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Ph.D. Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies, 2009, Australian National University
MPhil Social Anthropology, 1996, University of Cambridge
Dip. Japanese Language, Culture and Affairs, 1994, University of Tokyo
MA Comparative Literature, 1993, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Journalism, 1988, University of Santo Tomas

Research interests: creative writing studies, popular culture, migrant literatures and cultures (Australia, Japan, US), Philippine Studies, Southeast Asian Studies

PUBLICATIONS

Nawiyanto, Nawiyanto, Jose Wendell Capili, and Nina Mutiara Calvaryni. “The Colonial Sugar Industry in Indonesia and the Philippines: A Comparative Perspective.” Paramita: Historical Studies Journal (Indonesian Historical Society), vol. 33, no. 2, 2023.

Migrations and Mediations: The Emergence of Southeast Asian Diaspora Writers in Australia (1972-2007). University of the Philippines Press, 2016.

“素晴らしいオーストラリアの風景.” 詩のアンソロジー, Japan PEN, 2010, pp. 18-19.

Capili, Jose Wendell P, and John Cheeseman, editors. Salu-Salo: In Conversation with Filipinos: An Anthology of Philippine-Australian Writings. Casula Powerhouse and Blacktown Arts Centre, 2008.

From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature. Casula Powerhouse, 2007.

“Palaca Grande.” SARE (Southeast Asian Review of English: Journal of the Malaysian Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Association), vol. 45, 2004, p. 56.

“Soup.” Westerly (University of Western Australia), vol. 49, 2004, p. 63.

“Hakone-Zaiku.” The Literary Review (Fairleigh Dickinson University), vol. 43, no. 3, 2000, p. 361.

“21世紀の日本とアジア諸国との文化交流の展望.” Le Spirit D’Aujourd’hui (Shibundo Co. Ltd.), vol. 4, 1999, pp. 108-115.

A Madness of Birds (poetry) . Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1998.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 50: Survey of Philippine Literature in English
CL 100: Introduction to Comparative Literature
CL 121: Critical Approaches to Literature I
CL 145: The Literature of Japan
CL 150: The Literature of the Philippines in English I
CL 151: The Literature of the Philippines in English II
CL 200: Undergraduate Thesis
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 120: Poetry I
CW 121: Poetry II
CW 140: Creative Nonfiction I
CW 141: Creative Nonfiction II
CW 198: Creative Writing and Popular Culture
CW 198: Special Problems (Creative Writing and Popular Culture)
CW 200: Undergraduate Thesis

Email: jpcapili@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MFA Theatre Arts (Playwriting), 2024, University of Idaho
BA Creative Writing, 2016, University of the Philippines Diliman

Associate Professor

PhD English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
MFA Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin in Madison
MA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman

Professor

PhD in English, State University of New York (SUNY) Albany
MFA Writing, University of Pittsburgh
BA English Studies: Creative Writing, UP Diliman

Research interests: creative writing (poetry/essay), creative writing and cultural institutions/culture industries, zines and DIY publishing

PUBLICATIONS

Modus. Paper Trail Projects, 2022. 

Partial Views: On the Essay as a Genre in Philippine Literary Production. De La Salle University Publishing House, 2021.

“Unfree Association: On Philippine Creative Writing and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy.” Asian English: Histories, Texts, Institutions, edited by Myles Chilton, Steve Clark, and Yukari Yoshihara, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 145–164.

“The Filipino Author as Producer.” Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer’s Craft, edited by Janelle Adsit, Bloomsbury, 2019, pp. 187–195.

“The (Mis)Education of the Filipino Writer: The Tiempo Age and Institutionalized Creative Writing in the Philippines. Kritika Kultura, no. 28, 2017, pp. 3–24. https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/80/908. 

There Is No Emergency. The Youth & Beauty Brigade, 2015.

Two or Three Things about Desire. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2013.

With Adam David and Delilah Aguilar. A Catalogue of Clothes for Sale from the Closet of Christine Abella—Perpetual Student, Ukay Fan, and Compulsive Traveler. The Youth & Beauty Brigade, 2012.

elsewhere held and lingered. High Chair, 2008. Paper Trail Projects, 2023.

