Caroline Hau

Caroline Hau
Personal details
Born
Caroline Sy Hau

(1969-08-30) August 30, 1969 (age 55)
Alma materUniversity of the Philippines (BA)
Cornell University (MA & Ph.D)

Caroline Sy Hau (born 30 August 1969) is a Chinese-Filipino author[1] and academic[2] 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[3] and Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946—1980.[4]

Hau received her B.A. in English from the University of the Philippines Diliman and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Cornell University. She currently serves as Professor of Southeast Asian literature at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies in Kyoto University.[5]

Hau co-writes a blog with fellow writer Trixie Alano Reguyal titled ikangablog.[6]

  1. ^ Tan, Charles (8 August 2016). "A Retrospective on Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction". mithilareview.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  2. ^ "Public Lecture by Dr. Caroline S. Hau on "The Woman Who Had Two Navels: Multiple Colonialism and Its Philippine Legacies" | Institute of Philippine Culture". www.ipc-ateneo.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  3. ^ Chua, Xiao (2016-02-08). "Looking Down on Each Other: The Filipinos and the Chinese, a History of Racism". IT'S XIAOTIME!. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  4. ^ Ocampo, Ambeth R. (5 August 2015). "Necessary fictions". opinion.inquirer.net. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  5. ^ "About Staff: HAU, Caroline Sy". Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  6. ^ "What's in a (Blog) Name?". ikangablog. 2015-10-19. Retrieved 2020-01-15.