Parallel Session 4
- Parallel session 4 is scheduled to be on Friday, 14 November 2025 at 10.00-11.30 (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)
- Room 7: S.307 (Third Floor)
Venue: S.202, Second Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Chi P. Pham
PANEL TITLE: Vietnamese Narratives of Animals: Voices and Gazes
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Chi P. Pham (online) Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences | Myth and Animal Resistance in Vietnamese Animal Stories: Case of “Raw Fish” and “Giát Market Day” |
| Hoang Thi Quynh Trang Phú Xuân University, Vietnam | The Educational Lessons in Tô Hoài’s Stories for Children |
| Kieu Minh Hung (online) University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Vietnam | Postcolonial ecocriticism in Vietnam: Surveying the short stories of Bùi Ngọc Tấn and Nguyễn Quang Thân |
| Nguyen Thuy Trang (online) University of Education, Hue University, Vietnam | The Fate of Animals During the Pandemic: Reflection and Metaphor in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature |
| Le Thi Huong Thuy (online) Vietnam | Perceptions of water: presentation in contemporary Vietnamese literature (survey of the case of Nguyễn Ngọc Tư) |
| TRINH Dang Nguyen Huong (online) Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam | Floods through the Eyes of Children: Responses to the Natural Disaster in Nguyễn Nhật Ánh’s Children’s Literature |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Chi P. Pham (online) Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences | Associate Professor Chi Pham (Ph.D) is a researcher at the Institute of Literature in the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside (USA). Her dissertation, her researcher articles and conference presentations delve examine Vietnamese literature and politics. Of late, Chi has become increasingly interested in the field of literature and environment. |
| Hoang Thi Quynh Trang Phú Xuân University, Vietnam | |
| Kieu Minh Hung (online) University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Vietnam | I’m just still a undergraduate student but i intend to study more in this literary field. Hope to have your feedbacks. |
| Nguyen Thuy Trang (online) University of Education, Hue University, Vietnam | Nguyen Thuy Trang (PhD) is a Lecturer at College of Education, Hue University in Vietnam. She has an MA and PhD in Vietnamese Literature from Hue University of Education. Her research interests are Vietnamese literature and culture, Comparative literature, Ecocriticism, Intertextuality, Feminism, Existentialism, Postmodernism, Semiotics, Post-anthropocentrism, and Posthumanism. |
| Le Thi Huong Thuy (online) Vietnam | Le Thi Huong Thuy is a researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. She received her PhD in 2014, majoring in Vietnamese literature. She has published the work Contemporary Vietnamese Short Stories: Process and Dynamics (2019). She has published research related to contemporary Vietnamese literature, ecocriticism and gender studies in literature |
| TRINH Dang Nguyen Huong (online) Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam | TRINH Dang Nguyen Huong (MA) is a researcher in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Literature at the Institute of Literature (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences). Her primary research interests include children’s literature and contemporary Vietnamese literature. She is the author of a monograph on children’s literature titled Trình hiện tuổi hoa: Một số thể nghiệm tiếp cận văn học thiếu nhi (Presenting the Bloom of Youth: Some Experimental Approaches to Children’s Literature) (2025). Additionally, she co-authored Văn học Việt Nam trong bối cảnh đổi mới và hội nhập quốc tế (Vietnamese Literature in the Context of Renovation and International Integration) (2016), Từ điển tác phẩm văn xuôi Việt Nam từ năm 2000 (Dictionary of Vietnamese Prose Works from 2000) (2018), Văn học đại chúng trong bối cảnh văn hoá Việt Nam đương đại (Popular Literature in the Context of Contemporary Vietnamese Culture) (2020), among others. She has also published numerous articles in specialized journals and newspapers on children’s literature and child education. |
Venue: S.302, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Natalia Santos
SESSION TOPIC: Anthropocene & Material ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Rupeng Chen (online) University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Remaindered Words of Fire: Mahua Modernism as Pyric Aesthetics |
| Zawiah Binte Mohamad Rasep National University of Singapore, Singapore | Ingesting Divinity: The Emergence of Anthropocentricism through Mythopoeic Perspectives |
| Jessa A. Amarille University of the Philippines Tacloban College, Philippines | Writing Local History and Reimagining Home Post Disaster: A Reading of Dinah Roma’s Weaving Basey (A Poet’s History of Home) |