Dark Hours. University of the Philippines Press, 2005. The Youth & Beauty Brigade, 2014. Paper Trail Projects, 2022.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 113: Poetry
CL 115: Creative Nonfiction
CL 151: The Literature of the Philippines in English II
CL 251: Philippine Literatures in English II
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 120: Poetry I
CW 121: Poetry II
CW 140: Creative Nonfiction I
CW 141: Creative Nonfiction II
CW 198: Special Topics: Erotic Writing
CW 198: Special Topics: Publishing as Writing Practice
CW 199: Research
CW 202: Poetics: Writing on Writing
CW 220: Poetry Workshop I
CW 221: Poetry Workshop II
CW 222: Poetry Workshop III
CW 302: Seminar in Poetics
CW 321: Poetry Workshop II
English 11: Literature and Society
English 12: World Literatures
English 13: Writing as Thinking
English 42: Survey of American Literature II

Email: crcruz@up.edu.ph

Associate Professor

PhD Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
MA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
B Secondary Education, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: creative writing (fiction), Philippine literature in English, ecocriticism

PUBLICATIONS

“The Disturbance.” Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, vol. 36, no. 2, 2025, pp. 112–121.

“The Forest as Sight, the Forest as Narrative: Alvin Yapan’s Ang Sandali ng mga Mata.” Kritika Kultura, no. 43, 2024, pp. 94–119.

“Forest Thought, Narrativity, and Counterinsurgency in Yñiga.” Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance, vol. 4, no. 1, 2024, pp. 570–68.

“Disrupting the Realist Nation: The Forest as Radical Illegibility in the Novels of Jose Rizal.” Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2023, pp. 213–237.

“Into the Woods: Toward a Material Poetics of the Tropical Forest in Philippine Literature.” eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, vol. 21, no. 2, 2022, pp. 120–139.

When the World Ended I Was Thinking about the Forest. Paper Trail Projects, 2022.

Yñiga: A Novel. Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2022.

“Empathy at the End of the World: Notes on Fiction and Resistance.” Rosa Mercedes, vol. 4, 13 May 2022, https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2022/05/13/empathy-at-the-end-of-the-world-notes-on-fiction-and-resistance/.

“Pandemic Pantries in the Streets? You Communist!” New York Times, 7 May 2021.

The Quiet Ones: A Novel. Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2017.

COURSES TAUGHT

CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: gldiaz@up.edu.ph 

Professor

Ph.D.English Studies: Creative Writing, 2009, University of the Philppines Diliman
MA English, 1997, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
BA English Studies: Creative Writing, 1992, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Creative Writing: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Spiritual Writing, Comics Writing, Speculative Fiction, Comics Writing, Comics Studies, Popular Culture

PUBLICATIONS

“First World Dreams, Third World Realities: Technology and Science Fiction in the Philippines.” Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction. The University of the Philippines Press, 2024.

“Circle of Friends.”  Friend Zones: An Anthology of Stories for Young Adults, edited by Cyan Abad-Jugo, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2016, pp. 39-58.

The Secret of Samson’s Super Strength. OMF Literature, Inc., 2015.

“Up in the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Cultural Identity in Filipino Superhero Komiks.” Negotiating Culture through Comics, edited by Maciej Sulmicki. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014, pp. 3-18.

“De Fotocopias a Libros Electronicos: los cómics independientes filipinos de 1990 en adelant” (translated into Spanish). Perro Berde, No. 4 December 2013.

Diaspora Ad Astra: An Anthology of Science Fiction from the Philippines. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2013. Co-editor, Joseph Nacino.

“The Man who brings the Dark Knight to Light.” Vault. Issue 007. No. 3. 2012.

Virginia Tech Memories: A Filipino Grad Student Looks Back. University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2012.

“The Concept of the Superhero in Filipino Films.” Plaridel: A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media, and Society, vol. 2, no. 2, August 2005, pp. 23-38.

