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Assistant Professor

MA Comparative Literature, 2023, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Creative Writing, 2014, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Philippine literature, short story studies, affect, literature and socioeconomic class

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 111: The Short Story
CL 122: Critical Approaches to Literature II
CL 142: The Literatures of Southeast Asia I
CL 151: The Literature of the Philippines in English II
CW 10: Creative Writing for Beginners
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: flang@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

AB Literature (English), 2012, Ateneo de Manila University
MA Literary and Cultural Studies, 2018, Ateneo de Manila University

Instructor

BA Comparative Literature, 2023, University of the Philippines Diliman

Professor

MA in International Culture and Communication Studies, 2024,  Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University
BA in Comparative Literature (Asian Literatures), 2019, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: omen’s writing, Asian literatures, Japanese literature, cultural studies, media studies, critical theory

PUBLICATIONS

“Binding Threads: The Emotional Structure of Attachment in the Animated Series Demon Slayer.” Transcomunication, vol. 8, no. 2, 2021, pp. 212-233.

“Peppo as Onnagata, Peppo as Maid: Deviance and Defiance in Gankutsuou.” Journal of English and Comparative Literature, vol. 17, 2018, pp. 60-77.

“Hands” & “Birdflight” in Danas: mga pag-aakda ng babae ngayon, edited by Faye Cura and Janine Dimaranan. Gantala Press, 2017, pp. 46-48.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 145: The Literature of Japan
CL 122: Critical Approaches to Literature II
CL 172: Children’s Literature
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: chborlaza@up.edu.ph 

Associate Professor

PhD in Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
MA in Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA in Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: autobiography studies, memory studies, Philippine literature, Philippine women’s writing, literature during the Marcos dictatorship

Email: mrconcepcion1@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Comparative Literature, 2021, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Comparative Literature, 2009, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research Interests: 19th century Philippine Literature, Critical Theory, the Archive of Isabelo de Los Reyes, Marxism, Literary Anthropology, Popular Culture, Folklore

PUBLICATIONS

“Modular Imagined Community: Manila’s Koreatown in the Time of Global Korea and the Popularity of Samgyupsal” SUVANNABHUMI: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, January 2024, pp. 39-80, suvannabhumi.bufs.ac.kr/suvannabhumi/index.php?pCode=MN200005&mode=view&idx=96144.

With Sollano, Francis (issue co-editor). “Interdisciplinarity in the Philippine Academia: Theory, History, and Challenges.” Kritika Kultura Journal, 33/34, 2020, pp. 300-310, journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/kk/article/view/3070.

“Perspectives on Philippine Languages: Five Centuries of European Scholarship by Marlies S. Salazar (review).” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, vol. 63, no. 2, 2015, pp. 282-286. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/pub/146/article/580850.

COURSES TAUGHT

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: jbcuartero@up.edu.ph  

PhD Philippine Studies, 2008, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA Comparative Literature, 1998, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Comparative Literature, 1992, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Women’s Auto/biographical Writing, Narrative Writing/Discourse, Gender and Women’s Issues, and Overseas Filipino Worker Culture and Discourse

PUBLICATIONS

“Families in Transition: Gender, Overseas Migration, and the Romance of the ‘Filipino Family’.” The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice, edited by Yoko Hayami, Junko Koizumi, Chalidaporn Songsamphan, and Ratana Tosakul. Kyoto and Chiang Mai: Kyoto University Press and Silkworm Books, 2012.

“Itinerant Lives, the Filipino ‘Family’ and the Emotionality of Overseas Labor Migration.” Migration and Gender in Globalized Asia, edited by Huh Ra-Keum. Seoul: Hanul Academy, 2011. [Translated into Korean]

Chapter 9: “Narrating Migration, Reading a Political Itinerary: Connie Bragas-Regalado, OFW.” Traveling-Nation Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia, edited by Caroline S. Hau and Kasian Tejapira. Singapore: Kyoto University Press and National University of Singapore Press, 2011.

Teaching CEDAW: A Compendium of Teacher’s Guidelines on Integrating a Human Rights Framework in the College Curriculum with CEDAW Application, editor. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies, 2008.

