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April 2, 2004 – California Indian Gaming in the 21st Century: Is Cultural Integrity at Stake?

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Friday, April 2 / 2 PM / Oakes Mural Room


What have tribes gained and lost in the decision to open casinos on Native land? Do they risk cultural integrity by engaging in gaming? Why do some tribes choose not to game? What is a tribal-state compact, and how does the political climate affect the compact-making process? This panel will explore the effect of high-stakes gaming on Native culture, economics, enrollment, and identity.


PANELISTS :

JOELY DE LA TORRE, of Pechanga Luiseno descent, is professor and former chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University. The first member of her family to complete high school, Dr. De La Torre serves as a role model for Native youth and encourages self-determination through knowledge and education. She was the first fellowship recipient of the American Political Science Association Native Fellows Program.

NICOLE MYERS LIM, a member of the Pinoleville Indian community, received her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law. She has worked for the National Indian Justice Center and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center for the past five years. She has taught undergraduate courses on U.S. law and American Indians at San Francisco State University, and teaches federal Indian law at Sacramento State University. Ms. Lim serves as a trainer for NIJC’s regional and on-site training programs on fetal alcohol syndrome, and is currently developing a fetal alcohol awareness curriculum for tribes in California and the northwest.

RAQUELLE MYERS, a member of the Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians, received her J.D. from the University of Utah. She serves as Staff Attorney for the National Indian Justice Center and Chief Judge/Administrator for the Intertribal Court of California, a court of limited jurisdiction currently being developed in Northern California. A member of the California Judicial Council’s Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias and the CDSS Tribal Government Advisory Committee, she was recently appointed to the National Taskforce on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect. She teaches undergraduate courses on federal Indian law, California Indian history, and tribal government at UC Berkeley and Sonoma State University.

Sponsored by the Native Research Cluster. Co-sponsored by the GSA, Cowell College, Merrill College, and the Department of Women’s Studies

February 25, 2004 – Margaret Cohen: "The Craft of the Sea"

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Wednesday, February 25 / 4:30PM / Oakes Mural Room


Margaret Cohen is Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University, having come from New York University in 2003. She is a scholar of critical theory and of the novel, whose books include Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (California, 1993) and the prizewinning The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton, 1999), as well as several edited volumes. Her talk is from her current book project, The Romance of the Sea, which is a study of how the history and representation of open ocean travel informed the development of the modern novel. About her talk, she writes,

Across the range of diverse genres (narratives of discovery, exploration and warfare, manuals of practical seamanship, shipwreck narratives, imaginary voyage narratives, novels), writing about seamanship constitutes one of the most sustained reflections in the Western tradition on the labor process, distilling a kind of hands-on practical reason that differs markedly from the contemplative reason of philosophers or the objective knowledge of scientists, more like the metis of Odysseus, or what Conrad eloquently called “craft.”…What emerges then across writings aboutopen ocean sea-faring, is a kind of romance of the real, a romance with labor and practice. Romantic poets will devise figures of the sublime to represent the extravagant aspects of this frontier zone, though critics often fail to notice how a delineation of the sublime is inseparable from questions of labor in Romanticism, ignoring the representation of work in a move akin to the erasures of Orientalism.

Co-sponsored by the Literature Department

Winter 2004 Colloquium Series

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Colloquium Series


In winter 2004, the Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies. 

 

ScheduleALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN THE OAKES MURAL ROOMJanuary 14
Donna Haraway
(History of Consciousness, UCSC)
Companion Species & Other Messmates: Canine Insight on Acquiring Genomes in Technoculture

January 21
Manuela Ribeiro Sanches
(Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)
Where is the Post-Colonial?: In-Betweenness, Identity and “Lusophonia” in Trans/National Contexts

January 28
Megan Thomas
(Politics, UCSC)
Authority, Authenticity, and the Native Voice: Ethnographies of and by Filipinos in the Late 19th Century

February 4
Deborah Whaley
(Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC)
Disciplining Women, Respectable Pledges, and the Meaning of a “Soror”: Reconstituting the Cultural Politics of Violence in a Predominantly Black Sorority

February 11
Peter Limbrick
(Film and Digital Media, UCSC)
Cinema’s Imperial Mode: British Empire Films and their Transnational Contexts

February 18
Scott Barclay
(Politics, UCSC)
Cause Lawyers as Legal Innovators for the State: The Case of Civil Unions in Vermont and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel

February 25
Earl Jackson
(Literature, UCSC)
Is Gone Better? Existence as Practice and Theory in Korean Cinema

March 3
Anna Tsing
(Anthropology, UCSC)
Engaged Universals

 

