Alyssa Manansala

Alyssa Manansala is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Brown University, with research specializations in Asian American literature, postcolonial literature, and visual culture. Her current dissertation interrogates how processes of colonialism, capital, and globalization have configured race, heteronormative gender roles, and deviant sexualities to construct and circulate a global figure of the Filipina as caregiver in literary and visual representations. Her objects of analysis include poetry and hybrid literary forms, performance, new media, film, and reality television. Prior to Brown, Alyssa received an MFA in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts and was awarded the 2018/19 Teaching Fellowship and the 2019 REEF Artist Residency by the School of Critical Studies. Her creative and public-facing writing has been published in Nat. Brut, In Dance, TAYO Literary Magazine, and Gulf Coast Review, among others. She has taught courses in literature, visual culture, and writing at Brown, CalArts, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.