Reprint. “Testimonial Narratives: Memory & Self-Representation in Letters by Women Migrant Workers.” Gender, Culture & Society: Selected Readings in Women’s Studies in the Philippines, ed., Carolyn I. Sobritchea, Women’s Studies in Asia Series. Seoul: Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University and Ewha Womans University Press, 2004.

From Saudi with Love: 100 Poems by OFWs, editor. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Diliman Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Development, 2003.

Body Politics: Essays on Cultural Representations of Women’s Bodies, editor. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies with support from The Ford Foundation, 2002.

“The Philippines.” Encyclopedia of Life Writing, edited by Margaretta Jolly. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

“On the Border, in the Cross Fires: Chicanas Voicing Identity.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, No. 2 (January 1998), DECL, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1998.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 30: Survey of European Literatures
CL 106: Literature and the Social Sciences
CL 108: Literature and Gender
CL 110: Literature, Politics, and Social Change
CL 121: Critical Approaches to Literature I
CL 123: Critical Approaches to Literature III
CL 132: The Literatures of Ancient Civilizations
CL 133: The Literatures of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
CL 147: Third World Fiction
CL 154: Philippine Women Writers in English
CL 166: The Literatures of Latin America
CL 182: Western Feminist Theories and Literary Practices
CL 183: Non-Western Feminist Theories and Literary Practices
CL 198: Selected Topics (Narrative, Memory, Testimony); (Narrative Discourse, Mass
Media, and the ‘Recollection of Things to Come’); (Everyday Humanities, 21st
Century Education, and Édouard Glissant’s “Poetics of Relation”)
CL 199: Research
CL 200: Undergraduate Thesis
CL 202: Literary Theory and Criticism
CL 203: Aesthetics and Literary Criticism
CL 206: Literary History
CL 266: The Literatures of Mexico, Central and South America
CL 282: Feminist Perspectives in Literature
CL 284: Gender Issues in Literature
CL 298: Directed Readings
CL 299: Research
CL 300: Master’s Thesis
CL 301: Seminar: Areas and Methods of Comparative Literature
CL 302: Seminar: Literary Theory and Criticism
CL 310: Seminar: Literature and the Social Sciences
CL 399: Research
CL 400: Doctoral Dissertation
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 30: English for the Professions

Email: omdeguzman@up.edu.ph 

Associate Professor

PhD Comparative Literature, 2020, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
AB History, BSc Management, Assumption College

Research interests: Travel Writing on the Philippines in the 16th-19th centuries, the Magellan expedition (1521), Isabelo de los Reyes, Reading Water, Philippine Folklore

PUBLICATIONS

“Humor and Satire in Isabelo de los Reyes’s El Diablo en Filipinas.” Banwaan Special Issue, Isabelo’s Folklore, 2025, pp. 20-42.

“Editor’s Preface: 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines.” Filipinas Journal #4, 2021. Published by the Philippine Studies Association. pp..i-vii.

“Book Review: Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, Pigafettas’s Philippine Picnic: Culinary Encounters During the First Circumnavigation, 1519-1522.”” Filipinas Journal #4, 2021, pp. 163-168.

“The Afterlives of the Noli me Tangere.” Philippine Studies, Vol. 59, no. 4. Rizal@150; 1861-2011 (December 2011), pp. 495-527. Published by Ateneo de Manila University.

“The Marvelous Turn in the Travel Accounts of the Magellan Expedition in the 16th century.” Journal of English and Comparative Literature, Vol. 10, no. 1, June 2010.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 30: Survey of European Literature
CL 100: Introduction to Comparative Literature
CL 104: Literature and the Other Arts I
CL 110: Literature, Politics and Social Change
CL121: Critical Approaches to Literature I
CL 123: Critical Approaches to Literature III
CL 133: The Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
CL 134: Modern European Literature
CL 135: Literature of Contemporary Europe in English Translation
CL 155: Philippine Literature in Spanish in English Translation
CL 198: Selected Topics
CL 200: Undergraduate Thesis
CL 201: Areas and Methods of Comparative Literary Study
CL 202: Literary Theory and Criticism
CL 230: European Literature
CL 252: Philippine Literary Relations
CL 301: Seminar: Areas and Methods of Comparative Literature
CL 302: Seminar: Literary Theory and Criticism

