The Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professorship Annual Lecture: "From Pinay Power to Peminology: Centering Peminist Theory," by Professor Melinda de Jesus, followed by Wine & Cheese

The Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professorship Annual Lecture, followed by Wine & Cheese

Professor Melinda de Jesus

“From Pinay Power to Peminology: Centering Peminist Theory”

Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Associate Professor and former chair of Diversity Studies at California College of the Arts, is the Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professor for 2018-19 at IGSF. She writes and teaches about girl culture, monsters, Asian American children literature and Filipina/o American cultural production. She is also a poet, musician, and visual artist. She edited the first anthology of peminist (Filipina/American feminist) theory, Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory (Routledge 2005). Her first collection of poetry, peminology, was published by Paloma Press in Spring 2018.