main Street, a partnership with the Federation of State Humanities Councils, HCH, and the Smithsonian Institution. She is also adjunct faculty at Chaminade University. Her interests are in the intersection of monument, memory, and identity.

Susan M. Schultz has taught American literature, poetry and creative writing at UHM since 1990. She is author of several books of poems and poetic prose, and editor of vol- umes on John Ashbery and poetic form. She edits Tinfish Press, which publishes experimental writing from the Pacific (http://tinfishpress.com), and also writes a blog, (http://tinfisheditor.blogspot.com).