Email: atdeocampo@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Cultural Studies,2023, Goldsmiths, University of London
BA Comparative Literature, 2016, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: sound, ecology, cultural studies

PUBLICATIONS

“Flashes of Astonishment in the Years of Fog and Mist.” Power Naps Post, vol. 1, no. 2. August 10, 2023. para-site.art/programme/power-naps-post-volume-1-number-2-august-2023

“The Soundscape of Manila’s Jeepneys.” Sonic Street Technologies, May 31, 2023. sonic-street-technologies.com/the-soundscape-of-manilas-jeepneys/

“Solve et Coagula.” Tractions: experiments in art writing. Medium, May 13, 2020. tractions-artwriting.medium.com/solve-et-coagula-94354db28c70

EXHIBITIONS

“I hear the axe has flowered. I hear the place is unnamable.” Off-Air: The Use and the Abuse of the Atmospheric. June 13 – August 24, 2024, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok.

“Partial Shadow.” Object Orientations. May 26 – June 24, 2023, Gravity Art Space, Quezon City.

“Displacements.” MUTANT: rA/Ve. 10 December 2022, Delfina Foundation, London.

“Songs the Lord Will Teach Us.” Pigeon Pavilion. March 13 – April 3, 2021, Margaret MacMillan Park, London.

“Insect Clusters.” Yielding Nodes. June 16 – 17, 2018, Kuna ng Dahon, Cavite.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 105: Literature and the Other Arts II
CL 135: Literature of Contemporary Europe in English Translation
English 11: Literature and Society
English 12: World Literatures
English 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: anledesma@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

PhD in Humanities, International and Advanced Japanese Studies, University of Tsukuba
MA in Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA in Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: PGraphic narratives, literary intermediality and, transmedia adaptation, gender and genre, Faust myth

PUBLICATIONS

Book Review for Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan. By Stevie Suan. The Journal of Asian Studies (2022), vol 81.4. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 9781517911782 (paper). doi:10.1017/S0021911822001553

“BUTTERFLIES, MERMAIDS, MEPHISTOPHELES Figurations of Femininity in Two Faust Texts” in Collisions of Cultures: Frictions and Re-Shapings. Lily Rose Tope / Wolfgang Zach (eds.) Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 35. Hamburg, 2022. ISBN 978-3-339-13200-0 (Print) / ISBN 978-3-339-13201-7

[Co-authored with Julie B. Jolo] “Courting the Gaze, Romancing the Margins: Queer Re-Orientation in Emiliana Kampilan’s Komix,” Review of Women’s Studies vol. XXX, 2020: 107-148.

“Myths of Cleansing and Reclamation: The Politics of Inundation in TRESE: High Tide at Midnight,” Latag: Essays on Philippine Literature, Culture, and the Environment. Eds. Timothy Ong & Isabelle Lacuna. Philippines: Likhaan, 2019: 144-166.

“Communal Homes and Heterotopic Contagion in Trese.” Between, 8.15 (2018): n. pag. Web. http://dx.doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/3235

“Myth Museum: Synchronicity and Simultaneity as Conflicting Paradigms in TRESE.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature (March 2016), 5-16.

“Alternative Epistemologies in Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo’s TRESE.” Humanities Diliman (Jul-Dec 2016) 13:2, 1-25.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 30: Introduction to European Literature
CL 104: Literature and the Other Arts I
CL 112: The Novel
CL 122: Critical Approaches to Literary Criticism II
CL 133: Medieval and Renaissance European Literature
CL 134 – Modern European Literature
CL 135: Contemporary European Literature
CL 145: Literature of Japan
CL 171: Popular Literature
CL 241: Asian Literatures II
CL 285: Literary Translation
CL 371: Popular Literatures     
Eng 1: Basic English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: mgchua2@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Literary and Cultural Studies, 2017, Ateneo de Manila University
BS Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, minor in Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University

Research Interests: Ecocriticism, Philippine Literature, American Studies

Email: tfong@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Literature and Cultural Studies, 1997, Ateneo de Manila University

PUBLICATIONS

“Speaking of/for the IPs: Indigenous Peoples, the Limits of Literary Practices, and Possible Ways Out.” Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, vol. 1, issue 2, 2023, pp. 86-110, fass.nus.edu.sg/elts/journal-of-southeast-asian-ecocriticism/jseae1_2/.

