Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

EDUCATION & RESEARCH

EDUCATION

  • B.A. Education, Pamantasang Lungsod ng Maynila, 1999
  • M.A. Education, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2007
  • Ph.D. Philippine Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2015 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Resistance literature and Marxist studies
  • Critical pedagogy and Testimonial writings
  • Diaspora and postcolonial theories