Participants

 

DONNA HARAWAY’s most recent book is The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Prickly Paradigm, 2003). Of her talk she writes, “The root meaning of ‘companion’ in companion species is ‘com panis’ or ‘with bread.’ I am interested in messmates; i.e., in those who eat together—or eat each other—in evolutionary, social, and intimate personal history. Thinking well about messmates turns out to require a baroque array of temporalities and spatialities. The current landscape in cultural studies is cluttered with descriptions of entanglements of bodies, meanings, monies, histories, agencies, and much else. I want to further complicate the knot by tying in some threads from human-dog relatings. I am, in short, interested in those who ‘partake of each other’ in species-making ways. Derrida will make a cameo appearance, followed by a restorative cast of middle-aged women who breed dogs and know rather more about animals.”

MANUELA RIBEIRO SANCHES is Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Lisbon, and a Resident Scholar at the Center for Cultural Studies. She writes, “Portugal has defined its national identity through its colonial and imperial histories, thus making of its post-colonial condition a contradictory question that unites in a most obvious way the rupture or the continuities that link the country to its former colonies. How is this ‘in-betweenness’ to be interpreted? What are the ‘origins’ of discourses on Portuguese hybridity? How is the post-colonial understood in contemporary Portugal, and how does this understanding influence the reception of postcolonial studies in ‘Lusophone’ contexts? How can post-colonial studies contribute to a decentering of these approaches and understandings?”

MEGAN THOMAS is Assistant Professor of Politics. Her talk draws on her book project, Orientalist Enlightenment: The Emergence of Nationalist Thought in the Philippines, 1880-1898, examining texts written by educated, creolized natives of the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish colonial rule at the end of the 19th century. She notes, “Those authors, some of whom were central figures in the nationalist movement, wrote folkloristic and ethnographic accounts of different ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines. They self-consciously adopted the European sciences of folklore and ethnography and yet they claim authority as experts precisely because of their status as natives, even when writing about a group of which they were not a member. These texts call colonial authority into question and prefigure later debates about the theory and practice of ethnographic fieldwork.”

DEBORAH WHALEY, Resident Scholar at the Center for Cultural Studies, has taught at the University of Kansas and at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Whaley is author of “To Capture a Vision Fair: Margaret Walker and the Predicament of the African American Female Intellectual,” in Maryemma Graham (ed.), Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
(Georgia, 2001) and “The Neo-Soul Vibe and the Postmodern Aesthetic: Black Popular Music and Culture for the Soul Babies of History,” American Studies (Fall 2002). Her talk “will explore the way a historically Black sorority creates and struggles to make meaning of the use of violence as a rite of passage. Black sorority women use ethnic-specific rites to redistribute cultural flows of power within their subculture and in so doing, they produce new registers for understanding the complex social function of violence and the cultural politics of Black feminine identities.”

PETER LIMBRICK is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media. His book project, On Location: Cinema, Empire, and Colonial Space, traces the production and circulation of films of and about empire and colonialism. It is, he writes, “particularly concerned with the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality are conceived and maintained through the representations of colonial and postcolonial spaces and geographies. The project tangles with established connections between cinema, nation, and genre to instead propose an imperial cinematic mode that can be traced through widely dispersed historical moments and contexts.”

SCOTT BARCLAY, Visiting Associate Professor in the Legal Studies Program, is the author of An Appealing Act: Why People Appeal in Civil Cases(Northwestern, 1999) and co-author of “The States and Differing Impetus for Divergent Paths on Gay Rights, 1990-2001,” Policy Studies Journal 31 (2003). His current research considers the legal, social, and political struggle over same-sex marriage. He writes, “Cause lawyers—lawyers who systematically pursue a cause on behalf of a socially marginalized group—develop new legal rights as a means to alleviate the targeting of this oppressive authority against a particularly marginalized social group. Instead of operating only from an oppositional position…some cause lawyers enter into a symbiotic relationship with selected parts of the state. … In this symbiotic relationship, the law becomes the shared language that allows these actors with divergent goals temporarily to occupy a common space.”

EARL JACKSON, Associate Professor of Literature, in Spring 2004 will be Visiting Professor of Cinema Studies at Korean National University of the Arts. He is the author of Strategies of Deviance: Essays in Gay Male Representational Agency(Indiana, 1995) and “Polylogic Perversity,” GLQ 9.4 (Winter 2003). About this talk he writes, “Given Korea�s turbulent modern history, it is not surprising that a considerable number of Korean films raise questions concerning the meaning of human life in general and specific individual lives. It is important to read these questions not thematically but cinematically. Obaltan[Aimless Bullet, 1960] is a fictional drama and considered a masterpiece of the Korean golden age. Nappeun Yonghwa[Bad Movie, 1997] is an experimental quasi-documentary featuring runaway or abandoned youth and homeless adults. Each foregrounds the tensions between the represented subject and the system of representation and illuminates the political stakes therein.” In conjunction with this talk, Obaltan will be shown on Tuesday, February 24th at 7 PM in Social Sciences I, Room 159. 

