Sharon Delmendo

Sharon Delmendo (born 1964) is an English professor at St. John Fisher College. An alumnus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Professor Delmendo received her PhD in English in 1993 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, finishing her dissertation, "Engendering the American Domestic," in Amherst, MA, on a Five College Minority Fellowship at Hampshire College. She is currently a Professor of English at St. John Fisher ... more

Sharon Delmendo (born 1964) is an English professor at St. John Fisher College. An alumnus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Professor Delmendo received her PhD in English in 1993 from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, finishing her dissertation, "Engendering the American Domestic," in Amherst, MA, on a Five College Minority Fellowship at Hampshire College. She is currently a Professor of English at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY and is the youngest faculty member to rise to the rank of full professor at St. John Fisher. Also notable, the Dean of the College bestowed upon her the Teacher-Scholar Award in 1999 and the Board of Trustees' honored her with the Trustees' Distinguished Scholar Award in 2006, the highest honor that the trustees can bestow with the exception of an honorary degree. Her book, a research project in Philippine-American studies entitled, "The Star-Entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines" (Rutgers... less