Academic Work

  • “‘Wild and Distrustful Children’: Building an Imagined Philippines During the Early American Colonial Period (1900s-1920s)”, International Research in Children’s Literature 18.3 (2025): 273–289. (published October 2025)
  • “‘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. (Published July 2024)
  • “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. (Published January 2024)
  • “Reading Decolonially in a Children’s Literature Classroom in the Philippines.” Teaching Equity through Children’s Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms. Eds. Gayatri Devi, Philip Smith, and Stephanie J. Weaver. Routledge, 2023.
  • “Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.” Comparative Critical Studies special issue: Postcolonial Speculative Literatures (Vol. 19, No. 3, Oct 2022), guest edited by Tasnim Quitat and July Blalack.
  • Round the Globe: Travel Routes of Children’s Literature, digital humanities project sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh’s Year of Engagement, original proponent
  • Southeast Asian Review in English Special Issue Vol 58. No. 1 (July 2021): Worldbuilding and the Asian Imagination, guest editor
  • “Dreaming Domesticity: The Migrant Workforce in Philippine Science Fiction.” SFRA Review Vol 51, No. 1 (Winter 2021).
  • “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.
  • Senior High School: English for Academic and Professional Purposes, authored with Marella Therese Tiongson and Christine V. Lao. Malaysia: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • “Every New Beginnings: An Essay on My Poetics.” Here and Now: Selected Poetics from the UP National Writers Workshop. Ed. Francis Paolo Quina. Quezon City: Likhaan: The University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. 2019.
  • “Imagined Worlds: A Fictocritical Exploration of Ecological Utopias.” Látag: Essays on Philippine Literature, Culture, and the Environment. Eds. Timothy Ong and Isabel Lacuna. Quezon City: Likhaan: The University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. 2019.
  • “A Return to Innoncence: Encountering the Numinous in Children’s Fiction by Cyan Abad-Jugo.” Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths, and Societies. Eds. Chi P Pham, Gurpreet Kaur, and Chitra Sankaran. Delaware: Vernon Press. 2019.
  • “New Media” Encyclopedia Entry. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art: Literature. Ed. Jonathan Chua. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. 2018.
  • “The Novel: 1990s to 2010s” Encyclopedia Entry. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art: Literature. Ed. Jonathan Chua. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. 2018.
  • Creative Writing for Senior High School, authored with Louyzza Maria Victoria Vasquez. Quezon City: Rex Bookstore, Inc. 2018.
  • Senior High School: Reading and Writing Skills. adapted with Timothy Ong and Ma. Ana Micaela Chua-Manansala. Malaysia: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • “Mix and Match: A Thematic Analysis of the Depictions of Alternative Family Arrangements In Philippine Children’s Picturebooks.” Journal of the Department of English & Comparative Literature, Vol 15, No. 1. Ed. Ma. Aubrey Villaceran et al. Quezon City: University of the Philippines. 2016.
  • “The Word of the Body: Depictions of Positive Body Image in Philippine Young Adult Literature.” Philippine Humanities Review Vol 18, No.1. Ed. Isabelita O. Reyes et al. Quezon City: University of the Philippines. 2016.
  • “A Balancing Act: Negotiating Relationships in Two Contemporary Young Adult Novels from the Philippines.” Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia, Vol. 4, No. 2., Eds. Cyan Abad-Jugo and Jonathan Chua. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 2014.