Grace Odal-Devora
Prof. Grace Odal-Devora served as Instructor at the Department of Arts and Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Manila from 1979, until her retirement in 2021. Within this period, she was awarded as Outstanding Artist in 2001 and 2009 by UP Manila; Outstanding Faculty in Research and Publication by UP Manila in 2002; and Outstanding Faculty in Extension Service by the College of Arts and Sciences in 2007. She finished her BA in English, with a concentration in Comparative Literature in 1977 from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, QC; her MA in Asian Studies in 1986 from the Asian Center, UP Diliman, QC; and her PhD in Philippine Studies from the Tri-College, UP Diliman, in 2012. Her dissertation on the Mutya-Diwa forms the basis of her upcoming plan to create a MUTYA Museum for a History of Ideas in Davao City. Her free-flow dance practice that she calls “Mutya Alay-Sayaw Dance Offering for Earth-Healing" is the application of her 16-year research on the Mutya as applied in Creative Indigenous Dance.