José Wendell Capili

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name = Jose Wendell Capili


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education = University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo, University of Cambridge, Australian National University
occupation = Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at the [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~kal/ College of Arts and Letters] , University of the Philippines, where he is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Poet, Author
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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,University of Cambridge and Australian National University. He is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, where he is also the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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); "Mabuhay to Beauty!" (popular culture, Milflores Publishing, 2003), "From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature" (anthology, Casula Powerhouse, 2007) and "Salu-Salo: In Conversation with Filipinos" (anthology, Casula Powerhouse and Blacktown Arts Centre, 2008). His works have been published in Europe, North America, East/Southeast Asia and Australia, including [http://www.theliteraryreview.org/ Literary Review] , [http://www.poetrysalzburg.com/psr-main.htm The Poet’s Voice] (University of Graz), [http://times.hankooki.com/ Korea Times] , [http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/index.asp Korea Herald] , [http://philippinesfreepress.wordpress.com/ Philippines Free Press] , "Philippine Graphic", "Manila Chronicle", [http://www.inq7.net The Philippine Daily Inquirer] , [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001307596.html The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction] , "Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento", [http://www.science.upd.edu.ph/main/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=16 Diliman Review] , [http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_ncca/publications/pub-books.php Bulawan] , [http://www.uiowa.edu/~lawlib/vendors/solidar.htm Solidarity] , [http://www.amazon.com/dp/9718577904 Caracoa] , [http://www.jhu.edu/anagram/ Anagram] , [http://www.majormedia.co.uk/mabuhay.html Mabuhay] , [http://www.geocities.com/sandsandcoral/archive.html Sands and Coral] , [http://library.ust.edu.ph/journals/Unitas.pdf Unitas] , [http://library.ust.edu.ph/journals/Tomas.pdf Tomas] , [http://aegis.ateneo.net/facres/budhi.htm Budhi] , [http://www.ateneopress.org/phil2&3q2005.asp Philippine Studies] , [http://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/store/mli_listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=28&curPage=2&listsort= Love Gathers All: Philippine-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry] (Singapore: [http://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/store/index4.html Ethos Books] ), [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/x011_dis.html Flippin': Filipinos on America] (New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop and Philadelphia: Temple University Press), and [http://westerly.uwa.edu.au/ Westerly] .

Capili worked 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; [http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/CSAL/csal.html Westerly Centre] , University of Western Australia; University of Melbourne; and the University of Queensland.

In 2008, Capili became Nestle Philippines' [http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/june/01/yehey/career/20080601car2.html Laki sa Gatas] advocate for [http://www.nestle.com.ph/corpsite/content/product.asp?pcid=1 Bear Brand] Milk. He joined the product's other endorsers, Batangas Governor and actress Vilma Santos, Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, Miss International 2006 Precious Lara Quigaman and actress Eugene Domingo.

Books

Poetry

"A Madness of Birds", University of the Philippines Press, 1998

Essays

"Bloom and Memory", University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2002

Popular culture

(as editor) "Mabuhay to Beauty!", Milflores Publishing, 2003

Anthology

(as editor) "From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature", Casula Powerhouse, 2007

(as co-editor, with John Cheeseman) "Salu-Salo: In Conversation with Filipinos", Blacktown Arts Centre and Casula Powerhouse, 2008

Translation

(translated and edited with John Jack Wigley) "Lupito and the Circus Village" (translation of "Si Lupito at ang Barrio Sirkero" written by Rowald Almazar, artworks by Jose Santos III), UST Publishing House, 2008

