CORE FACULTY
Email:
mentors@saidi.edu.ph
Susan is currently the Founder and President of Ugat ng Kalusugan, Inc (Roots of Health), a nonprofit organization aimed at furthering Reproductive Health Education, Prenatal care, and Child nutrition in marginalized communities in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. This advocacy she balances with being a Consultant and Professor at the Palawan State University since 2000. Prior to this, she was an English Professor and Department Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University. She was also heavily engaged in teacher training through the Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching (ACELT). Tracing her roots in the Philippines, Susan came as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in 1963.
Susan completed her PhD in Philippine Studies in 1981 from the University of the Philippines (Diliman). She completed her Master of Arts in English from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) and another Master of Arts, this time in Asian Studies from the Philippine Center for Asian Studies. She went to Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) for her undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Susan has strong background in the fluent and precise use of the English language which makes her a good ‘vocie’ when engaged in mentoring and supervising writing tasks.
Her interests are in Afro-Asian Literature, Creative Writing, Peace Studies, Women Studies, and Teaching Training.
Her recent stint as Writer and Editor includes the following:
The Lady and the Last Frontier (Palawan State University) 2007
Taipan (Lucio Tan) 2007
A Man of Faith and Intuition (Brother Martin of Assumption University, Bangkok). 2010
Editor: Microfinance Management: Cases on Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Business Processes, vol. 1. 2010
Editor, University Journal, Palawan State University, 4 issues from 2008 to 2010. Contributer to two issues.
Co-author, Angelica’s Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel. Anvil, 2010.
Some of her recent major publications include:
Asian Literature: An Historical Approach, Phoenix Press, 1972 (?)
The Way of Truth: A Text in Nonviolence
Office of Research and Publications, Ateneo de Manila
Carlos Bulosan and His Poetry: A Biography and Anthology
Ateneo University Press and University of Washington Press, 1985
Growing into Asia and other Essays
University of the Philippines Press, 2000
Creative Juices: Works of the Ateneo Faculty (Ed.)
Diwa Scholastic Press, 2001. |