| Yuliana Meneses Orduño Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Nurturing Ecological Correspondendes: Practices of Coexistence Based on Ecocriticism and Transdiscipline |
| Tran Ngoc Hieu Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam | The Discourse of Human Dwelling in the Anthropocene Epoch in The Tree House (2019) by Truong Minh Quy |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Zawiah Binte Mohamad Rasep National University of Singapore, Singapore | Zawiah is a fourth-year PhD candidate from the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at National University of Singapore. Her research fields include environmental humanities and Southeast Asian literatures, particularly from the Malay Archipelago. Her doctoral research project explores the intersection between premodern Malay mythopoeic philosophy, culture, and the interplay of human mediation with the more-than-human world. |
| Jessa A. Amarille University of the Philippines Tacloban College, Philippines | Jessa Amarille is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Humanities, University of the Philippines Tacloban College, where she teaches communication and literature courses. She holds a BA in Communication Arts from UP Tacloban and an MA in English Studies (Anglo-American Literature) from UP Diliman. Her research interests include Chicana literature, Waray literature, ecopoetry, and ecocriticism. |
| Yuliana Meneses Orduño Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Yuliana Meneses Orduño Artist & Cultural Scholar With academic degrees from UNAM and a foundation in contemporary, Butoh, and classical Indian dance, Yuliana bridges embodied practice and scholarship. She studied Javanese dance at ISI Surakarta under the Darmasiswa scholarship and is now pursuing a Master’s in Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University under the KNB program. Her projects include founding Body Experiences (BE)—a platform for community-based arts research—and ECOrrespondences, which links dance, ecology, and indigenous knowledge. Yuliana emphasizes embodied methodologies to reimagine coexistence and relational ecology in diverse cultural contexts. She has presented her work in residencies and performances across Mexico, Japan, and Indonesia, advocating for bodily knowledge as a critical tool for environmental and intercultural awareness. |
| Tran Ngoc Hieu Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam | Tran Ngoc Hieu has worked as a lecturer at Hanoi National University of Education since 2001. He has contributed to some edited volumes such as Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, and Prospects, ed. John Charles Ryan (Lexington Books, 2018); Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia, ed. Jason Paolo Telles, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, John Charles Ryan (Springer Singapore, 2022); The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, ed. Jeremy Tambling (London: Palgrave, 2022); Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries, ed. Ignasi Ríbo (Lexington Books, 2025). |
Venue: S.302, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Emma Luana Sophie Lengkong
SESSION TOPIC: Climate change and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Neneng Sri Wahyuningsih (online) Universitas LIA, INDONESIA | Climate Fiction and AI Translation: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Zulfi Zumala Dwi Andriani Universitas KH Mukhtar Syafaat, Indonesia | Ecocritical Analysis of Environmental Destruction and Climate Change in Jostein Gaarder’s “The World of Anna |
| Maryanne R. Moll University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines | The Dark Garden: The Failed Promises of Post-Martial Law Philippines And The Power of the Ecofeminine in Reine Arcache Melvin’s Novel The Betrayed |
| Tirzah Zubeidah Zachariah (online) Universiti Selangor, MALAYSIA | A Taste of Satire in ‘Beans without Kor Kor’ |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Neneng Sri Wahyuningsih (online) Universitas LIA, INDONESIA | Lecturer in the English Department at Universitas LIA, Jakarta, teaching since 2004. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Education from Universitas Negeri Jakarta (2002) and a Master’s degree in Linguistics with a specialization in Translation from Universitas Indonesia (2011). Currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Linguistics (Translation specialization) at Universitas Indonesia. Actively participates in various localization and translation activities and organizations, both in Indonesia and internationally. |
| Zulfi Zumala Dwi Andriani Universitas KH Mukhtar Syafaat, Indonesia | Currently, I am living in pesantren community in Banyuwangi and also teaching in University based Pesantren. My concern is English literature and English Education |
