Dr. Evelyn Flores

Dr. Evelyn Flores specializes in 19th-century American Literature, Pacific Island Literature, and Postcolonial Theory. She comes to Women and Gender Studies via her interest in literature by women and feminist literary theory. She has published three indigenous children's books, two of them featuring young girls as main characters. Recently, she completed a photo genealogy of a Chamoru family central to a crucial event in the Americanization of Guam, the break of key spiritual leaders from the Catholic Church in the 19th century precipitated by the coming of American whalers to the island. Currently, she is working on the publication of an article about a Native Hawaiian woman named Pi’ilani whose story published in the early 1900s exposes the politics of race and disease in Jack London’s story about Ko’olau the leper. She is also working to complete an article examining the complex functions of women in Louise Erdrich’s novels.

Dr. Flores loves hiking, camping, and swimming. Lately, however, she’s had little time for these, engrossed as she is with her added responsibilities in the University’s Faculty Senate as Chair of the Standing Committee on Institutional Excellence.