Hunter H. Fine, Ph.D. 

Hunter H. Fine(Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies working at the intersections of critical cultural communication, rhetorical theory, Indigenous studies, and performance studies, at the University of Guam. His books include Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space (Lexington, 2018) and Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space (Lexington 2023), each draw from post-structuralist frameworks to examine physical practices as theory, advocacy, and forms of cultural identity. He is currently serving as an apprentice to traditional Indigenous Austronesian seafaring in Micronesia while writing his next book Traditional Austronesian Seafaring: A New Theory of Maritime Resistance and Advocacy. This work draws from both his experiences as a professor on Indigenous CHamoru land within a U.S. institutional and territorial context and a student of traditional seafaring while evoking his own history in California and ancestry in the Visayas, Philippines. His academic articles, book chapters, and reviews such as “Surfing and Indigeneity: He’e Nalu, Discourse, and Empire” in the book The Science and Culture of Surfing and “Austronesian Seafaring as Social Advocacy: Settler Colonialism and Decolonization in Micronesia and Oceania” in the book Unsettling Intercultural Communication: Rethinking Colonialism through Indigeneity can be found in Text and Performance Quarterly, Asian Pacific Inquiry Journal, Liminalities, Nerve Lantern, Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture, Micronesian Educator, and Communication Booknotes Quarterly.

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