Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard Explained

Genre:Poetry
Occupation:Academic, writer
Birth Place:Utulei, American Samoa
Death Place:Vaivase-uta, Samoa
Nationality:American

Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard (1946 – 26 May 2024) was an American Samoan academic, writer, poet, and environmentalist. She was the first Samoan to become a full professor in the United States.[1]

Life and career

Sinavaiana-Gabbard was born in Utulei village, Tutuila, American Samoa in 1946.[2] [3] She was educated at Sonoma State University, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawai'i.[4] Her PhD thesis was on Traditional Comic Theater in Samoa: A Holographic View.[5] She taught creative writing as a faculty of the Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.[4] [6], from 1997 until her retirement in 2016. In 2002 she published her collection of poetry, Alchemies of Distance.[7] [8]

In August 2020 she was named by USA Today on its list of influential women from U.S. territories.[2]

Sinavaiana-Gabbard moved to Samoa after she retired. She was killed at the GaluMoana Theater in Vaivase-uta, on 26 May 2024, at the age of 78.[9] [10] Playwright Sia Figiel was charged with her murder.[11] [12]

Notes and References

  1. News: Kerry Howley . June 11, 2019 . Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood . . Vox Media.
  2. Web site: Politician Tulsi Gabbard, 'West Side Story' star Rita Moreno among influential women from U.S. territories . USA Today . Coral . Murphy-Marcos . Lindsay . Schnell . 14 August 2020 . 2 December 2022.
  3. Madsen, Deborah L. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Routledge. Page 45. .
  4. Web site: Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard. 2019-03-04. Poetry Foundation. en. 2019-03-04.
  5. Traditional comic theater in Samoa : a holographic view . Caroline Sinavaiana . PhD . University of Hawai'i . 1992.
  6. Web site: Margaret Mead Was Wrong - Page 2 . 3ammagazine.com. 9 June 2016.
  7. Web site: RATTLE e-Review: ALCHEMIES OF DISTANCE by Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard. Rattle.com. 9 June 2016.
  8. Web site: The warrior and her poetry . International Examiner . 20 December 2006 . 2 December 2022.
  9. Web site: Samoan novelist and playwright charged with murder . Talanei . 27 May 2024 . 28 May 2024.
  10. https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/109458 Prof. Gabbard was a respected academic
  11. Web site: Playwright charged for gruesome murder . Samoa Observer . Matai'a Lanuola Tusani T - Ah Tong . 28 May 2024 . 28 May 2024.
  12. Web site: Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer . RNZ . 31 May 2024 . 31 May 2024.

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