UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies

Fellows and Associates

AUGUSTO ANTONIO A. AGUILA, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is a fictionist. He is the author of The
Heart of Need and Other Stories (UST) and The Carnival of Hate: Stories (UST). He is Executive
Secretary to the UST Rector Magnificus, Professor of Literature at the UST Graduate School and
the Faculty of Arts and Letters, and Academic Consultant of ABS-CBN, the largest media
conglomerate in the Philippines.
His short stories and literary essays have been included in various publications, like Fast Food
Fiction Delivery 2, (Anvil), Mercy and Compassion: Pope Francis Blesses the Philippines (Anvil),
Esquire Magazine, Philippiniana Sacra, and Leap Plus magazine.

MA. AILIL B. ALVAREZ, CCWLS Resident Fellow and Director of the UST Publishing House, is the
author of Slivers of the Sky: Catholic Literary Readings and Other Essays (UST Publishing House,
2016), which is a finalist at the 2017 National Book Awards for Literary Criticism/Literary History
in English. Her critical essays and poems have been published in literary journals such as TOMÁS
and Dapitan. She was a writing fellow of the UST CCWLS Summer Writing Workshop, and the
UST Varsitarian J. Elizalde Navarro National Workshop for Arts Criticism. She is Assistant
Professor of literature and the humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Letters and a Research
Fellow of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities.

JOYCE ARRIOLA, CCWLS Resident Fellow and Director of the UST Research Center for Culture,
Arts and the Humanities (RCCAH), is a scholar and critic. She is the author of Postmodern
Filming of Literature: Sources, Contexts and Adaptations (UST Publishing House, 2006(UST),
which won the National Book Award for Film/Film Criticism; and of numerous papers read in
national and international conferences, and published in reputable national and international
journals, including the ISI-indexed Asia Research of the University of London School of Oriental
and African Studies. She is also the Full Professor of the UST Graduate School, and the Faculty
of Arts and Letters, and has won several awards, including the recipient of the Outstanding
Alumni Award of the UST Graduate School.
PAUL ALCOSEBA CASTILLO, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is the author of the poetry collections
Pananangan (LIRA, 2016) and Walang Iisang Salita (UST, 2018). He teaches Literature and Formatted: Font: Italic
Humanities at the University of Santo Tomas where he also finished his M.A. in Creative Formatted: Font: Italic
Writing. He won First Place for Poetry in Filipino in the 2018 Palanca Awards, and has also
received honors from the Talaang Ginto, Maninging Miclat Awards, and Gawad USTetika. He
was a fellow of the Iligan National Writers Workshop and the UST Creative Writing Workshop,
and the Palihang LIRA. His poems have been published in Ani, TOMÁS, Dapitan, and LIRA 30.

MICHAEL M. COROZA, Ph.D., CCWLS Associate, holds many awards under his belt, is Full
Professor at the Department of Filipino, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University,
handling graduate and undergraduate courses in Filipino Literature, Creative Writing, and
Literary Translation. He has won eight major prizes in the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards
for Literature for his poetry, essays, and stories for childrenincluding the Don Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for Literature, . He received the SEAWRITE Award from the Royalty of
Thailand in 2007, and the Ani ng Dangal Award from the NCCA in 2009. He was an Associate at
the Nida School for Translation Studies of the Fondazione Universitaria San Pellegrino in Misano
Adriatico, Italy. In 2016, he took a special post-doctoral course on the pedagogy of translation
at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Ottawa in Canada. Since
2012, he has held the Rev. Fr. Horacio de la Costa, SJ Endowed Professorial Chair in History and
Humanities at the Loyola Schools of ADMU. He received the 2016 Rev. Henry Lee Irwin, SJ
Memorial Teacher Award for the Humanities from ADMU and the UST 2016 TOTAL (The
Outstanding Thomasian Alumni) Award for the Humanities from the University of Santo Tomas.
He is concurrently the Chair of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) and the
National Committee on Language and Translation of the NCCA.