“Mining and Mercury in Mt. Diwata Today.” Davao Harvest 3, edited by Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz, Macario D. Tiu and Tita Lacambra Ayala, University of the Philippines Mindanao, 2018, pp. 215-216.

“Apo on the Wall.” Mondo Marcos: Writings on Martial Law and the Martial Law Babies, edited by Frank Cimatu and Rolando B. Tolentino, Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2010, p. 180-181.

“While Waiting for a Jeepney to Go.” Davao Harvest 2, edited by Ricardo de Ungria and Tita Lacambra Ayala, National Commission on Culture and the Arts, 2008, p. 230-231.

“Haunted.” Tales of Enchantment and Fantasy, edited by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Milflores Publishing, Inc., 2008, pp. 39-43.

With Loredo, Ada J., and Rica Bolipata-Santos (co-editors). Sawi: Funny Essays, Poems & Stories on Youthful Heartbreaks, Milflores Publishing, Inc., 2007.

“A Death in the Opposite House.” A Different Voice: Fiction by Young Filipino Writers, edited by Vicente Groyon, UST Publishing House, 2007, pp. 165-179.

“Half-brother’s Portrait.” Father Poems, edited by Alfred Yuson and Gemino Abad, Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2004, p. 70.

“Decisive Moment,” Fast Food Fiction, edited by Noelle de Jesus, Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2003, p. 143-145.

“Missing an S,” Sleepless in Manila, edited by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Milflores Publishing, Inc., 2003, pp. 39-41.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 152: Philippine Regional Literatures in English Translation I
CL 153: Philippine Regional Literatures in English Translation II
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions

Email: bapatino@up.edu.ph

Professor

PhD Comparative Literature (Major in Literary Theory, Criticism and History), 2008, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA Comparative Literature (Major in Literary Theory, Criticism and History), 1997, University of the Philippines Diliman
Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature (Asian and Third World Literature ), 1992, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Philippine literatures, critical theory/criticism, Philippine dance

Email: rlpison@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

PhD Sociology, 2013, La Trobe University

Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Philippine Literature, Cultures of Consumption

PUBLICATIONS

“Mahal Kita.” Lucky Jefferson: Gibberish, Vol. 9, 2022, luckyjefferson.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Gibberish-Online.pdf. 

“Agosto sa Mindanao.” Lagda: Journal ng U.P. Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2021, pp. 20-22, www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/lagda/article/view/8147/7111. 

“Totipotency at isa pang tula.” Tomas, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 159-160, tomas.ust.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/10-Totipotency-at-Isa-Pang-Tula.pdf. 

“In Tiananmen.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 2019, asiancha.com/wp/article/joseph-t-salazar/. 

“Rethinking Filipino Masculinities: The Case of the Cosmopolitan Tambay.” Kritika Kultura, vol. 33/34, 2019, pp. 859-882, ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/12/124. 

“Of Malls and the Political Reorganization of Metro Manila.” Talas: Interdisiplinaryong Journal sa Edukasyong Pangkultura, Vol. 4, 2019, pp. 190-208, philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TALAS-4.pdf. 

“Paputian ng Kamalayan: Pananaliksik at ang Limot na Kasaysayan ng Pagiging Filipino.” Katipunan Journal ng mga Pag-aaral sa Wika, Panitikan, Sining at Kulturang Filipino, Vol. 1, 2016, pp. 1-15, journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/katipunan/article/view/KA2016.00107/2178. 

“Eating Out: Reconstituting the Philippines’ Public Kitchens.” Thesis 11, Vol. 112, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 133-146. SAGE Journals, journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0725513612452654. 

