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Joi Barrios-LeBlanc
Joi Barrios teaches Filipino and Philippine literature at the University of California, Berkeley after serving as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Arts and Let...view moreJoi Barrios teaches Filipino and Philippine literature at the University of California, Berkeley after serving as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters (UP). Barrios has a PhD in Filipino (Philippine literature) from UP and has also taught as visiting faculty at University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; and the Osaka University of Foreign Studies. She is the author of several books, among them Tagalog for Beginners (Tuttle, 2011) and Intermediate Tagalog (Tuttle, 2015), and has coedited the Concise Tagalog Dictionary: Tagalog-English English Tagalog (with Nenita Pambid Domingo and Romulo Baquiran Jr.; Tuttle, 2017). Additionally, she has published Mula sa mga Pakpak ng Entablado: Pagyapak at Paglipad ng Kababaihang Mandudula (From the Theater Wings: Grounding and Flight of Women Playwrights; University of the Philippines Press, 2005), four poetry books, a book of novelettes, and a book of plays. In addition to several national writing awards, she has won three lifetime achievement awards: Weaver of History Award, given to one hundred women for contributions to Philippine society in the twentieth century by the National Centennial Commission, 1998; the TOWNS (Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service) Award, 2004; and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (National Balagtas Lifetime Achievement Award) for Poetry in Filipino, 2016.view less
Books by Joi Barrios-LeBlanc
Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation