Biography of Damiana L.

Eugenio

Damiana L. Eugenio is a Filipino folklorist renowned for her

scholarly anthologies of Philippine epics, folktales, myths and
proverbs. She was a professor, writer and researcher from the
University of the Philippines and was responsible for landmark
publications on Philippine oral and epic literature. She received
a bachelor's degree in education from UP, cum laude. Her
dissertation was on the awit and corrido of the Philippines.
Eugenio continued her masteral studies in English literature at
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts and received her
doctoral degree from the University of California in Los
Angeles, United States. She was designated professor emeritus
of the UP Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Eugenio has been honored with awards from the Manila Critics
Circle, Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL), and UP.