The HAVC Department is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Nicole Furtado as the newest member of our faculty. Dr. Nicole Kuʻuleinapuananiolikoʻawapuhimelemeleolani Furtado is a Kanaka Maoli writer and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the History of Art and Visual Culture department. Her research builds on the methodology of moʻolelo, or Kānaka Maoli storytelling, as a way to (re)imagine Indigenous futurities that move us beyond a “here-and-now” temporality and that which supports critical fabulations of Native relationality. Her work aims at centering how Indigenous digital arts restore kinship relations, develop land-based pedagogies that challenge the settler commercialization of land and landscapes, and emphasize the need for ethical networks of relations for how we encounter social technologies into the future. Nicole’s academic and creative writing has been published in Trans-Indigenous Science Fictions, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Beyond Mimesis: Aesthetic Experience in Uncanny Valleys, and The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Please join us in welcoming Nicole!
A Warm Welcome to Nicole Furtado, Assistant Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture
