Parallel Session 2
- Parallel session 2 is scheduled to be on Thursday, 13 November 2025 at 15.00-16.30 (GMT+7).
- Please select the room to view the list of presenters assigned in each room.
- The venue for this session is in the Faculty of Letters Building.
- The designated rooms are as follows:
- Room 1: S.202 (Second Floor)
- Room 2: S.203 (Second Floor)
- Room 3: S.302 (Third Floor)
- Room 4: S.303 (Third Floor)
- Room 5: S.304 (Third Floor)
- Room 6: S.305 (Third Floor)
Venue: S202, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Luisa L. Gomez
PANEL TITLE: Reimagining Islands, Forests, and Seas: Ecologies of Relation and Resistance in Philippine and Southeast Asian Imaginaries
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Glenn Diaz University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines | Privatizing Utopia: Knowledge, Capital, and the Forest in Rm Topacio Aplaon’s El Arbol De La Alegria |
| Ian Harvey A. Claros Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | Hurón, Húron: A Home Under Siege in Southern Philippines |
| Christian Jil R. Benitez Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines | Forests and Gardens, or Dreams of “Island” Pulling Away |
| Luisa L. Gomez Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | Tidal Relations: Archipelagic Thinking and the Oceanic Landscapes of Joar Songcuya, a Seaman-Artist |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Glenn Diaz University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines | Glenn Diaz is an associate professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests include creative writing, Philippine literature, and Marxist ecocriticism. |
| Ian Harvey A. Claros Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | Ian Harvey Claros teaches Philippine literature, language, and rhetoric at the Ateneo de Manila University. He led an Arete Sandbox Residency group that commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Typhoon Haiyan through grassroots and multi-sectoral podcast conversations in the Eastern Visayas. His research work deals with vernacular interventions in ecocritical studies that both resist and engage with their western construction. He recently published in Forum for Modern Language Studies (Oxford University Press), eTropic, and Kritika Kultura. |
| Christian Jil R. Benitez Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines | Christian Jil R. Benitez is a poet, scholar, translator, and educator from the Philippines. He teaches at the Department of Filipino, Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), where he earned his AB-MA in Filipino Literature. He recently finished his PhD in comparative literature at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. His first book, Isang Dalumat ng Panahon (A Theory of Time; ADMU Press, 2022) was given the Philippine National Book Award for Literary Criticism and Cultural Studies. His English translation of Arasahas: Poems from the Tropics was published by PAWA Press and Paloma Press. |
| Luisa L. Gomez Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines | Luisa L. Gomez is a faculty member of Ateneo’s Literary and Cultural Studies Program. She is interested in comparative literature, canon studies, and southeast asian literatures. |
Venue: S.203, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana
PANEL TITLE: Diasporic Women in the Global Landscape
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | The American Landscape and the Victorian Female Gaze in Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans |
| Rifka Alif Rahmasari, S.Hum. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Remembering, Writing, and Postcolonial Women’s Agency in Broideries by Marjane Satrapi |
| Poetry Salsabila Nurrania, S.Hum. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Hybrid Identities and the Postcolonial Digital Embodiment of Indonesian Women in Puri Viera’s YouTube Vlogs |
| Dinda Akhlakulkarimah, S.Hum. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Woman and Institutional Violence in Anatomie d’une Chute (2023) |
| Felisita Angelique Novena, S.S. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | The Negotiation of the Female Body in the Marhata Sinamot Ritual of Batak Toba Traditional Weddings |
BIONOTES
| Speaker | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Ari Jogaiswara Adipurwawidjana Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Ari J. Adipurwawidjana teaches literatures in English, critical theory, and theater at Universitas Padjadjaran (Unpad). His main academic interests include turn-of-the-century texts and their distribution through the publishing industry in the postcolonial framework, looking at how text production, technology, and global economy intertwine. At present, he is exploring the potentials of literature, theater, visual art, and digital technology in opening up new avenues for learning, writing (creative and academic), and social change and participation. He is a member of the Asian Shakespeare Association (ASA) and the International Shakespeare Association (ISA), as well as the Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA). At present, he is the Chair of the Unpad English Studies Program, and the Chair of the Unpad Prevention and Handling of Sexual Violence Task Force (Satgas PPKS Unpad) as well as a board member of the English Studies Association in Indonesia (ESAI). |
| Rifka Alif Rahmasari, S.Hum. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Rifka Alif Rahmasari is a final-year master’s student in Literary Studies whose work engages deeply with critical theory, decolonial feminism, and narrative analysis across cultural and textual contexts. Her research centers on the intersections of gender, narrative, and domestic space, engaging with decolonial feminism, postcolonial theory, and narratology. Through a close reading of women’s storytelling and material practices, Rifka explores literature as a site of embodied resistance and cultural negotiation. Her current thesis examines Broderies (2003) by Marjane Satrapi, analyzing how performative storytelling within domestic spaces becomes a means of negotiating identity, memory, and agency in the context of Islamic discourse and postcolonial womanhood. |
| Poetry Salsabila Nurrania, S.Hum. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | A Bachelor of English Literature graduate from Universitas Padjadjaran who is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Literary Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies. I have an interest in pursuing further studies in the fields of Digital Media, Gender, and Popular Culture. |
| Dinda Akhlakulkarimah, S.Hum. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Dinda Akhlakulkarimah is a postgraduate student in Cultural Studies, building on her background in French Literature. With a keen interest in media and its contemporary issues, she uniquely combines sharp communication skills with an entrepreneurial drive, seeking to translate academic insights into impactful initiatives. |
| Felisita Angelique Novena, S.S. Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | I am a master’s student in Cultural Studies and also a language teacher. My research focuses on culture under the influence of diaspora and urbanization. |
Venue: S.302, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Rukmini S.
SESSION TOPIC: Anthropocene & Climate Change in Fictions
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Christa I. De La Cruz De La Salle University, Philippines | Dáyo: Poetics of Travel and Tourism in the Anthropocene |
| Thangamani Ravichandran Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India | Overt and Covert Climate Fiction: Reading the Climate Crisis in Literature |
| Pim Puapanichya (online) University of Warwick, United Kingdom | Writing an Archipelagic World: Navigating the Mangrove Maze and Non-Human Agency on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| Yeni Yulianti National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia | No flowers No Gods: Environmental Imperialism in Orang Rimba, Jambi |
| Shreya Sharma & Payel Pal (online) The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India | Ecological Unconscious’ and Planetary Well-Being: Examining Rohan Chakravarty’s Comics |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Christa I. De La Cruz De La Salle University, Philippines | Christa I. De La Cruz is currently the Associate Editor of Esquire Philippines. She has over a decade of experience in writing and editing for travel and culture magazines, coffee table books, and lifestyle websites; and has published works of poetry and fiction in local and international literary journals. A Palanca award-winning writer, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from De La Salle University-Manila. |
| Thangamani Ravichandran Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India | Dr. T. Ravichandran is a Senior Professor of English at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. A distinguished scholar in literary and cultural studies, he earned his Ph.D. from Pondicherry University, receiving the Gold Medal for his work on postmodern identity. He began his academic journey at The American College, Madurai, where he won the A. V. Tilak Prize for academic excellence. Over three decades, he has made significant contributions to Postmodern Literature, Identity Studies, Posthumanism, and Anthropocene Literature. He has delivered invited lectures at premier universities in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Romania, Italy, and Poland. At IIT Kanpur, his innovative courses and widely followed NPTEL/MOOC offerings on Soft Skills have impacted over 59,000 learners. He has served in key academic roles, including Vice-Chairman of GATE and Chair of SUGC. He holds the Champa Devi Gangwal Chair Professorship, and was awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship at Duke University. |
| Pim Puapanichya (online) University of Warwick, United Kingdom | Pim Puapanichya (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. Her PhD thesis interrogates intertidal spaces and mangrove ecologies in postcolonial ecocritical literature in English. Focusing on contemporary literature from Asia-Pacific and Oceania, her doctoral research theorises through the materiality of mangroves microbiomes to understand the disruption of linear temporality, spatiality and discourses of (post)colonial historicity. Rooted between land and sea, her research understands mangroves as archives of history that negotiate these aqueous, fluid and shifting geographies of waterborne spaces. Her broader research interests include the EcoGothic, Petrocultures, Ecopoetics and Critical Island Studies/Archipelagic Studies. |
| Yeni Yulianti National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia | Yeni Yulianti is a researcher with a scholarly background in literature and culture. Her research career commenced at the Language Agency of the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2006, and in 2022, she became affiliated with the National Research and Innovation Agency. Her research interests include literature, culture, the environment, emergent literacy, and vulnerable communities. She can be contacted via email at yeni008@brin.go.id or yendes.ugm@gmail.com. Her commitment to research has significantly enhanced our understanding of the cultural and artistic dimensions of literature and storytelling. |