“Comics Crash: Filipino Comics and the Quest for Cultural Identity.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 46-58.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 171: Popular Literature 
CL 271: Popular Literature
CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 110: Fiction I
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 140: Essay I
CW 141: Essay II
CW 180: Comic Book Writing
CW 198: Special Problems
CW 210: Fiction Workshop I
CW 211: Fiction Workshop II
CW 212: Fiction Workshop III
CW 311: Fiction Workshop II
CW 340: Essay Workshop
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 41: Survey of American Literature I
Eng 146: New Genres in Anglo-American Literature 
Eng 398: Special Problems in Literature

Email: emflores@up.edu.ph

Professor

PhD English Studies: Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Journalism, University of Santo Tomas

Research interests: Poetry, creative nonfiction, poetics, queer theory, translation studies, postcolonial studies, Philippine literature in English

Email:  jcgarcia1@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MLitt English Literature: Fantasy, 2022, University of Glasgow
BA Creative Writing, 2019, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Speculative Fiction,  Philippine Literature in English, Popular Culture, Gender Studies

PUBLICATIONS:

“Remade, Reshaped, Remembered”, OTHERSIDE Magazine, Hybris Press, no. 2, June 2026. othersidespec.com/pieces/remade-reshaped-remembered/.

“Silence Starved and Swallowed.” Fantasy Magazine,Psychopomp, no. 97, June 2025. psychopomp.com/fantasy/issue97/silence-starved-and-swallowed/.

“Elizabeth Yu Is a Universal Constant.” Fusion Fragment, no. 21, May 2024, pp. 3–12. www.fusionfragment.com/issue-21/.

“A Consequence of the Body.” Learning to Be Human Short Stories, Flame Tree Press, 2024, pp. 233–250. 

 “Notes Like Footsteps.” Longhand: The Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 21, no. 1, December 2023. longhandjournal.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/final-guerrero_notes_like_footsteps.pdf 

 “The Girl and the Moon Eater.” Tales and Feathers, Augur Press, no. 2, July 2023. augurmag.com/the-girl-and-the-moon-eater 

 “Liwani.” Apex Magazine,  Apex Book Company, no. 137, April 2023. apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-magazine/liwani.

“Genetic Templates and Coded Worlds: David Hontiveros’ Seroks Iteration 1: Mirror Man as World-Driven Dystopia.” Southeast Asian Review of English, vol. 58, no. 1, 12 July 2021, pp. 46–63. https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol58no1.6 

 “Matches.” Philippines Graphic, Anthony C. Cabangon, 15 February 2019. philippinesgraphic.com.ph/2019/02/15/matches 

 “The Other Side.” Philippines Graphic, Anthony C. Cabangon, 17 February 2018, philippinesgraphic.com.ph/2018/02/17/the-other-side 

COURSES TAUGHT:

CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing (Fiction and CNF)
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 150: Writing for Children
CW 151: Writing for Young Adults
CW 250: Writing for Children (Seminar)
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: spguerrero@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Journalism, University of Santo Tomas

Email: mckwe@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing and Education, 2026, Goldsmiths University of London
BA Comparative Literature, 2020, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Poetry, Asian literatures, more-than-human studies

COURSES TAUGHT

CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literature
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: malabrador1@up.edu.ph

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Creative Writing, 2024, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA Creative Writing, 2015, University of the Philippines Diliman
Juris Doctor, 2000, University of the Philippines Diliman
AB Philosophy, 1995, Ateneo de Manila University

Research interests: Invitational Poetics, Creative Writing Studies; Poetry; Stylistics; Law and Literature

PUBLICATIONS

Affidavit of Loss, University of the Philippines Press, 2025.

“Hysterical Femininity in Nick Joaquin’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels.” International Journal of Humanity Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, Sept. 2024, https://doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v8i1.5753.

“Honest Reviews.” Philippine Genre Stories, 16 Dec. 2023, philippinegenrestories.com/2023/12/honest-reviews/.

“Two Poems.” TLDTD, no. 5, Oct. 2022, TLDTD: a biannual journal for Filipino poets and poetry, tldtd.org/poet/christine-v-lao/.

“Today’s Headlines: Poems” Dx Machina 1: Philippine Literature in the Time of COVID. Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, vol 14, no. 2, 21 Feb. 2021, pp. 142-146. journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/lik/article/view/8619.

“From the Book of Names My Mother Did Not Give Me and other stories”. Bravura: An Anthology of 21st Century Philippine Fiction, Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 19, no. 1, 24 Nov. 2020, pp. 462–505, journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/issue/view/705.

“Exchange.” ANMLY: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts, vol. 30, 2020, anmly.org/ap30/filipino-women-30/christine-v-lao/.

“Ignorance of the law excuses no one and other poems.” Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, vol. 13, 2019, pp. 54–61, journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/lik/article/view/6972.

Musical Chairs: Stories. Salaginto Books, 2017. amazon.com/Musical-Chairs-Christine-V-Lao-ebook/dp/B08BKV4QB8.

