I can hardly believe it’s been a couple weeks since I’ve
posted and a month since a more formal post on my dissertation. Since submitting my dissertation for
publication on May 3, so much has occurred. Where do I begin?
Well,
first, I’ve called the last few weeks since commencement as “Season of
Celebration.” Commencement weekend itself
was its own transformation. A batek, a big party at Jill’s in Berkeley, and commencement
itself. Celebratory yes but also ceremonial
intense.
Getting away
to Santa Cruz – Brighton State Beach – was a relaxing response to the prep and parties
as was some time with family and on the central coast with my love. Celebration season finished back down in Los Angeles
for my final party at my family home in Whittier. Just so great! Altogether, my parties brought so
many precious loved ones together, and I’m grateful for the good folk who have been
a part of my educational journey.
Second, I’m proud to share that I am the “owner” of a
website: cristinagolondrina.com. For now, it really goes back to this blog at
blogspot; however, I have high hopes for it to be a place to showcase my
writing and artwork. As I look for
teaching and organizing work in the Autumn, I’m establishing myself as an
independent writer-artist.
In part
this is because my summer has developed into quite the artist-writer season. Just this month includes my artwork in exhibits
in L.A. and Berkeley, Filipina-Indigenous weekly dancing, and VONA’s creative writing
workshop too!
Indeed, the
two projects taking the most energy right now are: 1. Prepping my blog
formatted in such a way that I can submit it as a manuscript to work on at VONA
workshop. And 2. Revising and submitting
my resume/cv out into the world with my sister network.
CRISTINA ROSE SMITH, PhD
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND:
PhD,
Women’s Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral
Studies. Proposed Dissertation: “A
Labyrinthine Altar to Integrative Solidarity: A Mestiza (Xicana, Filipina, and
Euroamerican) Approach to Multiethnic Creative Texts.” 2014.
MA,
English Literature, California State University, Long Beach. Emphasis: Women’s Literature. Thesis: “The Female Literary Tradition: Surrogate Mother-teachers in Mary
Wollstonecraft's "Original Stories" and "Maria" and George
Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" and "Romola.” 2008.
BA,
English Writing, Biola University, La Mirada, California. Concentration: Classical Literature.
2002.
Academic
Interests in Teaching and Research: Transformational
Multiculturalism, Gender, Race, Multiethnic Pedagogy, Women’s Writing,
Multiethnic Studies, Mestiza Consciousness
and Gloria E. Anzaldua, Post-colonial Studies, Indigenization, Feminist/Womanist
Studies, Decolonization, Multiethnic and Multicultural Literature, Ecofeminist,
EcoMestiza Thought, Pedagogies of the
Sacred
PUBLICATIONS
“Tita Tells
Me,” Framing Our Stories: An Anthology of
Inter-generational Writings. The
Alvarado Project Press. San Francisco. Expected release date: end August, 2014
“Herstory of
Creation,” Ofrendas
of the Flesh. Mujeres de Maiz Press, Los Angeles.
2014.
“Dearest Lola
Yolanda,” Verses
Typhoon Yolanda: A Storm of Filipino Poets. Meritage
Press, San Francisco. 2014.
"La
Golondrina Ibon." Baybayin.
Kabuay Press. San Francisco. 2013.
PAPER
PRESENTATIONS
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Puerto
Rico. Paper Title: "Mestiza
Daughters in Conversation: Spiritual-Feminist Examination of Mestiza Identity.”
November 2014.
MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social)
Summer Institute, Northern New Mexico College.
Paper Title: “Embodied Mapping: A Mestiza (Xicana, Filipina, and Euroamerican) Approach to Home.”
July 2014.
Gender and Women’s Studies Section, Western Social
Science Conference (WSSA), Albuquerque, NM.
Paper Title: “Mestiza Xicanas and Mestiza Filipinas: Borderland
and Diasporic Literary Mestizaje.” April 2014.
The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
(ASWM), San Antonio, TX. Paper Title: Finding Solidarity in Mutiethnic
Creative Writing.” March 2014.
American Literature
Association (ALA) Symposium, "The Latina/o Literary Landscape."
San Antonio, TX. Paper Title: “Finding
Solidarity in Transformational Multiethnic and Spiritual Creative Writing:
A (Xicana, Filipina, and Euroamerican) Mestiza Approach to
Literary Critical Methodologies.” March 2014.
“El Mundo Zurdo,”
Society for Gloria Anzaldua, San Antonio, TX.
Paper Title:
“Xicana, Filipina, and Euroamerican Transformational Integration in Solidarity
in Multiethnic Creative Writing.” November 2013.
American Academy of Religion Conference/ Western Region,
Tempe AZ. Women’s Caucus. Paper Title: “Bioregionalism and
Collaboration: Allies in the Ventura County Grassroots Community.” March 2013
9th Mindanao International Studies
Society (MISS) Convention 2013, Zamboanga City, Philippines. Presentation Title: “Multiethnic
Goddesses.” February 2013.
American Academy of Religion/ National Conference,
Chicago, IL. Women of Color Scholarship,
Teaching, and Activism. Paper Title: “Sacred Ecowoman: Naming and
Reclaiming.” October 2012
American Academy of Religion Conference/ Western
Region, Whittier, CA. Goddess Studies I: The Virgin Mary Across and Beyond the
Americas: Merging Cultural Realities and
Emergent Manifestations. Paper Title:
“Embodied Restless, Mestiza- Feminist
Spirituality, and the Divine Feminine.” March 2011.
“(dis)junctions 2008: Where the Streets are
Re-named” Conference, University of California, Riverside, CA. Paper Title: “God’s Delight in Eve’s
Dancing in ‘Mazes Intricate’: Labyrinths and A(Maze)ment in Milton’s Paradise
Lost.” April 2008.
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
Humanities, Honolulu, HI. Paper Title: “Extending the Female Literary
Tradition: The Need for and Fulfillment of Surrogate Mother-Teacher Figures in
the Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot.” January 2008.
ART Exhibits
“Sacred Heart of Mango,” at "The Arrival of the 12th Poblador," The Pico
House, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Los
Angeles, May 9 - 25, 2014
"Sacred Heart of Mango Xicana-Pinay"
and "Sacred Heart and Mango with Roses and Fire," “IMPACT,” DISCLOSE and Worth Ryder Gallery, UC
Berkeley, June 7-13, 2014
