Rashaan Alexis Meneses
Overview
Department:
School of Liberal Arts » Collegiate Seminar
School of Liberal Arts » English Composition
SMC Email Address:
Contact Information:
Email: rm7@stmarys-ca.edu
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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
Professional Experience
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)
Courses Taught
English/Composition
- Introduction to College Composition for High Potential/SAILS Program
- English 3
- English 4
- English 5
Collegiate Seminar
- Greek Thought
- Renaissance Thought
- Roman, Early Christian, Medieval Thought
- 19th & 20th Century Thought
- Seminar 1: Critical Strategies and Great Questions
- Seminar 2: Western Traditions I
- Seminar 103: Western Traditions II
- Seminar 146: The Common Good Seminar: Questions of Citizenship
Justice, Community, and Leadership (formerly known as Liberal and Civic Studies)
- FYAC/Edu 70
- LCS 121: Culture & Civic Responsibility
- LCS 122: Environmental Responsibility
- LCS 123: Modern Global Issues
- LCS 124: Democracy & Active Citizenship
- LCS 124: Senior Assessment and Portfolio
- JCL 125: Text-Based Discussions in a Middle School Classroom
- JCL 130: Environmental Responsibility in a Global Community
- JCL 140: Justice and Leadership in a Global Community
- JCL 190: Senior Thesis and Portfolio
Service
Collegiate Seminar :
- Texts & Teaching Facilitator
- Seminar Student Co-Leader Program (Fall 2017)
- Seminar Diversity Task Force (Fall 2017-present)
- Collegiate Seminar Mentor (Spring 2016)
- Model Implementation Comittee
(September 2011 - Present) - Director Search Committee
(September 2011 - December 2011) - Collegiate Seminar Governing Board Member
(August 2010 - Present)
Kalmanovitz School of Education:
- English Learner Faculty Search Committee
(September 2014 - January 2015)
Liberal & Civic Studies:
- L&CS Governing Board Member
(August 2011 - July 2012)
Strategic Initiative #2 Task Force:
- Support the Student Lifecycle Sub-committee
(March 2014 - June 2014)
Presentations
Selected Presentations
- "What is a Problem but a Reason for Living?" paper presentation for panel "On Community and Navigating Difference" with Prof Monica Fitzgerald, Prof Joe Zeccardi, and alum Holly McAdams at 75th Annual Seminar Symposium, Saint Mary's College of California, September 2017.
- “Craft is Culture: Writing & Reading a Global Imagination” Great Writing: The International Creative Writing Conference (UK), Imperial College, London, UK, June 2016.
- “Identity as Performance in the Post-Colonial Bildungsromanâ€. Meneses, Rashaan (paper)
The International Conference Youth in/and Literature
Organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Universidad NOVA de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal.
(July 2014) - “Then the World Widened: Daring Creative Writing Students to be Cartographers of the Global Imaginationâ€. Meneses, Rashaan (paper)
7th Global Conference Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues
organized by Interdisciplinary.net, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK.
(July 2014) - Writing Our Way Home: Shaping Tradition, History and Culture. Meneses, Rashaan, Igloria, Luisa A, Pineda, Jon and Tenorio, Lysley (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
Filipino American International Book Festival (Filbookfest 2) Likhâ ng Lahi.
(October 19, 2013) - “A Passion for Service to the Public: Generation X & Y Out Front†at Saint Mary’s College of California. Meneses, Rashaan, Cohen , Malia, Martinez, Laura, Myres, Jahmese, Phillips, Felicia and Yamaguchi, Jeremy (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
Liberal & Civic Studies Panel
(March 04, 2013) - Babylon Salon Spring 2013 Reading. Meneses, Rashaan, Bisson, Terry, Ansary, Tamim and Durbin, Kate (reading)
(March 02, 2013) - “Political Narratives in Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Landscapesâ€. Meneses, Rashaan (talk, speech or lecture)
Political Content & Engagement Writing Workshops at Mills College
(November 18, 2012) - 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
- "The Expectant", Kartika Review, Spring 2017.
- "The Body is a Promise", BorderSenses, Volume 21, Fall 2015.
- "The Rift", Puerto Del Sol, Volume 51.1, Fall 2015 (first digital issue).
- "All I Have to Show" Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art Anthology, Rabbit Fool Press, 2015.
- Meneses, Rashaan. ""The Others Are Strangers"." New Letters 80.2 (2014): 12
- 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
Honors, Awards & Grants
Honors:
Finalist:
- 2015 Finalist for Reynolds Price Short Fiction International Literary Award, Center for Women Writers, Salem College.
- 2009 Gift of Freedom - A Room of Her Own Foundation
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.
Awards:
- 2018 Author Fellowship, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
- Ancinas Scholarship for Fiction Program at 47th Annual Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, 2017.
- The Retreat for Writers, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, UK, 2013.
- Artist Residency at MacDowell Colony, 2013.
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Scholarship for Excellence in Fiction - Saint Mary's College of California, 2005.