| Shreya Sharma (online) The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India | Ms Shreya Sharma is a research scholar at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, LNMIIT, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Her areas of interest include graphic narratives, epistemic (in)justice, South Asian popular culture, visual studies, and cultural studies. Besides presenting at various national and international conferences, she has recently published her articles in Current Writing, South Asian Review, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. She has also reviewed articles for Scrutiny 2, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature). Ms Sharma is currently a lifetime member of the Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI) and has served as a member of the Comic Studies Society (CSS). |
| Payel Pal The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India |
Venue: S.303, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Wigati Yektiningtyas
SESSION TOPIC: Anthropocene & Climate Change in Fictions
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Josephine Intan Candra Dewi, Dewi Widyastuti, & Catharina Brameswari Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Fostering Environmental Awareness and Preserving Cultural Heritage through EFL Creative Writing |
| Tran Tuan Minh (online) Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam | Displacement and Solastalgia in Mekong Delta Narratives: A Study of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư’s Short Stories |
| Purwanti Kusumaningtyas Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Indonesia | Ecofeminist Collaborative Learning for Environmental Preservation: The Case of Script Writing Class of SWCU’s English Literature Study Program |
| Richpearl Kaye A. Cajimat & MICHAEL Y. YACAS (online) University of Northern Philippines, Phillipines | Solarpunk Texts: Exploring Students’ Ecocritical Thinking through Critical Inquiry |
| Heribertus Adol Bastian P. Abul Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Songs of Crisis and Resilience: Musical Responses to Environmental Disaster in Contemporary Indonesia |
| Ning Huang (online) English Department, Siliman University, Philippines | A Study of Taoism in The Straw House |
BIONOTES
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Josephine Intan Candra Dewi Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | I am Josephine Intan Candra Dewi, a seventh semester undergraduate student in the English Letters Department of Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta. Currently I am 22 years old. My academic interests focus on English literature, creative writing, and gender studies. My current research explores how EFL student’s personal narratives in creative writing reflect their awareness towards environmental issues while preserving their local heritage. Outside of my academic life, I enjoy writing short stories, capturing fruitful moments through photography, cooking, and baking. |
| Dewi Widyastuti Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | |
| Catharina Brameswari Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Catharina Brameswari is a lecturer at Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She teaches literature courses with a focus on Digital Literature and Technology, Postcolonialism, Asian-American Studies, and Culture and Identity. Currently, she is conducting research on Axie Oh’s young adult novel, The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea, unveiling the main character’s struggle for gender equality. |
| Tran Tuan Minh (online) Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam | I am Trần Tuấn Minh, a third-year undergraduate student at the Faculty of Philology, Hanoi National University of Education (Vietnam). My academic interests center on modern and contemporary Vietnamese literature and modern Western literature. I focus particularly on diaspora studies, with attention to themes of displacement, identity, and cultural memory. I am also exploring health humanities as a complementary field, examining how narratives of illness and trauma shape literary expression. My approach combines literary analysis with cultural theory, aiming toward an interdisciplinary understanding of literature in transnational and cross-cultural contexts. |
| Purwanti Kusumaningtyas Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Indonesia | Purwanti Kusumaningtyas teaches at English Literature Bachelor’s Program, Faculty of Language and Arts, Satya Wacana Christian University. She is interested in comparative literature, diaspora literature, ecofeminism, and cultural studies in general. |
| Richpearl Kaye A. Cajimat (online) University of Northern Philippines, Phillipines | Richpearl Kaye A. Cajimat and Michael Y. Yacas are researchers from the University of Northern Philippines presenting their study, “Solarpunk Texts: Exploring Students’ Ecocritical Thinking Through Critical Inquiry.” Their work examines how solarpunk literature can enhance students’ environmental awareness and develop critical thinking skills through in-depth literary analysis. Combining their shared passion for literature, education, and environmental advocacy, they explore the power of imaginative narratives to inspire sustainable mindsets among learners. Their research reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches, merging creativity with ecological responsibility to address pressing environmental challenges through education. |
