Ruth M. Tindaan

Ruth Tindaan

Associate Professor of English

Email: rmtindaan@up.edu.ph

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Ruth M. Tindaan is an Associate Professor of English at the Department of Language, Literature and the Arts (DLLA) simultaneously serving as faculty member of the PhD in Indigenous Studies Program of UP Baguio lodged at the College of Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include: representation of the Indigenous in media and literature, Indigenous Peoples in the diaspora, indigenous language documentation, Indigenous Peoples’ education, crisis communication, and spatial analysis in the urban built environment. She served as Chairperson of DLLA, College Secretary of the College of Arts and Communication and Director of the Cordillera Studies Center.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, University of London
M.A. in Language and Literature, University of the Philippines
B.A. in English Studies, cum laude, University of the Philippines

COURSES TAUGHT
Comm 11 (Advanced College Writing)
BLL 101 (Introduction to Linguistics)
BLL 102 (Theories of Language and Language Acquisition)
BLL 105 (Structure and Development of the English Language)
BLL 122 (Teaching Language and Literature)
BLL 132 (Asian, African and Latin American Literature)
BLL 199.1 (Principles and Methods of Research in Language and/or Literature)
BLL 199.2 (Research Proposal Writing in Language and/or Literature)
MLL 201 (Theory of Language and Language Acquisition)
MLL 202 (Teaching Language and Literature)
MLL 230 (Cultural Criticism)
MLL 231 (Literature in the Oral Tradition)
MLL 298 (Selected Topics in Literature and Related Arts: Film Criticism)
MLL 299 (Research in Language and Literature)
IS 301 (Indigenous Studies)
IS 350 (Perspectives in Indigenous Languages)
IS 351 (Representation of the Indigenous in Media and Literature)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Representation of the Indigenous in Media and Literature
Indigenous Language Documentation
Indigenous Peoples’ Education
Crisis Communication
Indigenous Peoples in the Diaspora
Spatial Analysis in the Urban Built Environment

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

  • Subido, Grace Celeste and Ruth M. Tindaan. 2024. Reframing Igorot Women in Photographs. Baguio City: University of the Philippines Baguio, Museo Kordilyera.
  • Tindaan, Ruth M. 2025. Redefining Indigeneity in Diasporic Igorots’ Social Media. In Indigeneity in the Philippines: Studies on Knowledge, Identity and Rights, edited by Leah Abayao, Jimmy Fong and Carolyn Podruchny. University of Hawaii Press.
  • Tindaan, Ruth M. 2022. “On the European Trail of Ancestors and a Hero”. In Travels, Travails and Triumphs of Igorot Cordillerans in Europe, edited by Myra Zymelka et al., Amsterdam: Mabikas Foundation Netherlands.
  • Tindaan, Ruth M. 2018. “Kankanaey Media Arts”. In the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines

Journal Articles

  • Tindaan, Ruth M. Framing Crisis in Metaphors: Baguio LGU’s Communication Strategies on Covid-19. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. 4 (2025): 535-561 https://doi.org/10.13185/2244-1638.5198
  • Tindaan, Ruth. “Recreating Igorot Identity in Diaspora”. South East Asia Research, 28 (2020): 465-485. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2020.1858151
  • Subido, Grace Celeste and Ruth Tindaan. “Politics and Place: Baguio Center Mall and the Negotiation of Space”. The Cordillera Review 6 (2016): 47-79.
  • Tindaan, Ruth. “Imaging the Igorot in Vernacular Films Produced in the Cordillera”. The Cordillera Review 2 (2010): 81-118.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

  • Tindaan, Ruth M. ed. 2020. International Conference on South East Asian Crafts and Folk Arts: Conference Proceedings. Baguio City: University of the Philippines Baguio.

Conference Presentations

  • Establishment of a Landslide Knowledge Management Center for the Cordillera Administrative Region. Sustaining Traditions, Securing Futures: Community Knowledge in Food Security, Disaster Response, and Climate Change Adaptation International Conference. Western Mindanao State University and UCLA. 21-23 January 2026
  • Profiling State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in the Cordillera on the Integration of Indigenous Peoples Education in Higher Education Curricula. 3 rd International Conference on Cordillera Studies. University of the Philippines Baguio. 8-10 July 2021
  • “Restoring Indigenous Voices in the FPIC Process”, National Indigenous Coalition on Higher Education Conference, Baguio Convention Center, 6-8 March 2024
  • “Redefining Home in Diasporic Igorots’ Social Media” Anthropology of Home, 45th Annual Conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao, Inc., Ateneo de Zamboanga, 9-11 November 2023
  • “Forging Partnerships for MTB-MLE in Baguio City” , Virtual International Mother Language Conference and Festival organized by IYIL Philippines, 21 February – 20 March 2021
  • “The Politics of Language Documentation: Fieldwork Among the Vanaw of Northern Philippines”, 24th Young Scholars’ Conference on Philippine Studies in Japan, Nagoya University, 22-23 June 2019.
  • “Performing Identity in Migration”, Asian Conference in Cultural Studies, International Academic Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 24-26 May 2019.
  • “Igorotak ed UK: Indigenous Identity Performance in Diaspora”, Representing the Philippine Cordillera, Issues of Cultural Ownership, Commodification and Appropriation. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 13-14 July 2018
  • “Reconstituting Community in the Igorot Diaspora in the United Kingdom, Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Sydney, 14-17 December 2016

Short Communications

  • Tindaan, Ruth. 2004. “Voices from the Margins: Redeeming the Past, Book Review of Japanese Pioneers in the Northern Philippine Highlands by Patricia Afable”, Baguio Midland Courier, August 29.

AWARDS, CITATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • 2025-2027 One UP Professorial Chair Award in Cultural Studies for Outstanding Teaching and Public Service
  • 2021, International Publication Award for Recreating Igorot Identity in Diaspora, University of the Philippines
  • UP Baguio Golden Jubilee Research and Creative Work Award, UP Baguio, 2009
  • Master of Arts in Language and Literature Outstanding Thesis Award, UP Baguio, 2008

 

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