| Maryanne R. Moll University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines | Maryanne Moll has written four books. Her first book, Awakenings (2001), and her second book, Little Freedoms (2003), are both collections of essays. Her third book, Married Women (2014), is a short story collection and was a finalist for the Cirilo F. Bautista Prize for Best Book of Short Fiction in English during the 33rd National Book Awards of the National Book Development Board. Her fourth book, The Maps of Camarines, is also her first novel, and was released in 2023. She has a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and has also won the Best Thesis Award for her thesis that earned her the Degree. |
| Tirzah Zubeidah Zachariah (online) Universiti Selangor, MALAYSIA | Tirzah Zubeidah Zachariah, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Selangor, Malaysia. Her teaching career started in 1998 after graduating from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1998 with a B.ed TESL. Since then, she has taught in a secondary school and four higher education institutions in Malaysia. She was awarded a scholarship in 2010 and she successfully graduated with a Phd in English Studies from Stirling in 2017. Currently she teaches TESL trainees in the Language Education Department of the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, UNISEL. Her research interests are postcolonial literature, translation, language acquisition, teacher training and technology adoption in education. |
Venue: S.303, Third Floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Gabriel Ephifanio Suwanto
SESSION TOPIC: Postcolonial ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Maria Vincentia Eka Mulatsih Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Ecological Reading of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl from The Coast |
| Tammy Angeline S. Macalma (online) University of Santo Tomas, The Philippines | The Sun, the Moon, and the Wormholes: Exploring Ecological Imperialism in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon |
| Thomas Leonard D. Shaw University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines | Tropes, Tropics, and the Uncanny: Ecocritical Reflections on Select Philippine Short Stories |
| Yosafat Andrew Gabrian Kameo Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Walking Through November: A Leopoldian Approach Against Ecological Absence |
| Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (online) East West University, Bangladesh | The Role of Narrative behind Planetary Crisis: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Maria Vincentia Eka Mulatsih Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Maria Vincentia Eka Mulatsih has been teaching some courses on literature such as Introduction to Literature, Prose in English Language Teaching, Drama, Poetry, and Play Performance at Sanata Dharma University since 2015. She graduated from Gadjah Mada University majoring in Literature for her bachelor and master degrees. She can be reached at mv_ika@usd.ac.id |
| Tammy Angeline S. Macalma (online) University of Santo Tomas, The Philippines | Tammy Angeline S. Macalma is an undergraduate Literature student at the University of Santo Tomas. She is a fan of Pokémon and postcolonial ecocriticism. |
| Thomas Leonard D. Shaw University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines | Thomas Leonard Shaw is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman. His work includes an essay on Philippine horror cinema featured in the anthology Contemporary Horror on Screen (Springer), as well as ecocritical essays on film and fiction, and a number of poems. He has forthcoming publications on Philippine Gothic literature, horror in podcasts and storytelling, and the precarities of cultural remembering. His research interests include—but are not limited to—Gothic and horror studies, memory studies, and Philippine literature. |
| 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”. |
| Md Abu Shahid Abdullah (online) East West University, Bangladesh | Md Abu Shahid Abdullah completed his PhD in English literature from University of Bamberg, Germany. He is currently an Associate Professor in English at East West University, Bangladesh. He has presented over 50 research papers at different international conferences. His first book Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels: Speaking the Unspeakable and his second book Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK in 2020 and 2022 respectively. His third book Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic, was published by Vernon Press, USA in 2024. Dr. Abdullah’s latest book Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives has been published by Exceller Books, India in November, 2024. |
Venue: S.304, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Arifah Arum Candra Hayuningsih