“From ‘The Difference Between Abundance and Grace.’” Kritika Kultura, vol. 19, 2012, pp. 336–341, journals.ateneo.edu/index.php/kk/article/viewFile/KK2012.01916/1421.

COURSES TAUGHT

CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 110: Fiction I
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 121: Poetry II
CW 198: Special Topics – Law and Creative Writing
CW 200: Thesis
CW 202: Poetics – Writing on Writing
Eng 1: Basic English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 357: Seminar in Language and Literature

Email: cvlao@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA English Literature, 2024, University of Pittsburgh
MA Literary Studies, 2008, National University of Singapore
BA English Studies: Creative Writing, 2005, University of the Philippines

Research interests: Children’s literature, young adult literature, speculative fiction, creative writing, Philippine literature in English

PUBLICATIONS

Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippines Speculative Fiction, edited by Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia Sanchez, and Sydney Paige Guerrero. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2024.

“‘Sometimes, You are an Ordinary Child’: Alternative Temporalities in Erin Entrada Kelly’s Lalani of the Distant Sea”, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023, pp. 216–234, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2023.a933837. 

“When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children’s Literature in the Philippines”, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023, pp. 171–190, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/chq.2023.a918230.

“In the Belly of the Beast”, Mãnoa Journal, Volume 35, Number 2, 2023, pp.115-121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/man.2023.a917306.

“Reading Decolonially in a Children’s Literature Classroom in the Philippines”, in Teaching Equity Through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms, edited by Philip Smith, Stephanie Weaver, and Gayatri Devi. New York: Routledge 2023, pp. 106-123.

“Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults”, Comparative Critical Studies Journal. Issue 2 Vol. 19 No. 3 (2022), pp. 417–428, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2022.0456.

A Playlist for the End of the World: Short Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2022.

“Dreaming Domesticity: The Migrant Workforce in Philippine Science Fiction,” SFRA Review Vol. 51., No.1. sfrareview.org/2021/02/15/dreaming-domesticity-the-migrant-workforce-in-philippine-science-fiction/.

“Digital Liminality and Identities in Philippine Young Adult Speculative Fiction.” Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories. Eds. Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Cely’s Crocodile: The Life and Art of Araceli Limcaco Dans. Makati City: Ilaw ng Tahanan Books, 2020.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 50: Survey of PH Lit in English
CL 111: The Short Story
CL 172: Children’s Literature
CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 150: Writing for Children
CW 151: Writing for Young Adults
CW 198: Special Topics in Creative Writing
CW 199: Research
CW 250: Writing for Children (Seminar)
CW 251: Writing for Young Adults (Seminar)
English 1: College English
English 11: Literature and Society
English 13: Writing as Thinking
English 30: English for the Professions

Email: gdlee@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA English Studies: Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Communication: Journalism, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Young adult literature, language editing

Email: gtlosbanos@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing, 2015, University of the Philippines Diliman
BSE major in English, minor in SPED, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: magical realism, the fairy tale genre, martial law fiction, humor in writing

PUBLICATIONS

“The Magical Mysteries of Tight-Fitting Jeans.” The Lives of a Filipino High School Student: Anthology of Personal Essays on High School in the Philippines. Manila, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2022, pp. 76-79.

Editor. The Picaro of Philippine Dance by Basilio Esteban Villaruz, University of the Philippines Diliman Chancellor’s Office, 2022.

The Shoemaker’s Daughter and Other Stories. Visprint Inc., 2018.

“On the Wire.” Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2018. ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol8/iss1/19 

“My Marikina.” The Manila We Know, Anvil Publishing, 2017, pp. 169-81.

“DarNAtion.” The Philippines Graphic, vol. 23, no. 31-32, December 2012-January 2013, pp. 36-41.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 111: The Short Story
CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 110: Fiction I
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 210: Fiction Workshop I
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: sflumbatajonera@up.edu.ph

Professor

PhD Creative Writing, University of St. Andrews
MA English Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: poetry, creative writing, cognitive poetics, ars poetica, Philippine literature

PUBLICATIONS

Posthumous: Poems. Gacha Press, 2024.

Jolography Retconned: Poems. University of the Philippines Press, 2020.

Happily Ever Ek-ek: Poems. Gacha Press, 2019.

E is for Epal: Poems. Gacha Press, 2018.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 50: Survey of Philippine Literature in English
CL 113: Poetry
CL 151: The Literature of the Philippines in English II
CL 203: Aesthetics and Literary Criticism
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 101: Creative Writing and Criticism
CW 120: Poetry I
CW 121: Poetry II
CW 180: Comicbook Writing
CW 198: Special Problems
CW 199: Research
CW 202: Poetics: Writing on Writing
CW 220: Poetry Workshop I
CW 221: Poetry Workshop II
CW 222: Poetry Workshop III
Eng 23: Introduction to Shakespeare
Eng 125: Metaphysical and Restoration Literature
Eng 223: English Poetry
Eng 235: The Life and Works of Milton

Email: pmmanalo2@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing, 2017, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Creative Writing, 2006, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: creative writing, production of culture, book history, transmedia narratives, comics studies, digital humanities, Philippine literature in English

PUBLICATIONS

“Free and Open Space: Komiks and Speculative Fiction.” Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippines Speculative Fiction, edited by Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia Sanchez, and Sydney Page Guerrero, University of the Philippines Press, 2024, pp. 69-79.

Creative Nonfiction (with Gabriela Lee). Rex Books Inc. Quezon City, Philippines. 2022. 

“Making Space for Myth: Worldbuilding and Interconnected Narratives in Mythspace.” Worldbuilding and the Asian Imagination, special issue of Southeast Asian Review of English, vol. 58, no. 1, 2021, pp. 18-31. https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol58no1.4        

Lapat: Antolohiya ng mga Kontemporaneong Kuwento (edited with Romulo P. Baquiran and Luna Sicat-Cleto). Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino and National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Manila, Philippines, 2020.

Field of Play and Other Fictions. Visprint Inc., 2018.

Here and Now: Selected Poetics from the UP National Writers Workshop.  Edited. UP Institute of Creative Writing, 2018.

“Pigs.” The Best Asian Short Stories. Kitaab International Pte. Ltd., 2017.

“Because we must begin somewhere.” this is how you walk on the moon. Ethos Books, 2016.

“Life/After.” Trash: An Urban Southeast Asian Anthology. Fixi Novo, 2016.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 111: The Short Story
CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 110: Fiction I
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 151: Writing for Young Adults
CW 180: Comicbook Writing
CW 210: Fiction Workshop I
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 10: College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 146: New Genres in Anglo-American Literature

Email: fmquina@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing, 2009, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies: Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing, 2022, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Journalism, 2010, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Philippine fiction and creative nonfiction in English, creative writing pedagogy, research for creative practice

PUBLICATIONS

“Sundays at the Cardozas’.” What Light It Can Hold: The Philippine Short Story in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Gerald Burns and Jose Dalisay Jr., Milflores Publishing, 2025, pp. 237–59.

“4:00 am.” Ani, vol. 42, Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2024.

“Foreword.” The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book: Essays on Exile, by Michael Beltran, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023.

“Caught in the Middle: Narratives of family and class in Philippine short fiction.” Makiling Review, vol. 1, no. 1, December 2022, pp. 83-109. ovcre.uplb.edu.ph/journals-uplb/index.php/makilingreviewjournal/article/view/996/823 

“Postmortem.” Diliman Review: Dánas/[R]ánas: COVID-19 Special Literary Issue, vol. 64, no. 2, 2020, pp. 11–12. University of the Philippines, Diliman.

“Uneven Development.” Tomás, vol. 2, no. 7, 2015, pp. 57-81. tomas.ust.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/09-Uneven-Development-Larissa-Mae-Suarez.pdf 

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 111: The Short Story
CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 101: Creative Writing and Criticism
CW 110: Fiction I
CW 141: Creative Non-Fiction II
CW 199: Research
CW 200: Thesis
CW 210: Fiction Workshop I
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions

Email: lrsuarez@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing, 2025, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Anthropology, 2016, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Mindanawon literatures, Philippine literature in English, non-realist literature

PUBLICATIONS

“Terra Firma: A Benign Apocalypse.” Made in Public, edited by Zian Chen and Marysia Lewandowska, 2022. www.dropbox.com/s/bxuriof6l8gwvrq/Made_in_Public_CCBY3.0_HR.

