Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Moratilla

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CREATIVE WRITING

2023. "AI Apocalypse." Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 72
2021. "Of Borders." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 57 (2): 203–205
2021."ina/mother." Anak Sastra 44: 34
2020. "Gwangju Blues." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 56 (2): 173–74. 
2020. “Pinoy Patriot no. 1.” Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 56 (1): 148
2020. “Gwangju Blues Reprise,” Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 52
2018. “Ode to Self as Passenger," “In Medias Res,” and “Solitude.” Diliman Review  62: (1) 92–95
2017. "Impression." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 53 (2): 122–23.

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Book Reviews

2019. "The Prisoner as Testimonialista: A Book Review of Bobby V. Villagracia’s Selda Dos (Manila City Jail)." Plaridel 16 (1, June): 235–40.
2016. Book review of Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future by Henry Giroux. The Scholastican Journal 4.

Essays

2018. "Recognizing the Exploited and Marginalized: ASEAN Integration and Critical Education." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 53 (2): 103–07.
2013. Continuing dissent: Reflecting on my paper on the disappeared. Insights, St. Scholastica’s College Manila, 14.
2013. On research, narratives, marginality, and hope. Insights, St. Scholastica’s College Manila, 15.
2013. Pedagohiya, testimonio, at ang karanasan ng mga guro. Insights, St. Scholasticas College Manila. 16.

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BOOK

2020. Abject Bodies. [In Korean]. Gwangju: Asia Culture Center.
2019. 2018 Philippine Development Report, edited by Joefe B. Santarita and Noel Christian Moratilla. Hainan: Hainan Normal University, China.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2022. "Talakayang Panel Hinggil sa Philippine Studies ng mga Akademikong Institutsyon." In Hugpungan: Katutubong Kaalaman at Interdisiplinaridad sa Panahon ng Krisis, 343-80. PUP Center for Philippine Studies. (Co-authored with Mary Jane Rodriguez-Tatel, Marvin G. Lai and Rowell D. Madula).
2022. " Ang Loob Bilang Labas: Isang Pagbasa sa Selda Dos: Manila City Jail ni Bobby V. Villagracia." In Taong Labas: Ang Tulisan, Remontado, at Vagamundo sa Kasaysayan at Kalinangang Pilipino, edited by Jeffrey M. Ligero, Edna M. Manginsay and Josel S. Regalar, 345-62. ADHIKA ng Pilipinas, Inc. and National Commission for Cultura and the Arts (NCCA).
2020. "Toyota Motors Philippines Foundation: Championing Social Upliftment and Nation-Building through Public Service." In Toyota in the Philippines: 30 Years and Beyond in Nation-Building, edited by Joefe B. Santarita, 19–28. Quezon City: Toyota Philippines and Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.
2019. “Marxism: Culture, Class, and Ideology.” In Breaking Walls: A Collection of Literature Teaching Modules, edited by M.T. Wright, M.J. Duque, V. Groyon, and T.S. Simon, 153–57. Manila: DLSU Department of Literature.
2019. "Introduction: Problematizing Philippine Development.”  In 2018 Philippine Development Report, edited by Joefe B. Santarita and Noel Christian Moratilla, 1–8. Hainan: Hainan Normal University, China (Co-authored with Joefe B. Santarita).

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Journal Articles

2025. "Subjugated voices: a critical ethnography of street life and homelessness in Manila." Critical and Radical Social Work: An International Journal 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20498608Y2025D000000112
2024. "Struggling with memory: anguish and hope in selected pandemic poems by migrant workers in Singapore." Frontiers in Sociology 9 (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1501520. 
2023. "Fugitive Witnessing: Stories of Indonesian Migrant Workers." Social Science Forum 39 (102): 85–103. DOI: 10.51936/dr.39.102.15-36. 
2021. "Hagiographic Counterimaginary: The Case of Pasyong Rizal." The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies 19 (1): 25–40. DOI:10.18848/2327-0055/CGP/v19i01/25-40.
2020. "Theologizing Literature: Reading the Poems of Kim Chi Ha and Amado Hernandez through the Lens of Liberation Theology." Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 19 (57): 210–24.
2019. “Occluded Histories: Philippine Labor After EDSA.” Philippine Political Science Journal 40 (1–2): 3–31.
2019. “Revisiting Paulo: Critical Pedagogy and Testimonial Narratives in the Philippines K-12 Curriculum.” Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 17 (2): 246–78.
2018. "The Migrant Worker as Disposable Body: Testimonial Narratives from a Nongovernment Organization." Humanities Diliman 15 (2): 38–61. 
2018. "Exotifying Bodies: Self-Flagellation, Abjection, and Social Memory." Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 10 (3): 149–57.
2013. Kontra-Diskurso: Testimonial Narratives of Filipino Workers in a Foreign Company. Humanities Diliman 10 (1): 44–63
2013. Narrativizing marginality and hope: Testimonial narratives of students in a night school.  The Scholastican Journal 3.
2012. Voicing resistance: Testimonial narratives of the families and friends of the disappeared. Philippine Humanities Review 14 (1). 
2012. Education and resistance: Testimonies for critical pedagogy and literacy. The Scholastican Journal 115–36.
2012. Transgressive bridging: Critical pedagogies and Philippine Studies. Dalumat 3 (1–2).
2011. Speaking of the subaltern: Subjectivities and resistance in the testimonial narratives of workers.  Diliman Review 58 (1–4).
2011. The Manila teachers’ movement: History, challenges, prospects. Selected papers of the 20th Annual Manila Studies Conference July 28-29, 2011.

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EDUCATION

  • B.A. Education, Pamantasang Lungsod ng Maynila, 1999
  • M.A. Education, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2007
  • Ph.D. Philippine Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2015 

COURSES TAUGHT

  • PS 202 Theories & Perspectives in Philippine Studies.
  • PS 212 Filipino Identities
  • PS 219 Seminar: Philippine Society & Culture
  • AS 255.3 Culture & Society in Southeast Asia
  • PS 301 Perspectives in Philippine Studies