Honors and awards

* [http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/task,view_writer/writer_from,C/writer_to,Czzz/Itemid,220/ Sydney Writers Festival]
*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. Doctoral Studies Fellowship
*University of Malaya [http://www.um.edu.my/ccm/navigation/academics/centres/pbudaya/ Cultural Centre] grant
* [http://aei.um.edu.my/ University of Malaya Asia-Europe Institute] grant
*Standard Chartered Bank and University of Hong Kong grant, 1st Hong Kong International Literary Festival
* [http://www.britishcouncil.org/home British Council] fellow, Downing College, Cambridge
* [http://www.britishcouncil.org/home 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
* [http://www.kofo.or.kr/ Korea Foundation] Research Fellowship, Seoul National University
* [http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/gsprospectus/funding/overseas/ Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary] , Clare Hall, Cambridge
* [http://www.unesco.or.jp/meguro/ Meguro UNESCO] travel grant (Nagano, Japan)
* [http://www.nyc.go.jp 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
* [http://www.mfi.com.ph/ Mowelfund Film Institute] and Quezon City International Short Film Festival Essay Competition
* [http://www.thehumanist.org/ 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. Outstanding Student Artist
*Writing Fellow, [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~icw/fellows.htm 18th U.P. National Writers Workshop]
*Writing Fellow, [http://www.geocities.com/nwwdumaguete/1989.html 28th National Writers Workshop] (Dumaguete)

External links

* [http://www.panitikan.com.ph/authors/c/jwcapili.htm panitikan.com.ph]
* [http://www.panitikan.com.ph/newsandevents.htm#4 Who are the best young poets in the Philippines? by Arvin Abejo Mangohig]
* [http://www.palhbooks.com/francia.htm "Flippin': Filipinos on America"]
* [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/catalogs/spring1998.html Temple University Press]
* [http://asianstudies.anu.edu.au/calendar/view_entry.php?id=263&date=20051206 "Telling Pacific Lives"]
* [http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/publication/books_on_japan/boj_b_200504-06_A.html Books on Japan]
* [http://www.cherimercado.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=9 Guess Who's Coming to Coffee?]
* [http://www.ateneopress.org/phil2&3q2005.asp Philippine Studies]
* [http://www.up.edu.ph/nemenzo_australia.htm University of the Philippines System]
* [http://www.up.edu.ph/forum/2002/Sept02/palanca.html "UP Forum" Online]
* [http://newsletter.up.edu.ph/previous/archived.htm "UP Online Newsletter"]
* [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~updinfo/archives/MayJun2002/cal.htm "UPdate Diliman" May-June 2002]
* [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~updinfo/archives/NovDec2003/articles/CAMFACE-CAL.htm "UPdate Diliman" Nov.-Dec. 2003]
* [http://www.up.edu.ph/~icw/fellows.htm U.P. Institute of Creative Writing]
* [http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/articles.php?artcl_Id=22 National Commission on Culture and Arts]
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9715421954 Amazon.com.uk]
* [http://www.geocities.com/ellenongkeko/capili_article.htm Ellen Ongkeko]
* [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/capili_expatriate.html A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature]
* [http://www.philippinestudies.org/04_staff.htm Philippine Forum]
* [http://www.oovrag.com/books/lga.shtml "Love Gathers All"]
* [http://www.inq7.net/opi/2003/nov/26/opi_highblood1-1.htm "Philippine Daily Inquirer"]
* [http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2004/09/18/MTNN2004091818708.html "Manila Bulletin" Online]
* [http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/pinoy/alum.htm Cambridge Filipino Society]
* [http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list British Library]
* [http://catalog.loc.gov/ United States Library of Congress]
* [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/search/osearch?term=Capili&action=MultiSearch&mode=search National Library of Australia]
* [http://library.anu.edu.au/search/aCapili/acapili/1%2C2%2C4%2CB/exact&FF=acapili+jose+wendell+p&1%2C3%2C Australian National University Library]
* [http://sunsite5.berkeley.edu:8000/ University of California, Berkeley Library]
* [http://catalog.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=capili&Search_Code=CMD&DB=local&CNT=50 University of California, Los Angeles Library]
* [http://sumaris.cbuc.es/cgis/sumari.cgi?issn=0043342X&idsumari=A2004N000000V000049 Consorci de Biblioteques Universitaries de Catalunya]
* [http://www.library.cornell.edu/Asia/acc/acc_may2002/Philippines.pdf Cornell University Library]
* [http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Southeast.Asia/ University of Michigan, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library]
* [http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/news/2004-02/p.htm Ohio University Libraries]
* [http://www.jhu.edu/~anagram/ "Anagram", Johns Hopkins University]
* [http://scilib.univ.kiev.ua/volume.php?193149 University of Kiev Library, Ukraine]
* [http://www.aussiemuslims.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-2579.html Australian Perspectives Conference, La Trobe University]
* [http://www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/research/research_seminars.lasso?year=2001 School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne]
* [http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/news/seminars/anthropology.html Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Melbourne]
* [http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/strengths/visitors/visitors.html Distinguished visitors in 2005, University of Melbourne]
* [http://eths.sfsu.edu/aas363f2001/bibliographies/ "Asian American Studies 363", San Francisco State University]
* [http://uniview.publishing.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/63341/uniview_Vol25No1_2006-02.pdf "Uniview", University of Western Australia]
* [http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A6P3, AustLit The Resource for Australian Literature]
* [http://www.varsitarian.com/archivedetail.asp?ArticleID=7903210001&Sections=Literary, The Varsitarian]
* [http://www.radio.sbs.com.au/language.php?happening=4860&language=Filipino, SBS Radio Australia]
* [http://libro.ph/pen/at-home-in-homeliness-an-anthology-of-philippine-postcolonial-poetry-in-english/ At Home in Unhomeliness: An Anthology of Philippine Postcolonial Poetry in English]
* [http://libro.ph/pen/conference-schedule/ Philippine PEN Conference]
* [http://www.valikvarsi.com/articles/the-varsitarian-in-the-80s The Varsitarian in the 80s]
* [http://kal.upd.edu.ph/pagefull.php?p=68 College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines]
* [http://www.paddyfield.com.hk/festival/2000/2001prog.php "1st Hong Kong International Literary Festival"]
* [http://www.westerlycentre.uwa.edu.au/westerly/search/westerly_v.492004"Westerly 2004 v.49"]
* [http://www.swf.org.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=227&year=&month=&day=&Itemid=141 From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature, Sydney Writers' Festival 2007]
* [http://www.swf.org.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_writer&writer_from=C&writer_to=Czzz&Itemid=141 Sydney Writers' Festival 2007 - Online Program]

