Denise Cruz (Email; phone: 812-855-7967)
Assistant Professor, English and American Studies
Ph.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Filipina/o literature, Asian/American literature, Ethnic American literature, late 19 th to 20 th century American literature, U.S. imperialism, gender and sexuality studies

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Articles:
“Reconsidering McTeague’s ‘Mark’ and ‘Mac’: The intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial Masculinities, and Desire Between Men.” American Literature 78.3(September 2006): 487-517.

Edited Works:
“A Sheaf of Early Filipino and Filipina Writers.” The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 6 th. edition. Forthcoming.

Presentations:
“Revising the Nationalist Mother: Transpacific Femininity and Yay Marking, Filipina American Guerilla.” Theorizing the Transpacific: The Cross-cultural roots of Chicana and Filipina Identities. Annual American Studies Association Meeting. Philadelphia. Oct. 2007.

“Imagining the Transpacific Filipina in Narrations of Philippine-U.S. Contact” [invited]. Center for the Study of Women Graduate Student Lecture. University of California, Los Angeles. 29 Nov. 2006.

“Revising the Bataan Brotherhood: Filipina World War II Fiction.” Gestural Crossings: Filipina/o Historical and Cultural Critiques of Filipino-American Relations. Annual Association of Asian American Studies Association Meeting. Hyatt Hotel Buckhead, Atlanta. Mar. 2006.

“Illusions Peculiar: Exilic Imaginings of the Filipina in selections from Bienvenido Santos’s You Lovely People.” [Invited] Asian American M112A: Asian American Literature to 1980. University of California, Los Angeles, 9 Feb. 2005.

“Filipino Rebel[s]: Filipino Literature and Modes of Resistance.” The Filipino Imaginary in the Wake of U.S. Imperialism. Annual American Studies Association Meeting. Hyatt Hotel, Atlanta. Nov. 2004.

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 2006-2007
UCLA International Institute Associate Global Fellow, 2006-2007
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Assistant, 2006
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 2003-2006
Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, Summer, 2005
UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, 2004-2005
Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, Summer, 2004
UCLA English Department Teaching Excellence Award, 2003
UCLA Graduate Student Summer Research Mentorship, June 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, 1997