Writing

The following are samples of Kris Coffield’s writing.

Editorial

“Close tax loopholes to feed state budget” in Honolulu Star-Advertiser (April 3, 2024)

“A Message About the Maui Fires” for Humanity In Action (August 15, 2023)

“Media literacy is essential to democracy” in Honolulu Star-Advertiser (April 16, 2023)

“Ending gender violence should be a pandemic priority” in Honolulu Star-Advertiser (December 3, 2020)

“Invest in education to end sex trafficking” in Honolulu Star-Advertiser (October 25, 2018)

Poetry

“Homeland PTSD,” poem in Streetcake, Issue 33 (January, 2014)

“Storm break,” haiku in Chrysanthemum, Issue 14 (October, 2013)

Scholarly Articles

“Politicizing the Spectacle” in In Media Res, “Spectacles of Protest” theme week (May, 2017)

“Naked Games: Procedural Misogyny in Videogame Culture,” in In Media Res, “Just Add Nudity” theme week (October, 2014)

“Terror, Trauma, and the Thing at Ground Zero,” in Evental Aesthetics, Volume 1, Number 3 (September, 2012)

“Humanities in Hawaiʻi, From Statehood to the Present,” in Inquire Journal of Comparative Literature, Volume 2, Number 2 (September, 2012)

Reviews

Politics of the Event: Time, Movement, Becoming by Tom Lundborg, in Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Volume 10 (Fall, 2013)

Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva, in World History Connected, Volume 8, Number 3 (October, 2011)