* [http://kal.upd.edu.ph/news.php?id=50 UP CAL Professors launch books at the 2008 Sydney Writers' Festival]
* [http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/task,view_writer/writer_from,C/writer_to,Czzz/Itemid,220/ Sydney Writers' Festival 2008]
* [http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,314/year,2008/month,05/day,25/Itemid,249/ Filipino Writers at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2008]
* [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/88661/Filipino-events-at-the-Sydney-Writers-Festival Filipino events at the Sydney Writers Festival]
* [http://www.philippinetimes.com.au/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=85&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=739&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1759&hn=philippinetimes&he=.com.au Filipino Events at the Sydney Writers' Festival May 24-28, 2008]
* [http://www.radio.sbs.com.au/language.php?happening=4860&language=Filipino SBS Radio]
* [http://umpil.org/members/officers/ Writers Union of the Philippines]
* [http://www.writelit.com/veteran-authors-literary-luminaries-judged-this-year039s-palanca-awardees Veteran authors, literary luminaries judged this year's Palanca awardees]
* [http://www.gmanews.tv/story/101294/RP-universities-get-low-rankings-La-Salle-UST-dropped-out-of-Top-500 RP universities get low rankings, La Salle, UST dropped out of top 500]
* [http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsDecember2007January2008 Austlit]
* [http://libro.ph/pen/at-home-in-homeliness-an-anthology-of-philippine-postcolonial-poetry-in-english/ At Home With Unloneliness: An Anthology of Philippine Postcolonial Poetry in English]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYfX_4yQ24 Nestle Philippines - Bear Brand Milk TV Commercial produced by Chris Cahilig Consultancy]