DAN OWEN HERNANDEZ
GRADE 8
Doreen G. Fernandez
Born on 28 October 1934 to Aguinaldo
Severino Gamboa of Silay, Negros Occidental
and Alicia Lucero Gamboa of Cabanatuan,
Nueva Ecija.
She obtained her A.B., major in English and
History in 1954 from St. Scholastica’s College,
Manila; completed her M.A. in English
Literature (1956) and Ph.D. in Literature
(1976) from the Ateneo de Manila University.
She began teaching at the Ateneo de Manila
in 1972 and has chaired the departments of
Communication, English and Interdisciplinary
Studies. She was a member of the editorial
boards of Philippine Studies, Filipinas Journal
of Philippine Studies, and The Asian Theatre
Journal. She would have rendered 30 years
service in October 2002.
In 1998 she was recognized with Metrobank
Foundation’s Outstanding Teacher Award.
She has taught literature, composition,
creative as well as critical writing, and
journalism. Her research has been on cultural,
literary, theater and culinary history, on which
she has written for scholarly and popular
publications and had regularly been invited to
speak at international conferences and
symposiums.
She was twice a recipient of the Fulbright
Asian Scholar in Residence Award (1983, Ohio
University Southeast Asian Studies Summer
Institute; 1992, Michigan University Seminar
on Southeast Asian Literatures in
Translation).
A prolific writer, she authored: the “Iloilo
Zarzuela: 1903-1930” (1978); “In
Performance” (1981); “Tikim: Essays on
Philippine Food and Culture” (1994); “Face to
Face: The Craft of Interviewing” (1995);
“Palabas: Essays on Philippine Theater
History” (1996); “Fruits of the Philippines”
(1997); “Palayok: Philippine Food Through
Time, On Site, In the Pot” (2000).
With Edilberto N. Alegre, she co-authored:
“The Writer and His Milieu” (1984) and
“Writers and Their Milieu” (1987, recipient of
National Book Award); the “Lasa” series on
dining in Manila and the provinces (1989,
1990, 1992); “Sarap: Essays on Philippine
Food and Culture” (1988); and “Kinilaw: A
Philippine Cuisine of Freshness” (1991).
She did video scripts as well: “Tikim,” a video
documentary on Philippine food (1989,
Philippine Information Agency); “Panitikan”
on Philippine literature (1992, CCP) which
earned first prize, video documentary
category from the Film Academy of the
Philippines; “Dulaan” on Philippine
contemporary theater (1994, CCP).
She was a columnist of The Manila Chronicle,
Mr. & Ms. magazine, the Philippine Journal of
Education, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and
Food magazine. She has contributed
numerous articles in journals, periodicals and
books, including The Oxford Companion to
Food (1999, Oxford University Press).
She was editor and contributor to the CCP
Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (1994, Cultural
Center of the Philippines); contributor to the
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in
English (1995, Routledge), and with Resil
Mojares to “Modern Southeast Asian
Literature in Translation: A Resource for
Teaching” (1997, Arizona State University);
and editorial consultant as well as contributor
to the 10-volume “Kasaysayan: The Story of
the Filipino People” (1998, Asia Publishing Co
Ltd).