SESSION TOPIC: Water and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| M.A Nguyen Thi Dieu Khanh (online) Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam | Forest Symbolism in The Relationship between Nature and Culture: A Study in The Oral Traditions of Ethnic Groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam |
| Benedicta Angie Azaria Prasetyo Rahayu, Raden Roro Rachma Amalia Putri, & Jardin Urbania Basundoro Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Perceiving the Monsters’ Portrayal of Scottish Kelpie and Indonesian Baru Klinting Folklores Through the Lens of Material Ecocriticism |
| Sanchar Sarkar Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India | Agency of the Indian Ocean: Marine Ecocriticism in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali Nautical Fiction |
| John Meir A. Meñoto (online) Mindanao State University- General Santos, Philippines | Resilient Waters: Examining Coastal Livelihoods and Environmental Challenges through Personal Narratives of Fishers in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat |
| Lily Rose Tope University of the Philippines, Philippines | Challenging Dominant Cultural Narratives through Animal Myths in Two Southeast Asian Stories |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| M.A Nguyen Thi Dieu Khanh (online) Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam | M.A. Nguyễn Thị Diệu Khanh is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philology and a literature teacher at Nguyễn Tất Thành Lower and Upper Secondary School, Hanoi National University of Education. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Vietnamese folklore. Her research integrates folklore studies and educational science, with a particular interest in the role of folklore in modern general education. M.A Nguyễn Thị Diệu Khanh is the author and co-author of several academic publications on curriculum design, theories and methods of teaching, and reference materials for literature instruction in general schools. |
| Benedicta Angie Azaria Prasetyo Rahayu Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Benedicta Angie Azaria Prasetyo Rahayu is a third year undergraduate student majoring in English Language and Literature at Universitas Gadjah Mada. Her research interests include cognitive analysis, corpus methodologies, critical discourse analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches in storytelling, children’s literature, and folklore. She is currently exploring language use in educational frameworks, particularly in the intersection of cultural representation and early childhood education. |
| Raden Roro Rachma Amalia Putri Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Raden Roro Rachma Amalia Putri is a senior year student at English Literature, Universitas Gadjah Mada, who is highly interested in sociolinguistics, particularly code-switching and linguistic landscapes, children’s literature, folklore studies, and aims to further expand her work across interdisciplinary studies. Her current research examines the intersections of language, culture, and environmental narratives in literary and educational contexts, especially in children’s literature and folklore. |
| Jardin Urbania Basundoro Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia | Jardin Urbania Basundoro is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in English Literature. Her academic interests include postmodern and contemporary literature, ecocriticism, folklore, and children’s literature. She is currently working on her undergraduate thesis, which explores narrative identity in a graphic novel with an approach that merges literary analysis and interdisciplinary perspectives. Jardin is particularly drawn to how stories, especially in visual and folkloric forms, shape human relationships with the environment. Outside of her academic work, she runs a translation service, focusing on English-Indonesian and Indonesian-English texts in literary and academic contexts. |
| Sanchar Sarkar Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India | Sanchar Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of English at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering. He has completed his PhD in English (Environmental Humanities: Science Fiction, Climate Change and Postmodern Environments) from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) in 2024. His area of research focuses on the intersection of literature and the environment with a particular emphasis on the representation of planet earth and climate change through the lens of contemporary American science fiction. He engages with the aspects of climate change and postmodern environments through the interdisciplinary frameworks that incorporate diverse domains like the theory of ecocriticism, geography and Anthropocene studies. He has published his research articles on topics like “The Carbon Coin”, “Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary”, “Pandemic Science Fiction and Epidemiology”, “Premonition Ecology” and “Eco-Architecture” in international peer-reviewed journals like Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (SCOPUS), eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics (SCOPUS), Interlitteraria (WEB OF SCIENCE), International Journal of Fear Studies (PRISM-University of Calgary) and IIS University Journal of Arts (UGC-CARE, INDIA). |
