Stephanie Nohelani Teves is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she teaches courses on Indigenous feminisms and queer theory. Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Drama Review and the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in 2017. Teves is author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance (2018) and co-editor of Native Studies Keywords (2015). Most recently Teves is editor of The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ, an oral history project with Hawaiian elders. She lives with her ʻohana in Honouliuli, Oʻahu.
