Instructor: Noʻukahauʻoli Revilla
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Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 12 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Muliwai is the meeting place where freshwater and saltwater... meet and interact. I take it in terms of composition, in terms of Mary Louise Pratt's idea of 'contact zones,' but I think muliwai is a more specific take on contact zones in Hawaiʻi... It's this in between space that does have its own livelihood. It's not this empty space. It's a productive space. It has its own relationships.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 11 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: Malama ʻāina can be literally translated as to take care of the land... It's not just a throw away phrase of hospitality or... something to put on a bumper sticker. Malama ʻāina really asks you who you are in relationship to this land because you cannot care for this land properly or respectfully if you don't acknowledge who you are to this land and how you can take care of it.; [ʻĀina cannot simply be translated to 'land'] because Kānaka Maoli have a genealogical relationship to the land. We come from the land. The land is our kin, so when you think of it as just land, or landscapes... the spiritual connection [is lost]... [We have a] deep commitment to really taking care of the land as we would [our elders].Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 10 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: A basic interpretation [of kuleana] can be responsibility.... Kuleana doesn't change, but to be aware of your relation to the place, the situation, [and] the people around you... It's a vigilance that needs to happen everyday... which is why place-based work needs to happen on a regular basis because relationships change because place changes. We change. When you pay... more nuance to place, you become a better person for it.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 9 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: One of my roles as an instructor is to really emphasize relationships... It's this... relationship between you, your story, and your audience and the aftermath of that, your community of readers. It is my responsibility to take my ʻāina wherever I go and to do it well and respectfully. I really can't imagine not bringing this ʻāina into my work. I look forward to teaching an aloha ʻāina literature course in the future, [also a] gender and resistance [course], which will certainly look at land in the Pacific. Place-based work outside of Hawaiʻi is important because place is part of any relationship you're in. How you move within a place and how a place moves within you is very important.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 8 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I have not yet taught a course other than this one and English 100 [Foundations in Written Communication].Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 7 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: This is my first non-English 100 course, and every single English 100 course that I have taught has been place-based. I can't imagine not taking the opportunity to frame an English 100 course, an introduction to writing at a university level and not taking an opportunity to not place it in Hawaiʻi. I can't imagine doing it, and I don't think I ever will.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 6 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The trust needed to share poetry, especially the kind of poetry that is produced when you think about home or belonging, or not belonging, how you belong, can be very very terrifying.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 5 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The poetry is [a] very nice meeting place... where continental students and local students, who are coming at these ideas of taking care of place... they're coming at it from very different epistemic frameworks, different senses of responsibility. Poetry is this... beautiful meeting place where they can educate each other.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 4 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: [The main goal of the class was to get students] thinking about why you are writing this kind of poem for this kind of space and this kind of theme.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 3 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The mapping project is premised on this idea of home. You had to brainstorm a home space, and home can mean a diverse range of things...[Students] had to choose a home space, and thinking about place and space, they had to create five poems... in a mapped space... [They had to create an introduction for readers that included] how to think about poetry and place. The way we move through space is very interesting and the way we talk about how we move. I don't think too many people are cognisant of the way... of the effects of the way they move in this place.. affect way more than just the self. Framing movement and permission through place that you're accustomed to through a reader/writer relationship is very useful.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 2 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: I have been always written about place. One of my current projects is looking at a city that was called 'The Dream City' on Maui. That made me think about how I think about home. All the conversations about who belongs here and why, and how you belong. It's not 'either or.' I think the better question is how you belong here. There are so many poets pushing the idea of belonging and home especially. My students had such diverse experiences of what home is. Home is connected to family, connected to violence and to love. The way that place became alive in my class, I feel so privileged to be able to help guide these students. I wanted to put this course together because thinking about that relationship between poetry and place has changed my life.Item type: Item , Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in English, clip 1 of 12(2015) Place-based WAC/WID Hui; Revilla, Noʻukahauʻoli; Henry, JimBrief excerpt from interview: The entire course is a place-based approach. We are situated in Hawaiʻi and as a Kanaka Maoli, a person in the university, as a poet, as someone who cares very much for this ʻāina, it is important for me to teach any way I can to center it here, in Hawaiʻi. Although we do draw on works [by poets] who are more interested in the continent, particularly the West Coast, their place poetics, their poetics of place, are so fierce and interrogate these ideas of belonging and histories and these layers of histories, that I think go really beautifully with our ideas of aloha ʻāina and belonging and home. In Hawaiʻi we have such fraught tensions between belonging, especially between indigeneity, local, settler... At that level, students come with that creative frame… and we can enter these more political conversations through creative writing… That relationship makes the discussion more positive.