Leanne P. Day is an Assistant Professor in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. She recently was the inaugural Daniel K. Inouye postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.

Her research focuses on questions of Indigeneity, Feminism, Asian immigration, settler colonialism, and U.S. empire in Hawaiʻi through examining the aesthetics of contemporary “local” literature and cultural production.

She teaches courses on Pacific Literature, Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Indigenous Studies.