ANNA TSING is author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Princeton, 1993) and co-editor of Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia (Duke, 2003). Her talk is drawn from her forthcoming book Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connections, of which she writes, “Environmental activists, illegal loggers, transnational mining corporations, nature hikers, crony capitalists, and village elders vie for attention in this book, in which Indonesian rainforest politics provides the site for an exploration of the contingencies of global connection. Here global capitalism and utopian social mobilizations make appearances through the grip of cultural encounter, and liberal universals are realized in the sticky materiality of ‘friction.’”

January 23, 2004 – Robert Pogue Harrison: Seminar on "The Dominion of the Dead"

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Friday, January 23 / 12PM – 2PM / Oakes Mural Room


Seminar Reading: The Dominion of the Dead, pp. 1-36, 142-159 (first, second, and last chapters). The seminar reading is optional but strongly encouraged. Please pick up readings at the Center for Cultural Studies, or contact Stephanie Casher (scasher@ucsc.edu) one week in advance for campus mailing of the reading. Copies of the book will also be available for purchase at the Literary Guillotine.


Robert Pogue Harrison is Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. He has published widely on Italian literature. His previous book, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (Chicago, 1992) was a profound and stylistically rich exploration of the role of forests in the Western literary and philosophical imagination. In The Dominion of the Dead (Chicago, 2003), Harrison turns to death, the dead, burial, and the material and psychic relations that the living maintain with the dead. Drawing on the work of Vico, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and a diverse range of poets and thinkers, Harrison makes a convincing argument for the primacy of death within multiple spheres of human existence. The book touches on such topics as burial and its relation to place and possession of place, the roots of architecture in tombs, and grief and the origin of language.

The dead, who in effect set up their dominion in human guilt, do not only need our help to sustain their afterlives, they also provide us with help from beyond the grave. The contract between the living and the dead has traditionally been one of mutual indebtedness, for reasons that Vico probes and that I, in his wake, have sought to clarify. The dead depend on the living to preserve their authority, heed their concerns, and keep them going in their afterlives. In return, they help us to know ourselves, give form to our lives, organize our social relations, and restrain our destructive impulses. —from The Dominion of the Dead

January 16, 2004 – Georgine Clarsen: "Movement in a Minor Register: Early Women Motorists and the Discourse Of Speed"

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Friday, January 16 / 12PM / Oakes Mural Room


Georgine Clarsen is Lecturer at the School of History and Politics, Faculty of Art, University of Wollongong, Australia, and Research Fellow at the Center for Cultural Studies during Winter 2004. Trained as a historian, she also received a Certificate in Automotive Engineering from Sydney Technical College. Her areas of interest include history of technology, tourism and travel, twentieth-century modernity, women and war, feminist historiography, history of the body, and a history of physical performance in Australia. She has published widely in the history of women and motoring in Australia and elsewhere. Her talk is from a book in progress entitled Auto-Erotic: Early Women Motorists’ Love of Cars (forthcoming from Johns Hopkins).

December 2, 2003 – Clayton Eshleman: "Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld"

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Tuesday, December 2 / 4:30 PM / Stevenson 150

A program of one and a half hours based on the just-published book, Juniper Fuse (Wesleyan), which presents the fruits of a 25-year poetic investigation of the origins of image-making (and, by implication, the roots of poetry) via the Ice Age decorated caves of southwestern France. Eliot Weinberger writes of Juniper Fuse:

“The invention of the historical other has become almost programmatic in twentieth-century American poetry; for Pound, ancient China; for H.D., classical Greece; for Olson, Mesopotamia; for Snyder, the Neolithic. Eshleman has pushed the historical back about as far as it can go: to the Upper Paleolithic, and the earliest surviving images made by humans. As a result of his literal and imaginative explorations of the painted and gouged caves, Eshleman has constructed a myth, perhaps the first compelling post-Darwinian myth: that the Paleolithic represents the “crisis” of the human “separating out” of the animal, the original birth and original fall of man. From that moment, human history spins out: from the repression of the animal within to the current extinction of the animals without: the inversion from matriarchy to patriarchy, and the denial of the feminine; the transformation of the fecund underworld into the Hell of suffering; and the rising of Hell, in the twentieth century, to the surface of the earth: Dachau, Hiroshima. The poet’s journey is an archetypal scenario of descent and rebirth: he has traveled to the origin of humanness to reach the millennium, end and beginning.”

