Kathrine D. Ojano
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
BA in Comparative Literature
University of the Philippines, Philippines
MA in Comparative Literature
State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
PhD in English Literature
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kathrine Ojano currently teaches with the De La Salle University, Manila. She has also taught with universities in her home province, Nueva Vizcaya, for nearly ten years. In 2021, she obtained her PhD in English Literature from the National University of Singapore. She is a recipient of the 2021-2022 Maurice Baker Prize for Best PhD Thesis in English Literature in NUS. In 2012, she finished her MA in Comparative Literature as a Fulbright scholar in Binghamton University-State University of New York (SUNY). Her research interests include world literature, postcolonial theory, committed women’s writing, subaltern studies, critical realism, and postcolonial modernism. Before joining the academe, she started out as a community worker for the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), an education and research organization for grassroots women based in Kamuning, Quezon City.
Research Interest
- English Literature
- Comparative Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- World Literature
- Southeast Asian Studies
Selected Publications
- Ojano, Kathrine. “Myth, Dream, and Resistance in Ninotchka Rosca and Emmanuel Lacaba’s Fictions.” Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance, vol. 2, no. 1, 2022, pp. 19-33. https://www.dlsu.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/pdf/research/journals/akda/volume-2/1/2-myth-dream-and-resistance-in-rosca-and-lacaba.pdf
- “Unreading the Novel, or Experiencing Ninotchka Rosca’s State of War as Mythopoeia.” Kritika Kultura, vol. 0, no. 27, 2016, pp. 170-198. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/; https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/235948633.pdf