Caroline Sy Hau (born 30 August 1969) is a
Chinese-Filipino
Chinese Filipinos (sometimes referred as Filipino Chinese or Chinoy/Tsinoy in the Philippines) are Filipinos of Chinese descent with ancestry mainly from Fujian, but are typically born and raised in the Philippines. Chinese Filipinos are one ...
author and academic known for her work on Filipino culture and literature and for her books ''The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation and Region In and Beyond the Philippines'' and ''Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946—1980''.
Hau received her B.A. in English from the
University of the Philippines Diliman
The University of the Philippines Diliman (also called UPD; ), also referred to as UP Diliman, is a State university and college (Philippines), public, coeducational, Research university, research university located in Diliman, Quezon City, Ph ...
and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
English Language and Literature from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
. She currently serves as Professor of Southeast Asian literature at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies in
Kyoto University
, or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan.
The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...
.
Hau co-writes a blog with fellow writer Trixie Alano Reguyal titled ''ikangablog.''
Published works
* ''Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946—1980.'' Ateneo de Manila University Press. (2000).
* ''On the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writings from the Margins'', ''1981—2004.'' Ateneo de Manila University Press. (2004).
* ''The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation and Region In and Beyond the Philippines.'' Ateneo de Manila University Press. (2014).
* ''Recuerdos de Patay and Other Stories.'' University of the Philippines Press. (2015).
* ''Elite: An Anthology.'' (Ed. with Katrina Tuvera and Isabelita O. Reyes) Anvil Publishing. (2016).
* ''Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture.'' Ateneo de Manila University Press. (2017).
* ''Tiempo Muerto: A Novel.'' Ateneo de Manila University Press. (2019).
See also
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Benedict Anderson
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book ''Imagined Communities'', which e ...
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Resil Mojares
Resil Buagas Mojares (born September 4, 1943) is a Filipino historian and critic of Philippine literature best known as for his books on Philippine history. He is acclaimed by various writers and critics as the ''Visayan Titan of Letters'', due ...
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Leloy Claudio
Lisandro Elias "Leloy" Estrada Claudio (born September 23, 1984) is a Filipino academic, author, and political commentator. He is currently an assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is kno ...
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Reynaldo Ileto
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Xiao Chua
Michael Charleston "Xiao" Briones Chua ( zh, t=曾華紹, p=Zēng Huáshào; born January 19, 1984) is a Filipino historian, academic, and television personality.
He is best known for his academic works on Philippine history and his numerou ...
References
Cornell University alumni
Filipino women academics
Filipino people of Chinese descent
Academic staff of Kyoto University
University of the Philippines Diliman alumni
Academic staff of the University of the Philippines Diliman
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