José Wendell Capili
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José Wendell Capili is a poet and academic from the Philippines. He earned his degrees from the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo and University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he previously served as Associate Dean for Administration and Development.
Capili is the author of A Madness of Birds (poetry, University of the Philippines Press, 1998); Bloom and Memory (essays, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2002); and Mabuhay to Beauty! (popular culture, Milflores Publishing, 2003). His works have been published in Europe, North America, East/Southeast Asia and Australia, including Literary Review, The Poet’s Voice (University of Graz), Korea Times, Korea Herald, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Manila Chronicle, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento, Diliman Review, Bulawan, Solidarity, Caracoa, Anagram, Mabuhay, Sands and Coral, Unitas, Tomas, Budhi, Philippine Studies, Love Gathers All: Philippine-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry (Singapore: Ethos Books), Flippin': Filipinos on America (New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop and Philadelphia: Temple University Press), and Westerly.
Capili is working on a research project involving Southeast Asian Diaspora Writers in Australia at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. In 2005, he was a Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore, University of Sydney; Westerly Centre, University of Western Australia; University of Melbourne; and the University of Queensland.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Poetry
A Madness of Birds, University of the Philippines Press, 1998
[edit] Essays
Bloom and Memory, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2002
[edit] Popular culture
(as editor) Mabuhay to Beauty!, Milflores Publishing, 2003
[edit] Honors and awards
- Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore, University of Sydney, University of Western Australia, University of Melbourne and University of Queensland
- Australian National University Vice Chancellor's PhD Scholarship
- Australian National University Graduate School Travel Award
- U.P. System Doctoral Studies Fellowship
- University of Malaya Cultural Centre grant
- University of Malaya Asia-Europe Institute grant
- Standard Chartered Bank and University of Hong Kong grant, 1st Hong Kong International Literary Festival
- British Council fellow, Downing College, Cambridge
- British Council fellow, 5th Philippine-British Literary Conference, University of St. La Salle-Bacolod
- Carlos P. Romulo Professorial Chair, U.P. Diliman
- U.P. President's International Publication Award
- U.P. System creative writing grant
- U.P. Diliman Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Literary Work
- Waseda University research grant, Japan
- Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature
- Korea Foundation Research Fellowship, Seoul National University
- Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary, Clare Hall, Cambridge
- Meguro UNESCO travel grant (Nagano, Japan)
- National Olympic Memorial Youth Centre (Japan) travel grant
- Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Research Scholarship, University of Tokyo
- Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Literature
- Mowelfund Film Institute and Quezon City International Short Film Festival Essay Competition
- The Humanist: A Magazine of Critical Inquiry and Social Concern (New York and Washington D.C.: American Humanist Association) North American Essay Contest
- U.P. System Outstanding Student Artist
- Writing Fellow, 18th U.P. National Writers Workshop
- Writing Fellow, 28th National Writers Workshop (Dumaguete)
[edit] External links
- panitikan.com.ph
- Flippin': Filipinos on America
- Temple University Press
- Telling Pacific Lives
- Books on Japan
- Guess Who's Coming to Coffee?
- University of the Philippines System
- UP Forum Online
- UP Online Newsletter
- UPdate Diliman May-June 2002
- UPdate Diliman Nov.-Dec. 2003
- U.P. Institute of Creative Writing
- National Commission on Culture and Arts
- Amazon.com.uk
- Ellen Ongkeko
- A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature
- Philippine Forum
- Love Gathers All
- Philippine Daily Inquirer
- Manila Bulletin Online
- Cambridge Filipino Society
- British Library
- United States Library of Congress
- National Library of Australia
- Australian National University Library
- University of California, Berkeley Library
- University of California, Los Angeles Library
- Consorci de Biblioteques Universitaries de Catalunya
- Cornell University Library
- University of Michigan, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
- Ohio University Libraries
- Anagram, Johns Hopkins University
- Australian Perspectives Conference, La Trobe University
- School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne
- Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Melbourne
- Distinguished visitors in 2005, University of Melbourne
- Asian American Studies 363, San Francisco State University
- Uniview, University of Western Australia
- 1st Hong Kong International Literary Festival