“Feudal Spectres on Philippine Television: Global Soaps and the Resuscitation of the Colonial Imaginary.” Pop Culture Formations across East Asia in the 21st Century: Hybridization or Asianization, edited by Doobo Shim, Ariel Heryanto, and Ubonrat Siriyuvasak, Jimoondang, 2010.

“Projections of An/Other Space: The Cities of Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas.” Are We Up to the Challenge? Current Crises and the Asian Intellectual Community: Proceedings of the 5th Asian Public Intellectuals Workshop, Tokyo, Nippon Foundation, 2007.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 40: Survey of Asian Literature
CL 50: Survey of Philippine Literature in English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: jtsalazar1@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Literary and Cultural Studies, 2023, Ateneo de Manila University
BA Comparative Literature (European literature), 2019, University of the Philippines Diliman 

Research interests: Philippine Literature in English, European Literatures in English and English Translation, Memory Studies, Gothic and Horror Studies, Tropical Studies

PUBLICATIONS

“The Tragedy of the Pineapple.” Longhand: The Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 22, no. 1, 2023. longhand.upd.edu.ph/2023/02/19/the-tragedy-of-the-pineapple/

“When You Love, Paper Burns.” Longhand: The Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, vol. 22, no. 1, 2023. longhand.upd.edu.ph/2023/07/07/when-you-love-paper-burns/

“Haunted Churches, Wicked Schools, Addressing Postcolonial History Through Philippine Horror.” Contemporary Horror on Screen, edited by Sarah Baker et al., Springer Singapore, 2023, pp. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4965-6_7 3.

“Bread, Hauntings, and Other Stories from a Tropical Place: Examining Heat and Temperature as Conduits for Place-Making in the Selected Fiction of Nick Joaquin and N.V.M. González.” Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023, pp. 39-51. fass.nus.edu.sg/elts/journal-of-southeast-asian-ecocriticism/jseae1_2/

“Escaping Paradise, Returning This Island: Representations of Siargao and Islandic Space in the Philippines.” Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia, edited by Jason Paolo Telles et al., Springer Singapore, 2022, pp. 333-348. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1130-9_20

“The Orchestra of Tremors and Other Poems.” Busilak: New LGBTQ Poetry from the Philippines, edited by J. Neil Garcia, University of the Philippines Press, 2020, pp. 122-133.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 113: Poetry
CL 122: Critical Approaches to Literature II
CL 123: Critical Approaches to Literature III
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 12: World Literatures
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking

Email: tdshaw@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Media Studies (Film), University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Film and Audio-Visual Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: literary criticism, intellectual historiography, media and film scholarship, performance curation, ethnographies of art production

Email: lrsonido@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

MA Araling Pilipino, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Southeast Asian Marxism, history from below, Indonesian literature, Philippine literature

Email: dcsy@up.edu.ph

Professorial Lecturer

PhD in English, 1998, National University of Singapore

Research interests: Southeast Asian literature in English, Asian literature in translation, Philippine-Chinese literature, Ecocriticism

Email: lrtope@up.edu.ph

Professor

Doctor of Education in Education Leadership, 2019, Development Academy of the Phils
AB English, 1985, University of the Philippines Diliman
MA CL, 1991, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Education Leadership, Adaptive Curriculum Design in an OBE context, Brain-Based Learning, Folklore, Field Methods

PUBLICATIONS

“In the Canted Shade of the Strawberry Tree.” Shiuli, no. 2, Winter 2023. shiuli.art/issue2/poems 

“Dis-Ease.”  Asian Studies Journal,  vol. 56, no. 2, 2020, pp.181-182. asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ_56_2_2020/16_Dis_Ease.pdf  

Silangan: An Anthology and Analysis of Folk Narratives of Silang, Cavite. National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2020.

“Responsive and Inclusive Education in the New Normal: A Case Study of Adaptive Curriculum Implementation in a Philippine Tertiary Education Classroom.” British Council-UNESCO, 2020. teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Rosella%20Torrecampo_DOI_v3.pdf. 