Clayton Eshleman, a seminal figure in American poetry, has published 13 collections of poetry with Black Sparrow Press, and several collections of essays, most recently Companion Spider (Wesleyan), with an introduction by Adrienne Rich. He is also the primary American translator of Cesar Vallejo, Aime´ Ce´saire, Antonin Artaud, and Michel Deguy. He founded and edited two pioneering literary journals, Caterpillar and Sulfur. He has received the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several prestigious awards for translation. Eshleman is currently a professor in the English Department at Eastern Michigan University.

Co-sponsored by the IHR, the Living Writers Research Unit, and the department of Anthropology

November 13, 2003 – Film Screening: The Men in the Tree

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Documentary Film, 2002 / 98 min.

Thursday, November 13 / 5:30 PM / Cowell Conference Room

A SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR LALIT VACHANI
Moderator: Radhika Mongia (Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz)

Vachani’s 1993 film, The Boy in the Branch, explored the indoctrination of four young Hindu boys in a branch of the RSS, one of the foremost Hindu fundamentalist organizations in India. On December 6, 1992 (as the film was nearing completion) members of the RSS and its affiliates destroyed the Babri mosque at Ayodhya. Where were the four boys when the mosque was razed to the ground? What did they think about the deaths of at least 1500 people (mostly Muslim) in the riots that followed the demolition? What happened to them between 1992 and 2000, as the RSS and Hindu nationalism had moved from the margins to the center of Indian politics? Vachani’s new film, The Men in the Tree, returns to the subjects of his previous film, eight years later, to document the setbacks and chilling triumphs of Hindu nationalism. The film raises crucial questions about Hindu fundamentalism, “long-distance nationalism,” and international funding sources (e.g., Silicon Valley) for the Hindu Right, and the complex intersections of religion, culture, and ideology.


Sponsored by the Religion and Culture Research Cluster 

November 6, 2003 – Norman Klein: "Mapping the Unfindable: New Narrative Strategies in the Age of the Electronic Baroque"

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Thursday, November 6 / 4PM / Cowell Conference Room


Norman Klein—novelist, cultural critic, curator, and faculty member at California Institute for the Arts—has written on digital media, architecture, film, games and gaming, and special effects. He is one of the most original and distinctive interpreters of the emergent cultural and technological forms characteristic of what he terms “horizontal culture.” His books include Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon (Verso, 1996), The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (Verso, 1997), and the book/DVD-ROM Bleeding Through—Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 (Cantz, 2003). His most recent book, The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects, is forthcoming from The New Press in 2004. Klein writes,

“As in our era, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century illusion serviced a global culture and even relied on ‘software’ of a kind: solid geometry for architecture, optics, sculpture, painting, and theater. As if from a cryonic thaw, these forms have reemerged very clearly in recent decades. And to manage all this friendly disaster, modern special effects have evolved a unique grammar as precise as the rules of film, theater, and music.” 

His talk explores mapping as a model of narrative and interpretive strategy, and treats computer games, urban architecture, digital narratives, and cinema.

Fall 2003 Colloquium Series

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Colloquium Series


In fall 2003, the Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, tea, and cookies. 

 

ScheduleALL COLLOQUIA ARE IN THE OAKES MURAL ROOMOctober 1
Teresa de Lauretis
(History of Consciousness, UCSC)
“Damned and Carefully Public”: Djuna Barnes andNightwood

October 8
Alain-Marc Rieu
(Humanities, UC Santa Cruz)
Modernization Theory Today 

October 15
Lisa Rofel
(Anthropology, UCSC)
Legislating Desire: Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and Consumer Fraud in Post-Socialist China

October 22
Jeremy Prestholdt
(History, Northeastern University and Rockefeller Fellow, Fall 2003)
On Consumerism and Peripheral Visions of Globalization

October 29
L.S. Kim
(Film and Digital Media, UCSC)
Maid in Color: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television

November 5
Herman Gray
(Sociology, UCSC)
Sight and Sound: Recognition, Visibility, and Black Cultural Politics

November 12
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
(English, Cornell University and Rockefeller Fellow, 2003-04)
Gardening in the Tropics: Excavating the Roots of Island Transplantations

November 19
Rosa Linda Fregoso
(Latin American/Latino Studies, UCSC)
meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands

 

Participants

 

Teresa de Lauretis is Professor in the History of Consciousness department, and is internationally recognized for her work in semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, literature, science fiction, film, film theory, and queer and feminist theory. She is author of over a dozen books, which have appeared in many languages, including the canonical Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (Indiana, 1984). Her talk is an introduction to and a section of her current book project on Freud’s theory of the drives in relation to the body and subject formation, and the relevance of Freud’s theory for the history of the present.

