Lopez, Ferdinand M.

PROF. FERDINAND M. LOPEZ

A retired Associate Professor in Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Letters and the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas, where she taught courses in Literary, and Cultural Studies. Prof. Lopez was the U.P. - J. Vargas Museum Centennial Fellow in Arts, Culture and Society in 1990; the 2002 DLSU – NCCA Fellow in Literary Criticism at the University of Saint La Salle in Bacolod; the 2001 British Council Fellow to the 16^th Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature at the Corpus Christi College, Oxford University; the 2011 Japan Fellow to the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminars at Nanzan University; the 2014 – 2017 Taiwan Fellow to the Asian American Studies Summer Institute at the Tsing Hua National University, the National Taiwan University, the National Taiwan Normal University, and the National Chiao Tung University. In addition, she has presented papers at the Guandong University of Foreign Studies, People’s Republic of China; the Vietnam National University, University of Hawaii-Manoa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, University of British Columbia, and the University of Toronto. Prof. Lopez was the Vice Chair of the National Committee on Cultural Education of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (2017-2019). She is an Academic Council member of the Graduate Diploma in Cultural Education of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) – Philippine Cultural Education Program (PCEP); a Board member of the College English Teachers Association (CETA); the President of the Council for Department Chairpersons in English (CDCE). She was cited as one of the 10 Outstanding Teachers of Trinity University in Asia (1991); and the Most Outstanding Teacher in English, and the Most Inspiring Teacher at the De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde (1998). She was awarded the Silver Research Award in 2000-2002, 2002-2004 by the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.

At present, Lopez is an International Scholar at the PhD Program of the Women and Gender Studies Institute, the University of Toronto, and the first Filipino to hold the prestigious Connaught Fellowship in the Humanities, in 2018. She was given the Jack Hallam Excellence Award by the School for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto in September 2019. On December 4, 2020, she obtained the University of Toronto Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-based Violence. In May 2022 she was the recipient of the prestigious Ontario Government Scholarship for Academic Excellence.