好色先生

Department Chair, Associate Professor

Dr. Lacanlale is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include race/ethnicity, transnationalism, postcolonialism, popular culture, Asian Americans, Filipino Americans, and the Philippines. She was awarded a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in Ethnomusicology and was a Fulbright (IIE) Scholar to the Philippines, Ford Dissertation Fellow, a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Tufts University. She performs on Philippine gongs with the Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble. Dr. Lacanlale received the Catherine H. Jacobs Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award in 2017 and the in 2022.

Recent Publications:

Talusan, Mary and Bernard Ellorin. 2024. 鈥淩eframing & Reclaiming Kulintang Music: Countering Written History with Contemporary Reality.鈥� In Media and Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines, edited by Jason Telles. London: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies). (peer-reviewed)

Talusan, Mary. 2023. Filipinos in Greater Boston. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press.

Talusan, Mary and Theodore S. Gonzalves, co-producers. 2021. . Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40593, 2-set compact disc.

Talusan, Mary. 2021. . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. (peer-reviewed)

Talusan, Mary. 2021. 鈥淔ilipino Festivals in Southern California鈥� in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Oxford University Press. (peer-reviewed)

Talusan, Mary. 2021. 鈥淭radition and Innovation in the Dayunday Courtship Drama of the Magindanao, Muslim Filipinos from the Southern Philippines,鈥� Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections. London: Routledge. (peer-reviewed)

Lipat-Chesler, Eleanor, and Mary Talusan, eds. 2020. Los Angeles: Ube Arte.