Melinda Luisa de Jesús
Contact details
mldj500@york.ac.uk
Biography
Melinda Luisa de Jesús is Chair of Diversity Studies, and Associate Professor of Diversity Studies and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. She writes and teaches about Filipino/American cultural production, youth and popular culture, feminist/gender studies, and comparative American ethnic studies. She edited Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, the first anthology of Filipina/American feminisms (Routledge 2005). Her writing has appeared in Approaches to Teaching Multicultural Comics; Ethnic Literary Traditions in Children’s Literature; Challenging Homophobia; Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; Radical Teacher; The Journal of Asian American Studies; and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century American Girls’ Culture. She is a mezzo-soprano, a mom, an Aquarian, and a big Hello Kitty fan. Elliot Cowan is her Mr. Darcy.
During her Fulbright stint Melinda will teach a graduate course entitled “Girl Culture, or Intro to Girls' Studies” and will convene a conference on Girls' Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York.