ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY

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FACULTY CV

Basic Information
ID Number: 15156
Name: ALVIN B. YAPAN
Birth Date: 23-OCT-1976
Home / Mailing Address: 12 Barcelona St. Ateneoville, Brgy Nangka, Marikina
City
Landline: 926-8730
Email Address: ayapan@ateneo.edu
Ateneo Group: VPLS
Loyola School: SOH
Department: FILIPINO
Years of Service: 14.31
Date Employed: 01-JUN-1998
Rank: AS-F5
Workload: F
Employment Status: Permanent

Education
Elem Cert, Naga Parochial School, 03-1989, Hon Mention.
HS Diploma, Ateneo de Naga University, 03-1993, Hon Mention.
BS Legal Management, Ateneo de Manila University, 03-1997, Hon Mention.
MA Literature, Ateneo de Manila University, 03-2000.
PhD Philippine Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 11-2010.

Teaching Experience

Research and Creative Work

Published Research
Alvin B. Yapan, "Feudal Desires: Sexualizing Agriculture in the Philippine Film Industry", Positions: East Asia
Cultures Critique, 19 (2011), 499-524.
Alvin B. Yapan, ed., "Burador", Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Nang Mauso ang Pagpapantasya: Isang Pag-aaral sa Estado ng Kababalaghan sa Telebisyon",
Plaridel: A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media and Society, 6 (2009), 37-52.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Matang Turista sa Pelikulang Pilipino", Plaridel: A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media
and Society, 3 (2006), 53-68.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Review of 'Barlaan at Josaphat: Modernisadong Edisyon ng Salin ni Fray Antonio de Borja,' ed.
Virgilio S. Almario.", Philippine Studies, 50 (2003), 579-580.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Review of 'Hagkus: Twentieth-Century Bikol Women Writers,' Paz Verdades M. Santos,
foreword by Teresita E. Erestain.", Philippine Studies, 51 (2003), 323-325.
Alvin B. Yapan, ed., "Hulagpos: Panitikan para sa Pag-aaral na Multi-disiplinaryo", Ateneo de Manila University
Press, 2003.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Contemporary Bikol Short Story as a Site of Struggle", Hingowa: The Holy Rosary Seminary
Journal, 3 (2000), 115-130.
Creative Works
Alvin B. Yapan, "Sambahin ang Katawan", Tapat: Journal ng Bagong Nobelang Filipino (2011).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Tauhan Niyang si Emil", Talong/ Tahong: Mga Kuwentong Homoerotiko, edited by Rolando
B. Tolentino, Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr., Joi Barrios, and Mykel Andrada (2011).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Sa Pagdurulag kan mga Manananggal", Sagurong: 100 na Kontemporanyong Rawitdawit sa
Manlain-lain na Tataramon Bikol, edited by Paz Verdades M. Santos and Kristian Sendon Cordero (2011).
Alvin B. Yapan, "An Syudad na Lalaki", Sagurong: 100 na Kontemporanyong Rawitdawit sa Manlain-lain na
Tataramon Bikol, edited by Paz Verdades Santos and Kristian Sendon Cordero (2011).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Pagtakas ni Jaime", Boracay: Sand in Shorts, edited by Karen Berthelsen Cardenas
(2008).
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Alvin B. Yapan, "Itong Kaputian ng Dalampasigan", Boracay: White Sand on Paper, edited by Karen Berthelsen
Cardenas (2008).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Aksidente", Latay sa Isipan: Mga Bagong Tulang Filipino, edited by Cirilo F. Bautista and Allan
Popa (2007).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Sandali ng mga Mata", Ateneo de Manila University Press (2006).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Birhen sa Paanan ng Buwaya", Philippine Studies: Mga Bagong Akda/ New Writing, edited
by Soledad S. Reyes, Vol. 53 Nos. 2 & 3 (2005).
Alvin B. Yapan, "At Nabulag ang Tagapagsalaysay", National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
UBOD New Authors Series 1 (2005).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Retrato", Kuwentong Siyudad, edited by Rolando B. Tolentino, Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr., and
Alwin C. Aguirre (2002).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Maitim na Kuwento ng Tore ng Babel", Creative Juices, edited by Susan P. Evangelista
(2001).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Bulaklak ng Heidelberg", Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento 2001, edited by
Domingo G. Landicho and Lilia Quindoza Santiago (2001).
Alvin B. Yapan, "Biyaheng Bikol - First Class", Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento 1996, edited by
Jun Cruz Reyes and Josephine C. Barrios (1996).
Fellowships
48th U.P. National Writer's Workshop (For Writers in Mid-career), Likhaan: The U.P. Insitute of Creative Writing,
12 Apr 2009 - 19 Apr 2009.
AILAP Workshop on Scriptwriting for Film and Television by Ricky Lee, Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and
Practices (AILAP), 21 Oct 2005 - 21 Oct 2005.
33rd U.P. National Writers Workshop (Theme: From the Margins), Likhaan: The U.P. Creative Writing Center, 20
Oct 1998 - 29 Oct 1998.
26th U.P. National Writers Workshop (Theme: Literature as History, History as Literature), Likhaan: The U.P.
Creative Writing Center, 8 Apr 1996 - 21 Apr 1996.
Professorial Chairs
Editorships
Paper/Research Presentations
Alvin B. Yapan, "The Oral in Philippine Visual Culture", Visual Cultures, Modernity and Society, 21 Jun 2011,
Social Science Building, Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Ateneo de Manila University.
Alvin B. Yapan, "The Oral in Philippine Visual Culture", Word, Image, Action: A Festival of Ideas on Popular Print
and Visual Cultures, 7 Jun 2011, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Paggamit ng Pelikula sa Pagtuturo ng Filipino", Ekonomiya at Teknolohiya ng Pagtuturo ng
Filipino: Mga Metodo, Estratehiya at Teknika, 8 May 2009, CSB International Convention Center, De la Salle
University, Manila.
Alvin B. Yapan, "On Futuristic Fiction and the Novel in Filipino", TABOAN: The Philippine International Writers
Festival 2009, 13 Feb 2009, Cubao X, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City.
Alvin B. Yapan, "The Aesthetic of the Meandering Camera: An Analysis of Three Filipino Independent Films",
2008 Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, 18 Nov 2008, Leong Hall, Ateneo de Manila University,
Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Alvin B. Yapan, "The Urban Road as Heterotopia in Lumbera's Poetry", Imaginary Geopolitics: Manila Urban
Space in Film, Poetry, and Pop Music, 30 Jan 2008, Thomas Aquinas Research Complex, University of Santo
Tomas.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Bagabag sa Aking Pagkukuwento", 2nd National Conference on Literature: Portraits of the
Filipino as Writer, Reader and Teacher (Theme: The Filipino as Writer), 16 Sep 2004, Escaler Hall, Ateneo de
Manila University.
Alvin B. Yapan, "The Culture of Technology in the Tagalog Short Story", Sangandaan 2003: An International
Conference on Arts and Media in Philippine-American Relations, 1899-2002 (Theme: Bivalent Inscriptions:
America in Tagalog Literature), 7 Jul 2003, Philippine Social Science Center, Quezon City.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Papel ng Wika sa Pag-uugat sa Tradisyon", National Conference of Young Writers and the
Literary Traditions (Theme: Young Writers and Literary Traditions), 27 Jan 2000, Bohol Tropics, Tagbilaran City,
Bohol.
Alvin B. Yapan, "Ang Paggamit ng Dekonstruksiyon sa Pagtuturo ng Panitikan", First Seminar in Teaching Bikol
Literature of NCCA and CHED, 4 Nov 1999, Pe?afrancia Resort, Naga City.
Alvin B. Yapan, "The Bikol Short Story as a Site of Struggle", Annual National Conference of National
Commission for Culture and the Arts (Theme: Young Writers and New Writing), 28 Jan 1999, Aniceto Mansion,
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Unpublished Research Works
Research and Creative Work Projects
Thesis Advised/Reviewed

Professional Experience
Consultancies
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Member of consultative body for the Planning Workshop of the Komisyon ng
Wikang Filipino, the office under the Office of the President tasked to oversee the promotion and legislation of
Filipino as the national language, 13 Feb 2013 - 15 Feb 2013.
Nielsen Media, Project Sagittarius: a structural study on 30 Filipino soap operas based on the theory of myth of
Claude Levi-Strauss., 1 Aug 2012 - 31 Oct 2012.
Professional Work and Practice
Seminars / Talks Given
Bakit Filipino?: A Forum on Teaching Filipino, Jesuit Basic Education Commission, 16 Feb 2013 - 17 Feb 2013.
Architecture and the Cinematographic Eye, United Architects of the Philippines in cooperation with National
Commission for Culture and the Arts, in celebration of National Architecture Week 2011 (Theme: Architecture
and the Allied Arts), 4 Dec 2011 - 10 Dec 2011.
From Print to Silver Screen: Transforming Literature into Movies, 2nd Manila International Literary Arts Festival,
16 Nov 2011 - 18 Nov 2011.
The Case of the Filipina Migrant Worker in the Film "Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe" (The Rapture of Fe), United
Nations Country Team in the Philippines through the U.N.-Gender Mainstreaming Committee's Work and Family
(How men and women share responsibilities to end Violence Against Women), 25 Mar 2009 - 25 Mar 2009.
Lipunan, Literatura, Pelikula, Social Sciences Department, Ateneo de Naga University, 28 Jan 2008 - 28 Jan
2008.
Sa Paghahanap ng Kahulugan ng Future Fiction, Heights, Ateneo de Manila University, 22 Jul 2005 - 22 Jul
2005.
Ang Impluwensiya ng Loob sa Panitikang Filipino, Samahang Pilosopiya Forum (Philosophy League Forum):
Philosophy and Literature/ Literature and Philosophy, 1 Dec 2004 - 1 Dec 2004.
Critique of Raniela P. Barbaza's paper entitled "Salin Bilang Resistance sa Pag-unlad ng Plosa (Korido) sa
Larangan ng Panitikang Bikol", Faculty of Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, University of the
Philippines, Diliman, 3 Aug 2003 - 3 Aug 2003.

