MARIA SARITA SEE
Columbia University, New York
English and Comparative Literature Department
1900 7th Street #3
Berkeley, CA 94710
510/845-2639
mss37@columbia.edu

Brief Biography:
Maria See is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. Her dissertation focuses on postcolonial identity and trauma in Filipino/American literature and art.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "'An Open Wound': Colonial Melancholia and Contemporary Filipino/American Texts," American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, October 1999
• "The Aesthetics of Colonial Melancholia and Contemporary Filipino/American Texts," Asian/Pacific/American Studies Conference, New York University, New York, March 1999
• "Trying Whiteness: Media Representations of the 1996 Okinawa Rape Trial," Society for Military History Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 1998

Public Projects:

Documentary consultant: "The Splendid Little War," video documentary on the effects of the Spanish American War in Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines; co-producers Frances Negro and Angel Shaw, 1998

Publications:

• "'An Open Wound: Colonial Melancholia and Contemporary Filipino/American Texts" Vestiges of War. Anvil Press, Manila, Philippines, forthcoming Mar. 2000.
• "Trying Whiteness: Media Representations of the 1996 Okinawa Rape Trial", Critical Mass. fall 1998.
• "Why I Hate My Cousin Pucha", Making More Waves: New Writings by Asian American Women. Beacon Press, 1997.

Recommendations:

Films

• Nailed Angel Velasco Shaw
• Bontoc Eulogy Marlon Fuentes

Books

Narratology and Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal

Maria See has been listed in the Directory of Califonia Thinkers since 01-Feb-2000 .