Curriculum Vitae
NICOLE K. P. Furtado
Indigenous Futurisms, Native Hawaiian Virtual Art, & Oceanic Futurities
Education
Ph.D. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside, June 2023
Dissertation: Galaxies like Islands, Islands like Galaxies: Envisioning Futurity in Seascape Technologies
Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science
M.A. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside, with distinction, June 2020
Thesis Topic: Indigenous Futurisms, Indigenous Feminisms, & Virtual Reality
B.A. English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, December 2017
A.A. Liberal Arts, Leeward Community College, December 2015
Publications
[In-Press] “Across Lewa and Kikilo.” An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific, University of Hawaiʻi Press, Forthcoming Summer 2023.
[In-Press] “Carving Identities in Cyberspace: Indigenous Virtual Reality.” On Slippery Grounds, Aesthetic Experience in Uncanny Valleys, Rowman & Littlefield, Forthcoming Fall 2023.
[In-Press] “Interview with author Stephen Graham Jones.” Horror and Indigeneity, University of Texas Press, Forthcoming Fall 2023.
“Wandering the World’s Most Isolated Metropolis: Structured Dispossession & Post-Apocalyptic Stress Syndrome in the Film Waikiki.” Trans-Indigenous Science Fictions, Science Fiction Research Association Review, 2021.
Book Review on Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaii and Oceania. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2020, American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles
Along the Chaparral: Memorializing the Enshrined. University of California, Riverside, Spring 2020.
“Affirming our Liminality and Writing on the Walls: How We Welcome in Our Writing Center” The Peer Review on (Re)Defining Welcome, Summer 2019.
“Highs and Lows of the Middle Class.” Flux Hawaiʻi, 2016.
“Serving Life’s Basics.” Chinatown Now, 2016.
“A Q&A with Fashion Designer Kini Zamora.” LEI Magazine, 2016.
“Dinner at Mark’s.” Chinatown Now, 2016.
Conferences
“Hyperreal Immersions: Las Vegas & the Fulfillment of Capitalistic Desire.” Seeding Relations: Beyond Settler Colonial and Racialized Ecologies, Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, March 2022.
“Wandering the World’s Most Isolated Metropolis: Structured Dispossession & Post-Apocalyptic Stress Syndrome in the Film Waikiki.” London Science Fiction Research Association, London, England, September 2021.
“Hawaiian Futurism: The Work of Solomon Enos.” The Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, London, England, October 2021.
“Galaxies like Islands, Islands like Galaxies: Envisioning Futurity through Indigenous Cosmogony.” Comics and Their Audiences / Audiences and Their Comics 2021, University of Cambridge, England, June 2021.
“love letters to the future: Upsetting Settler Futurities by Reclaiming Indigenous Joy.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2020. [event was canceled due to COVID-19].
“Envisioning Ea and the Reconnecting of Land-Based Pedagogies in Native Hawaiian Speculative Art.” Climate Fictions / Indigenous Studies 2020, University of Cambridge, England, January 2020.
“Carving Identities in Cyberspace: Indigenous Virtual Reality.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, University of Waikato, New Zealand, June 2019.
“Carving Identities in Cyberspace: Indigenous Virtual Reality.” Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, June 2019.
“Indigenous Virtual Reality.” (Dis)junctions Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 2019.
“Affirming our Liminality and Writing on the Walls.” International Writing Centers’ Collaborative, Portland, Oregon, March 2017.
Symposiums
“Focusing on the Future: Education and the Formation of Native Hawaiian Cultural Consciousness.” Speculative Futures of Education Symposium at the University of California, Riverside, December 2019.
“Research Grantees Works-in-Progress Roundtable.” Speculative Futures of Ecologies Symposium at the University of California, San Diego, November 2019.
Invited Talks
Invited Speaker, Writers Resist, University of California, Riverside, Fall Quarter 2019.
Invited Speaker, Healing the Earth Conference, University of California, Riverside, Spring
Quarter 2019.
Invited Speaker, Research Agenda Roundtable, University of California, Riverside, Spring
Quarter 2019.
