Rashaan Meneses  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• MFA Fiction, Creative Writing , Saint Mary's College of California, June 2006
• B.A. English, Creative Writing Specialization, University of California, Los Angeles , June 1998

Award:

• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Scholarship for Excellence in Fiction - Saint Mary's College of California

Fellowships:

• Retreat for Writers - Hawthornden Castle in Scotland (June 2013)
• MacDowell Colony Fellowship - The MacDowell Colony (January 2013)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship - U.S. Department of Education (2005)

Finalist:

• Gift of Freedom - A Room of Her Own Foundation (2009)

Nominated:

• Best of the Net Fiction Prize - Sundress Publications (December 2011)
  Short story "Like Fish to Ginger" published and nominated by UC Riverside's Coachella Review.

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• We're All Others Now: Revisiting Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in the Age of Post-post-colonialism. Meneses, Rashaan (talk, speech or lecture, paper)
  18th Annual ACTC Conference
  (March 31, 2012)
• Engaging First Generation Students with Jean Jacques Rousseau's "Discourse on Inequality". Meneses, Rashaan (talk, speech or lecture, paper)
  17th Annual ACTC Conference
  (2011)
• Blurred into the Landscape: Writing the Lives of Invisible Los Angeles.
  City University of New York's English Students Association, Graduate Student Conference on Literature and the City
  (March 24, 2006)

Publications:

• Meneses, Rashaan. "Barbie's Gotta Work." Doveglion Press , Eds. and Reyes, Barbara Jane and Bermeo , Oscar, March 2012
• Guevarra, Dr. Rudy . Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego . New Jersey: Rutgers University Press , 2012.
• Meneses, Rashaan. ""With Hummingbird in Hand"." Kurungabaa 4.1 (2012): 76-82
• Meneses, Rashaan. "Like Fish to Ginger." Coachella Review, Iss. Fall 2010. University of California, Riverside, 2010
• Meneses, Rashaan. ""Here in the States"." Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. Ed. Brainard, Cecilia M. Los Angeles : Philippine American Literary House, 2009. 15
• "Son Jalisciense." Pembroke Magazine, Vol. 40, Ed. Wendorff, Liliana. University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 2008