Alain-Marc Rieu is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon, and is currently Visiting Professor of Humanities at UCSC. He has published widely on the philosophy of knowledge, on contemporary Europe, and on knowledge societies in Japan and elsewhere. About his talk, he writes, “the objective is to build a concept of modernization strong enough to analyze, compare and evaluate various modernization trajectories. The goal is to establish an epistemological ground to develop comparative studies of societies.”

Lisa Rofel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC. She works on issues of gender, sexuality, and modernity in China and elsewhere. She is the author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism (California, 1998). She is currently working on a manuscript about desire and globalization in contemporary China, and on a book of essays about contemporary Zionism. Her talk is about recent legal cases and legalistic debates in China and the way they construct neo-liberal subjects of desire.

Jeremy Prestholdt, Rockefeller Fellow for Fall, 2003, works in world history. He received his Ph.D. this year from Northwestern University, having done his doctoral research in East Africa, and he has recently joined the History faculty at Northeastern University. About his talk, he writes, “the project highlights the roles of seemingly peripheral people in the fashioning of global systems by considering the repercussions of African consumer desire on patterns of global integration. In its focus on how pre-colonial East African consumerism shaped global relationships from Bombay to Boston, the project excavates alternative visions of globality and develops a narrative of interrelation focused on local and social contingencies.”

L.S. Kim, Assistant Professor in Film and Digital Media at UCSC, joined the faculty in 2002. Her essays, largely in television studies, include “‘Serving’ a New Orientalism: Discursive Racial Identity in the Television Text” (forthcoming in the Journal of Film and Video), and “‘Sex and the Single Girl’ in Postfeminism: The F-word on Television” (Television and New Media, November, 2001). Her talk will be from her current book project on the cultural significance of the racialized female domestic—the maid.

Herman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UCSC, and is a prominent scholar in media and cultural studies. His books includeWatching Race: Television and the Struggle for “Blackness” (Minnesota, 1995). His talk is taken from his current book project, Cultural Moves, which examines black cultural politics of the last decade from the perspective of struggles over representation in American network television, the institutional seizure and subsequent battles over the canonization of jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the relationship between identity and new information technologies in the case of experimental music.

Elizbeth DeLoughrey, Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University, is a Rockefeller Fellow for 2003-2004. She has completed one book manuscript, Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures, and her talk is from her work in progress, “Island Transplantations: Literary Seeds of Culture.” Tracing the centuries-long history of commodity crop transfer around the world, she argues that human and plant diasporas facilitated a sense of modernity centuries before what we now term “globalization.” She further examines the literary use of plants as metaphors for diaspora and the cultivation of historically bound island identities.

Rosa Linda Fregoso is Professor of Latin American/Latino Studies at UCSC. Her books include The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film Culture (Minnesota, 1993). Her talk will be an introduction to her forthcoming book, meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (California, December 2003), a formally innovative self reflexive approach to cultural politics, blending cultural history, testimonial, memory, autobiography, film criticism, critical race studies, and transnational feminist theories. It includes discussion of the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez, John Sayles’s film Lone Star, and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os.

October 15, 2003 – Luis Francia & Angel Velasco Shaw: "Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War & the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999"

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Wednesday, October 15 / 7PM / Oakes Mural Room

Francia and Shaw will discuss their recently edited anthology, Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999 (NYU, 2002). Using the Philippine-American War as its departure point in analyzing U.S.-Philippine relations, Vestiges of War retrieves this willfully forgotten event and places it where it properly belongs: as the catalyst that led to increasing U.S. interventionism and expansionism in the Asia Pacific region. Integrating critical and visual art essays, archival and contemporary photographs, plays, and poetry, the book addresses complex Philippine and U.S. perspectives and experiences in the light of American colonialism.

Luis H. Francia is a poet, journalist, critic, and fiction writer who writes for the Village Voice and other publications. His books include The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems (Ateneo de Manila University, 1992), Memories of Overdevelopment (Anvil, 1998) and Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (Kaya, 2001) He edited Brown River, White Ocean (Rutgers, 1993), a major anthology of Philippine literature in English.

Angel Velasco Shaw is a film/video maker based in New York whose nationally and internationally screened works include Balikbayan/Return to Home, Nailed, Asian Boys, and Umbilical Cord. She has been teaching media, cultural and community studies in the Asian/ Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University since 1995.