| MICHAEL Y. YACAS (online) University of Northern Philippines, Phillipines | Richpearl Kaye A. Cajimat and Michael Y. Yacas are researchers from the University of Northern Philippines presenting their study, “Solarpunk Texts: Exploring Students’ Ecocritical Thinking Through Critical Inquiry.” Their work examines how solarpunk literature can enhance students’ environmental awareness and develop critical thinking skills through in-depth literary analysis. Combining their shared passion for literature, education, and environmental advocacy, they explore the power of imaginative narratives to inspire sustainable mindsets among learners. Their research reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches, merging creativity with ecological responsibility to address pressing environmental challenges through education. |
| Heribertus Adol Bastian P. Abul Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Heribertus Adol Bastian P. Abul is a master degree student at the Faculty of Literature, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, focusing on postcolonial studies, multiculturalism, and ecocriticism. Under his stage name Herto Bastian Abul, he is also a musician and songwriter, creating works in Manggarai (Flores) language, Bahasa Indonesia, and English. His academic and artistic pursuits often intersect, exploring themes of cultural identity, environmental awareness, and the preservation of local narratives and languages. |
Venue: S.304, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Xu Lan
SESSION TOPIC: Feminist ecocriticism and literature
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Catharina Brameswari, Hellena Anastasia, Ni Komang Ayu Ristya Pramadani, & theresia enny anggraini Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Myth, Gender, and Resistance in Axie Oh’s The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea |
| Hazel Ann Cesa University of San Carlos, Philippines | Gendered Vulnerabilities and Care: An Ecolinguistic Study of Creative Nonfiction on Disaster by Women Writers from the Philippines |
| Ruthie Liza R. Lapinig (online) Jose Rizal Memorial State University-Tampilisan Campus, Philippines | A Feminist Ecocritical Analysis of the Lebon (Subanen Woman) in Subanen Folk Literature |
| Catherine Monica Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Ecofeminist Readings of Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk and Lawino |
| Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo & Bella Valencia Bawondes Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Catharina Brameswari Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | Catharina Brameswari is a lecturer at Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She teaches literature courses with a focus on Digital Literature and Technology, Postcolonialism, Asian-American Studies, and Culture and Identity. Currently, she is conducting research on Axie Oh’s young adult novel, The Girl who Fell Beneath the Sea, unveiling the main character’s struggle for gender equality. |
| Hellena Anastasia Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | I am currently undergraduate student majoring English Letters at Sanata Dharma University. I love to express things in writings, any subject do because I am curious about anything that I haven’t learn yet in literary. This year, active as part of English Letters Student Association. |
| Ni Komang Ayu Ristya Pramadani Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | |
| theresia enny anggraini Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia | |
| Hazel Ann Cesa University of San Carlos, Philippines | Hazel Ann Cesa is a junior faculty of the Department of Communications, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines, where she is also pursuing a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics. She was a contributor to the first edition of TUGKAD, a double-blind peer review journal of literary and cultural studies by the University of San Carlos Cebuano Studies Center, and Inklette Magazine, a not-for-profit, online literary magazine helmed by emerging artists and writers from all over. An emerging scholar of language, literature, and culture, she has presented her research at the 12th Literary Studies Conference at the Universitas Sanata Dharma, the 15th Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) Ritual Year Working Group Conference hosted by the University of the Philippines Diliman, and the 8th International Conference on Asian and Philippine Studies hosted by the De La Salle University. |
| Ruthie Liza R. Lapinig (online) Jose Rizal Memorial State University-Tampilisan Campus, Philippines | RUTHIE LIZA RILLERA-LAPINIG is an Assistant Professor IV at the College of Arts and Sciences, JRMSU-Tampilisan Campus, where she teaches Language and Literature subjects. She earned her Bachelor of Secondary Education, majoring in English, from Mountain View College in Valencia, Bukidnon, and her Master of Arts in Language Education from Central Mindanao University. She recently completed her Ph.D. in English, specializing in Literary Studies, at Silliman University, Dumaguete City. |
| Catherine Monica Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Indonesian MA student focusing on women, land, and power through ecofeminist literary readings. |
| Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | I am Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo, a student of Sanata Dharma University. A connection between myself and nature has been growing since I was a little child. Through personal experiences with nature, watching nature documentaries, and reading nature writings, I have been drawn into environmental discourse. I believe that the concern of today’s environmental discourse should be directed towards the extinction of environmental experience. With the restoration of environmental experience and experience in general, I am certain that a substantial improvement in the human-nature relationship can emerge. With hopes of contributing to this restoration, I present both of my works for this year’s LSC, titled: “Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime” and “Walking Through November, A Leopoldian Approach Against Ecological Absence”. |
| Bella Valencia Bawondes Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Hi. My name is Bella Valencia B, a graduate student of English Language Studies in Sanata Dharma University. Growing up from family who lives near the mountain and beach, I always have a fond towards nature and its beauty. There are so many things that nature has done to both me and my family, starting from providing us with tons of fish and herbs and giving us the fresh air everyday. Because of these reasons, I grow my interest into environmental discourse. In my opinion, although it is often getting advertise the idea of “saving the planet” and people might have heard it multiple times, the destruction towards nature remains the same. Yet, we cannot be pessimistic and stop to say, “nature needs to be saved”. What we need to do is to keep advertise nature and act upon it, so that some changes can happen. With that hope having in mind, I present my work in the paper, titled “Climate Un-Awareness, Heideggerian Averaging, and The Drowned Sublime”. |
Venue: S.305, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Shreya Sharma
SESSION TOPIC: Postcolonial & material ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Nurahmi Putri Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Ritual, Harvest and Resistance: Food and Cultural Ecology in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God |
| Hugo Sistha Prabangkara Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | The Empire of Flavour: Indomie and the Gastropolitical Standardization of Indonesian Cuisine |
| Lestari Manggong Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Rejection and Resistance: Ecocritical Perspectives in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian |
| Henrikus Joko Yulianto, M.Hum., Ph.D Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia | Petrodystopia in Contemporary Indonesian and Western Poetry: A Social-Ecological Vision in the Posthumanist Era |
| Joshua Lloyd L. Blas & Joveth Jay D. Montaña (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos | Beyond the Idyllic: Rethinking Island Ecology and Cultural Resilience in Balut Island |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Nurahmi Putri Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | She is currently taking Master’s Program in Literature |
| Hugo Sistha Prabangkara Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Hugo Sistha Prabangkara is a doctoral student in the Cultural Studies Program at Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. His research explores gastro-culinary culture as a complex intersection of food, power, identity, and politics, highlighting how these practices are embedded within broader socio-cultural and historical dynamics. Prior to his doctoral studies, he served as a research assistant and editor at the Realino Institute of Studies. Through an interdisciplinary and critical lens, his work aims to deepen the understanding of how food operates not merely as sustenance, but as a site of cultural meaning, political negotiation, and knowledge. |
| Lestari Manggong Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Dr. Lestari Manggong, M.A. is an Associate Professor at the English Studies Programme Universitas Padjadjaran. Her fields of expertise are in postcolonial, literary, narrative, and feminist studies. |
| Henrikus Joko Yulianto, M.Hum., Ph.D Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia | Henrikus Joko Yulianto is a teaching staff at the English Literature Study Program at Universitas Negeri Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. He earned his magister degree in English Language Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta and his doctorate degree in Poetics at University at Buffalo, New York. He is a member of ASLE, ASLE-ASEAN and Beat Studies Association. His research areas include American post-war poetry (Beat Generation & Black Mountain College) and environmental humanities. He has some book chapters published by Springer, Routledge and Lexington. |
| Joshua Lloyd L. Blas (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos | Joshua Lloyd L. Blas is a fourth-year student and emerging researcher in the Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies program at Mindanao State University – General Santos City, Philippines. His academic work engages with Decolonial Island Studies, postcolonial and material ecocriticism, and cultural ethnography. As a student-researcher, he advocates for centering marginalized voices in critical discourse, especially those from geographically isolated communities. Outside the classroom, Joshua is also active in the visual and performing arts, often integrating creative expression with his research on environment and culture. |
| Joveth Jay D. Montaña (online) Mindanao State University-General Santos | Joveth Jay D. Montana is a full time faculty member of Mindanao State University-General Santos, General Santos City, Philippines. His area of specialization is on Applied Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Philippine Linguistics, Syntax, Curriculum Studies and Cultural Studies. |