“Some Swiftly Fading Sky,” Something Never Worn or Used,” “Creatures of Night and Flight.” Bravura: An Anthology of 21st Century Philippine Fiction, special issue of Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, edited by Anna Felicia C. Sanchez, vol. 19, no. 1, 2020, pp. 116–61, journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/issue/view/705/showToc 

“The Safe House.” Kritika Kultura, edited by Martin Villanueva, no. 35, 2020, pp. 277–87. journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/KK2020.03516/3153 

“Dusty Eve.” Lapat: Antolohiya ng mga Kontemporaneong Kwento, edited by Luna Sicat Cleto, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino and National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2020, pp. 220–35. 

“Lover Boy.”  Sanctuary: LGBTQ+ Fiction from the Asia-Pacific, edited by Libay Cantor and Ng Yi-Sheng, Signal 8 Press, 2019, pp. 19–36.

“A Lost History of the Indio.” Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, edited by Eugene Y. Evasco, vol. 12, 2018, pp. 191–210. journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/lik/article/view/6946/6030. 

“Austerity,” “Lessons on Christian Living,” “Urban Studies,” “San Juan City Blues.” SOFTBLOW, edited by Cyril Wong, 2018. www.softblow.org/lakanumali.html 

“Echo and the Beloved,” “Daphne in Old Age.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, edited by Marie Aubrey Villaceran, vol 5, no. 1, 2016, pp. 263-66. www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/article/view/6230/5520 

“Notes on the Permutations of Prayer.” Kritika Kultura, edited by Mark Anthony Cayanan, no. 27, 2016, pp. 276–283. journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/KK2016.02717/2198 

COURSES TAUGHT

CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
CW 100: Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 111: Fiction II
CW 120: Poetry I
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: ldumali3@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Creative Writing (UP Diliman)
BA English Studies: Creative Writing (UP Diliman)

Research interests: Creative writing as translation, bilingual poetry, humor in writing, protest poetry, Philippine literature

Email: lhvasquez@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

PhD Sociology, 2016, La Trobe University
MA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Creative Writing, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Gender studies, arts-based research

PUBLICATIONS

Villaceran, Marie Aubrey. “Exploring Decolonial Feminist Approaches through Arts-Based Research on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Philippines.” Anti-Colonial Research Praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice, edited by Caroline Lenette, Manchester University Press, 2025.

Patiño, Bernard John, Jasmine Cruz, and Marie Aubrey Villaceran. “Kuwentong Buhay: Storytelling in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Research.” Pasya, Laya, at Sining: Reshaping SRHR from the Margins, edited by Shebana Alqaseer and Nathalie Africa-Verceles, UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, 2024, drive.google.com/file/d/1bZ6EUkqOMvKkahF71r6Ii-TIfB5_w1ye/view.

Roman, Jannice, and Marie Aubrey Villaceran. Exploring Methods to Decolonize English Studies. Discussion Paper, UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies, 2023, cids.up.edu.ph/discussion_paper/exploring-methods-decolonize-english-studies.

“Getting Unstuck: Exploring the Modes of Rejection, Resistance, and Negotiation of Filipina Marriage Migrants in Australia.” Gender and Society: Understanding the Gender Dimensions of Philippine Culture and Society, edited by Carolyn I. Sobritchea, Vibal Group Inc., 2023.

Valdez, Ivy Kristina M., et al. “Violence Against Women in the Philippines: Barriers to Seeking Support.” The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, vol. 23, 2022, thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanwpc/PIIS2666-6065(22)00086-4.pdf.

Villaceran, Marie Aubrey, and Myrna Jimenez. “Women and the Environment.” Philippine NGO Beijing+25 Report, edited by Rosalinda Ofreneo and Jeanne Frances Illo, UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, 2020.

“Literary Ethnography: Ethnographic Writing as a Good Read.” Diliman Review, vol. 59, no. 1–4, 2012, pp. 70–91.

COURSES TAUGHT

CW 100 – Introduction to Creative Writing
CW 140 – Creative Non-Fiction I
CW 141 – Creative Non-Fiction II
CW 198 – Special problems in creative writing
CW 199 – Research
CW 240 – Creative Nonfiction I
CW 241 – Creative Nonfiction II
CW 242 – Creative Nonfiction III
CW 298 – Special problems in creative writing
CW 340 – Creative Nonfiction I

Email: mjvillaceran@up.edu.ph