University Service and Outreach

Standing Committees
Committee on Scholarly Work, 1 Apr 2010 - 31 Mar 2013.
University-Related Service
Chairperson, Department of Filipino, 3.00 units load, 1 Apr 2011 - 31 Mar 2014.
Acting Director, Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices , 1 Sep 2009 - 31 Dec 2009.
Member , Research Committee (SOH), 1 Nov 2008 - 30 Nov 2009.
Member, Research and Publication Committee (Loyola Schools), 1 Nov 2008 - 30 Nov 2009.
Outreach
Judge, Probe Media Foundation, Inc. (PMFI) and Philippine Center for Population and Development (PCPD)
Mulat Pinoy Video Contest: "We Are Right Here. We Are RH.", 2 Oct 2011 - 22 Oct 2011.
Judge , Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 1 Mar 2009 - 30 Sep 2009.
Workshops/Conferences/Seminars Attended
Speaker, 2011 Pansangay na Palihan ng Kaguruang Filipino, Sariaya East Central School, Sariaya, Quezon
Province, Sangay ng Quezon, Department of Education, 24 Jul 2011 - 24 Jul 2011.
Participant/Attendee, Team Textbook Review Workshop, DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City,
Department of Education, 6 Jan 2005 - 7 Jan 2005.
Participant/Attendee, Team Textbook Review Workshop, Richville Hotel 286 EDSA, Mandaluyong City,
Department of Education, 11 Nov 2004 - 12 Nov 2004.

Honors / Awards
Circulo Precolombino de Bronce Mejor Pelicula (Pre-Colombian Bronze Award for Best Film), "Ang Sayaw ng
Dalawang Kaliwang Paa", 28th Bogota International Film Festival, 18 Oct 2011.
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New Breed Category Finalist, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Music, "Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang
Paa", 7th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, 1 Jul 2011.
Outstanding Junior Teacher, Ateneo Schools Parents Council (ASPAC), 11 Feb 2011.
Award of Distinction, 1st Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) Indie Tribute, 16 Dec 2010.
Ani ng Dangal Award, Office of the President of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the
Arts, 26 Feb 2010.
Best Digital Feature Length Film, "Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe", 33rd Cairo International Film Festival, 20 Nov 2009.
Outstanding Bikolano Artist for Literary Arts 2009, Office of the Mayor (Naga City) Jesse Robredo, 29 Sep 2009.
Special Jury Prize, "Ang Panggagahasa kay Fe", 5th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, 1 Jul 2009.
2008 Distinguished Mayoral Awardee in the Field of Arts and Literature, Office of the Mayor (Pili, Camarines Sur)
Alexis D. San Luis, 22 Oct 2008.
Best Short Film, "Rolyo", Gawad Urian, Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, 1 Oct 2008.
Outstanding Scholarly Work Award, Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University, 14 Mar 2008.
Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel, "Ang Sandali ng mga Mata", Manila Critics Circle in cooperation with the
National Book Development Board, 31 Aug 2007.
National Book Award for Best Novel in the Vernacular Language, "Ang Sandali ng mga Mata", Manila Critics Circle
in cooperation with the National Book Development Board, 31 Aug 2007.
Best Short Film, "Rolyo", 3rd Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, 1 Jul 2007.
National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Writers Prize, "Sa Paghahanap ng Bagong Moda ng
Panlipunang Realismo: Isang Proyekto ng Labinlimang Kuwento", National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 24
Feb 2006.
Parangal Plumang Asul, Ateneo Institute of Literary Arts and Practices, 1 Jan 2005.
Third Prize, Futuristic Filipino Short Fiction, "Nostalgia", Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 1 Sep
2003.
Second Prize, Filipino Short Fiction, "Bomba", Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 1 Sep 2003.
Second Prize, Filipino Short Fiction, "Si Madonna, ang Bonsai, at mga Pagpapatiwakal", Sentrong Pangkultura of
the Daily Manila Shimbun, 1 Nov 2002.
First Prize, Futuristic Filipino Short Fiction, "Apokalipsis", Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 1
Sep 2002.
First Prize, Filipino Short Fiction, "Nang Gabing Mamatay ang Nana Soling", Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards
for Literature, 1 Sep 1997.

Affiliations
Professional Organizations
Network of Asian Fantastic Films, Bucheon, South Korea, Member Filmmaker, 22 Jul 2012 - 25 Jul 2012.
Technical Panels
Research and Discussion Groups
Civic Organizations

Course Materials

Others
Post-Doctoral Programs

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