作者:Jonah Grinkewitz
When Gabriela Igloria started at 最靠谱的网赌软件, she didn’t have the typical freshman experience of being lost on campus.
Instead, she gave directions.
“It is a little like a second home in some ways because I knew where everything was as soon as I got here,”她说。.
That’s because as the daughter of Luisa A. 伊格洛里亚，路易一世. Jaffe Professor of Creative Writing and English at ODU, she would often tag along to her mom’s classes in the Batten 艺术 and 信 Building as a child.
她的母亲, who is poet laureate emerita for Virginia, instilled in her a love for language at an early age.
“We would do this thing every night where we would just flip to a random page in the dictionary and then I would learn a new word and we would put it on this big wall in our hallway,伊格洛里亚说.
今年12月, she will graduate with two bachelor’s degrees in English and women’s and gender studies and a minor in queer studies. She is also a member of ODU's honors college and received the Anita Clair Fellman Endowed 服务-学习 Scholarship.
Like her mother, she is already an accomplished and talented poet.
During her sophomore year, she won the undergraduate prize in poetry from the Academy of American Poets 因为她的诗 “Dreamscape with Winter, Ghost.” 2017年，她的诗 “教训” was published in the Rattle Young Poets Anthology.
凯思琳罗兹, master lecturer in ODU’s Department of 女性’s and Gender Studies, said she has known Igloria since she was young and watched her grow up near and around the campus. “她是她自己, but Gabby 分享s her mother’s generosity of spirit, sharp intellect and creative talents.”
“It is a little like a second home in some ways because I knew where everything was as soon as I got here."
不仅仅是一个诗人, Igloria also enjoys writing nonfiction and creating zines – hand-made, self-published works that incorporate original or appropriated texts and are designed to be easily circulated.
She said she likes to explore many topics in her work, from her Filipino heritage to environmental issues to local history. While taking one of Rhodes’ queer studies classes, she discovered that her family’s church had queer history associated with it.
“I like doing the sort of nerdy, archival research type of thing and making it something more personal,”她说。.
She also likes to write about things that “haunt” people. Her “Dreamscape …” poem was a pantoum – a 15th-century Malaysian verse form with repeating lines – that helped her process the loss of two childhood friends.
“That’s really interesting to me, as well as how people themselves are not just the haunted but the haunting of their ancestors because of the way we dwell on things,”她说。.
“She has an inquisitive approach to learning that helps her make striking connections between various subjects, and she invites others to 分享 in conversations that, in addition to sometimes providing answers, raises other important questions,罗兹说.
Outside of writing, Igloria served as cultural liaison and then president of ODU’s Filipino American Student Association. In these roles, she tried to keep the history behind Filipino events and traditions front and center.
“There are a lot of things about Filipino culture that are maybe more well known, but also more commodified,”她说。. “So I wanted people to be more aware of what they’re consuming.”
After graduation, Igloria plans to take a break before considering work or graduate school.
“I cannot begin to predict Gabby’s future,” said Rhodes. “I think anything I could imagine would be too limiting given her vision and talents, so I look forward to waiting and finding out what her future holds.”