Denise
Cruz
Professor
English and Comparative Literature
Denise Cruz is the recipient of the 2021 Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. She is a scholar of gender and sexuality, with special interests in the Philippines and Asian American literature. Her work covers a range of subjects, from connections between the rise of English literature and women’s suffrage in Manila, to the vibrant world of Filipino high fashion, to the strategies Asian American authors use to represent regional, national, and transnational communities.
Undergraduate Courses Taught
- Intro to Asian American Lit & Culture
- Literature and Intersectional Feminism
Publications
- Transpacific Femininities: the Making of the Modern Filipina
- Published essays in American Literature, American Quarterly, American Literary History, PMLA, Journal of Asian American Studies, Modern Fiction Studies and several edited collections