NESTOR CUARTERO, CCWLS Associate, is a veteran journalist and university lecturer. He has
published a book, At Large, At Leisure (UST Press), a collection of feature stories and essays, Formatted: Highlight
one of which won the grand prize in Instituto Cervantes' Premio de Periodismo in 2000. He won
the La Sallian Scholarum Award for Youth and Education Issues in Journalism in 2007. He
teaches under the Department of Media Studies at the University of Santo Tomas.

JOSELITO D. DELOS REYES, CCWLS Resident Fellow and Chair of the UST Department of
Literature and the Humanities, is a poet, fictionist, and essayist. He is the author of Paubaya
(UST), iStatus Nation (Visprint), Titser Pangkalawakan (Visprint), Troya: 12 Kuwento (Visprint),
and Finding Teo: Tula/Talambuhay (UST). He is also a winner of the NCCA Writer’s Prize for
Fiction, the National Book Awards for the Essay, and the Makata ng Taon from the Komisyon
ng Wikang Filipino.
He is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing in the UST Faculty of Arts and
Letters, and a Research Fellow of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities.

RALPH SEMINO GALÁN, CCWLS Assistant Director, is an Associate Professor of Literature, the
Humanities and Creative Writing in the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters. He has a B.A. in English
(Major in Literature), magna cum laude, from the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of
Technology and an M.A. in English Studies (Creative Writing) from UP Diliman. He is currently
pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature at the UST Graduate School. His a poet whose works poems in
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published in numerous national and international anthologies and literary journals. He is the
author of four books: The Southern Cross and Others Poems (NCCA, 2005), Discernments:
Literary Essays, Cultural Critiques and Book Reviews (USTPH, 2013), From the Major Arcana:
Poems (USTPH, 2014), and Sa mga Pagitan ng Buhay at Iba Pang Salin (USTPH, 2018).

NERISA DEL CARMEN GUEVARA, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is the author of Reaching Destination:
Poems and the Search for Home (UST, 2004). She holds an M.A. in English Studies major in
Creative Writing from UP Diliman. She is a featured Southeast Asian performance artist, and
documentations of her "Elegies" and "Infinite Gestures" are currently in the archives of The Live
Art Digital Agency (LADA) in London. Her most recent performance was Guevara has performed
at LAPSody at the Theatre Academy–University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland,d Grace
Exhibition Space in New York City, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Polytechnic University
of the Philippines, Bulwagan ng Dangal, and the Vargas Museum. Her works have appeared in Formatted: Strikethrough
the “Writing the Philippines” issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Writing Singapore and at
The Comstock Review in New York.

CRISTINA PANTOJA HIDALGO, CCWLS Director, has a a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UP
Diliman, an MA in English Literature meritissimus and a PhB magna cum laude from UST. She
has published more than forty books, most recent of which is Collected Stories & Tales (UST), a Formatted: Font: +Body (Calibri)
definitive compendium of her short fiction over the years. She has and won several national
awards, including the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for the Novel and the Gawad Balagtas from
the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL). She is also a Professor Emeritus of the
University of the Philippines, and has served as Vice President for Public Affairs of the UP
System, and as director of the UP Press, and the UP Creative Writing Center, and the UST
Publishing House. She continues to teach literature and creative writing courses at both UP and
UST.
DAWN LAURENTE MARFIL, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is the author of Looking for Polaris: A
Memoir of Losing and Finding, a memoirher first book. She graduated cum laude from UST with
an AB in Literature, and earned her MA in Creative Writing from UP Diliman where she is
currently working on her Ph.D. She was a fellow of the 3rd J. Elizalde Navarro National
Workshop for Arts Criticism in 2011 and at the UST Creative Writing Workshop,, 2012. She is an
Assistant Professor at the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters and is a Research Fellow of the UST
Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities.