“Grieving in Quarters.” Let the Light In, edited by Sing Lit Station, Asia Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network,  2022, p. 271. 

Editor and Preface. “(H)Isablay.” Sablay, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 2021, pp. 11-17. 

“Dis-ease: Poetry in the Period of the Pandemic.” Journal of the Plague Year,  University of Arizona, May 2020. covid-19archive.org/s/archive/item/22639 

“Sibling Bonding and Other Value Structures  in the Erihiya of Silang, Cavite.” Social Science Diliman, vol. 4, no. 1-2, January-December 2007, pp. 36-77. journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/1237/1272 

“The Tropa’s Tropes:  An Ear for the Language (Recuperating Identity and Meaning from Language.” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, March 2005, pp. 79-120.  academia.edu/37123594/The_Tropas_Tropes_An_Ear_for_the_Language_recovering_History_and_Identity_from_the_Vernacular_ 

“Tropa: Homologies between the Folktale and Erihiya of Silang, Cavite.” Philippine Humanities Review, vol. 8, 2005, pp. 189-206.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 100: Introduction to Comparative Literature
CL 143: Southeast Asian Literature
CL 150: Literature of the Philippines from Earliest times to 1940
CL 170: Folk Literature
Cl 171: Popular Literature
CL 172: Children’s Literature
CL 201: Areas and Methods in Comparative Literature
CL 270: Folk Literature
CL 191: Approaches to Comparative Literature
CL 299: Research in Comparative Literature
CL 301: Seminar on Approaches to Comparative Literature
CL 370: Seminar in Folk Literature
Eng 1: Basic College English
Eng 11: Introduction to Literature
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 14: Introduction to World Literature
Eng 30: Writing for the Professions
Eng 133: Commonwealths Literature

Email: rmtorrecampo@up.edu.ph

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Philippine Literature in English
MA Education: Language Teaching, 2008, University of the Philippines Diliman
BA English Studies: Creative Writing, 1999, University of the Philippines Diliman

Research interests: Philippine Literature in English, Diasporic Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Postmodernity, Gender Studies

PUBLICATIONS

“Apostol’s Creed: Unveiling the Political Fictions of Colonialism and Nation in the Diasporic Novel.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol. 14, Issue 1, January-March, 2022, Pages 1–11.

21st Century Literature: Literature from the Philippines and the World. Quezon City: Rex Bookstore, 2022. 3rd Edition.

“Apostolship and Transformation: Hybridity and Solidarity in Gina Apostol’s Diasporic Novels.” The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture. Vol. 14.2. June 2021, Pages 61-86.

“The End of Tomorrow,” a short story in Dx Machina Vol. 1: Philippine Literature in the Time of COVID-19, A Special Issue of the Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature. Vladimier B. Gonzales, ed. Likhaan: The UP Institute of Creative Writing. Vol. 14, No. 2, 2020.

Purposive Communication: Communication for Society. Quezon City: Rex Bookstore, 2017. Co-authored with Dr. Ma. Lorena Santos. 2018. First Edition.

English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Co-authored with Grace Saqueton. Quezon City: Rex Bookstore, 2016. First Edition.

“Writing as Thinking: Piloting a New University Composition Course.” ACELT (Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching) Forum. Ateneo de Manila University. Vol. 9, 2015.

“Like Water for Chocolate: The Rewriting of the Female Experience and Its Parallels in Philippine History.” Humanities Diliman. University of the Philippines. Vol. 9, 17, Oct 2012.

“Grammar in the Real World: ESL/EFL Contexts.” Co-authored with Ada J. Loredo, ACELT (Ateneo Center for English Language Teacher) Forum. Ateneo de Manila University. Vol. 1, No. 2, 2007.

COURSES TAUGHT

CL 30: Survey of European Literature
CL 108: Literature and Gender
CL 111: The Short Story
CL 151: The Literature of the Philippines in English II CL 154: Philippine Women Writers in English
Eng 11: Literature and Society
Eng 13: Writing as Thinking
Eng 30: English for the Professions
Eng 106: Language Theory and Language Awareness

Email: mauychoco@up.edu.ph