| John Meir A. Meñoto (online) Mindanao State University- General Santos, Philippines | He is John Meir A. Meñoto a fourth year student of Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies in Mindanao State University- General Santos City, Philippines. A dedicated student and emerging researcher with a passion for academic inquiry and community-focused studies. His research interests include social issues, environmental sustainability, and cultural identity. He is committed to using research as a tool to promote awareness, drive change, and contribute meaningful insights to both academic and local communities. |
| Lily Rose Tope University of the Philippines, Philippines | Lily Rose Tope is Professor Emeritus and former Chair at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines, Diliman. She has a PhD from the National University of Singapore. She has written various articles on Southeast Asian literature in English, Philippine Chinese literature and Philippine literature in English. She is one of the Vice Presidents of ASLE ASEAN and one of the editors of Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism. |
Venue: S.305, Third floor, Faculty of Letters Building
Moderator: Yoseph Bavo Agung Prasaja
SESSION TOPIC: Media/film and ecocriticism
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Celine Nugrahani Prabowo Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Kinipan: Silenced Resistance of The Dayak Tomun Amid Collapse of Nature |
| Joselito D. De Los Reyes University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | ECO-REEL for ECO-REAL: Narratives and Challenges of Eco-Critical Influencers and Content Creators in the Philippines |
| Mark Louis P. Hernandez & Joveth Jay D. Montaña (online) Mindanao State University General Santos, Philippines | Animating Ecology: Environmental Narratives and Human-Nature Interactions in Studio Ghibli Films |
| Florencia (online) Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Plants vs Horrors: A Phyto-criticism of Plants in Indonesian Horror Cinemas |
| Alexandra Francesca A. Bichara University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines | Unsettling Identity: Nonhuman Becomings in Clarissa Militante’s State of Happiness (2022) |
BIONOTES
| SPEAKERS | BIONOTES |
|---|---|
| Celine Nugrahani Prabowo Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | |
| Joselito D. De Los Reyes University of Santo Tomas, Philippines | JOSELITO D. DE LOS REYES, Ph.D., chairperson of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Creative Writing department, is a poet, fictionist, essayist, translator, and columnist. De Los Reyes won the NCCA Writer’s Prize for his fiction, the Philippine National Book Awards for his books of essays, the Philippine National Book Awards, the Philippine Readers’ Choice Awards for his books on creative nonfiction. He has a BSE in Social Sciences from the Philippine Normal University in Manila. He obtained his master’s and doctorate in Philippine Studies from De La Salle University. He regularly contributes popular culture and new media opinion for newspapers Abante and Rappler. He maintains a weekly pop-culture radio program for DWAR Abante Radyo in Manila. As a professor, De Los Reyes teaches writing for new media, seminar in new media, and creative nonfiction at the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters and the UST Graduate School. |
| Mark Louis P. Hernandez (online) Mindanao State University General Santos, Philippines | Mark Louis P. Hernandez is a fourth-year student at Mindanao State University – General Santos, pursuing Bachelor of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies. His academic interests lie at literature, animation, and nature. He is interested about exploring films, digital media, and literary texts that engage with nature and environmental issues. |
| Joveth Jay D. Montaña (online) Mindanao State University General Santos, Philippines | 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. |
| Florencia (online) Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia | Indonesian MA student focusing on women, land, and power through ecofeminist literary readings. |
| Alexandra Francesca A. Bichara University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines | Alexandra A. Bichara is a PhD Comparative Literature candidate at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research explores Philippine literature through ecocriticism, critical animal studies, and ecofeminism. At the heart of her work is a commitment to ecological and cultural justice, with particular attention to the lives and representations of nonhuman animals. |