JOSE P. MOJICA, CCWLS Resident Fellow, obtained his B.A. in Digital Filmmaking from De La
Salle-College of Saint Benilde and his M.A. in Creative Writing from the UST Graduate School,
where he is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Literature. He was a fellow of the UST National Writers’
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on Art and Cultural Criticism. He has directed and written short films, and has composed film color: Auto, Pattern: Clear

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UST Faculty of Arts and Letters.

NED PARFAN, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is the author of The Murmur Asylum (2014), a finalist for
the Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award, and Tilt Me and I Bend (2017), both published by
the UP Press. He finished his MFA from De La Salle University and is a Ph.D. student in Creative
Writing at UP Diliman. He has been His poems have been included published in High Chair,
Kritika Kultura, Likhaan, Philippines Free Press, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, and TOMÁS, among
others, and in the anthologies Crowns and Oranges, Sustaining the Archipelago, Under the
Storm, and The Achieve of, The Mastery. He teaches literature and creative writing courses in
UST and is a Research Fellow of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities.

CHUCKBERRY J. PASCUAL, CCWLS Resident Fellow and coordinator of the AB Creative Writing
program, is a fictionist, essayist, critic and scholar. He is the author of Kumpisal: mga kuwento
(UST), Pagpasok sa Eksena: Ang Sinehan sa Panitikan at Pag-aaral ng Piling Sinehan sa Recto
(UP), Ang Nawawala (Visprint), Ang Tagalabas sa Panitikan (2018UST), and co-author of Kolab
(UP Press). He has also authored one-act plays staged in the Virgin Labfest, and short stories
and critical essays published in various journals and anthologies. He is an Assistant Professor of
Literature and Creative Writing at the UST Graduate School and the Faculty of Arts and Letters,
and is a Research Fellow of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities. His
Ang Nawawala (Visprint) won the National Book Award for Best Book of Short Fiction in
Filipino.

MARIA LUISA T. REYES, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is Professor at the University of Santo Tomas
(UST) where she isthe UST Scholar-in-Residence, and Editor-in-Chief of UNITAS. In the Ateneo
de Manila University where she had been Full Professor at the English Department for many
years, sShe is also the founding editor and editor emeritus of Kritika Kultura. She is She
wrotethe author of Banaag at Sikat (2010), the award-winning book of literary criticism on the
first socialist novel in Asia of the same title, and SipatSalin (2012), a collection of her poems and
their translations in various foreign and local languages. Active as a member or officer of
various international organizations of scholars, she has founded an international network of
scholars working together toward undertaking collaborative research and publishing co-
authored works in literary and cultural studies especially on such topics as multiculturalism and
diaspora.

JOHN JACK G. WIGLEY, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is the author of five books: Falling into the
Manhole (UST, 2012), Home of the Ashfall (UST, 2014), Lait Chronicles (Visprint, 2016), Lait (pa
more) Chronicles (Visprint, 2017), and Hantong: Mga Kuwento (UST, 2018). He finished Ph.D. in
Literature cum laude (UST), won the Best Book (Gawad San Alberto Magno) in the 15 th Dangal
ng UST, and was a finalist in the 13th Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award. He has also co-
authored a number of textbooks on literature and creative writing. A former Director of the UST
Publishing House, he is an Associate Professor at the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters and a
Research Fellow of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities.

JOSELITO B. ZULUETA, CCWLS Resident Fellow, is an editor and editorialist of the Philippine
Daily Inquirer, where he also oversees the Arts and Books section. He has won the Rotary Club
Award for Journalism, the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, and the National
Book Award for History for The Saga of La Naval: Triumph of a People’s Faith. He is a former
chairman of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, and was a juror in several film festivals,
notably the Cinemalaya and Cinema One Originals. He was a Japan Foundation fellow to the
17th Tokyo International Film Festival and a British Council fellow to the Cambridge Seminar on
Literature. He is also a former chairman of the National Committee on Literary Arts (NCLA) of
the NCCA, current national secretary of the Philippine Center of the International PEN., and a
member of the Committee on Literature Education of CHED. He teaches journalism, literature
and film theory in UST and is the adviser of The Varsitarian.