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

Book Chapters

2014. “Midya at Pasismo [Media and Fascism].” In Media at Lipunan [Media and Society], edited by Rolando B. Tolentino and Josefina M.C. Santos, 107-121.Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

2013. “Elias and the Rizalian Middle-Class Imagination of Bonifacio and Revolution.” In Salita ng Sandata: Bonifacio’s Legacies to the People’s Struggles, edited by Bienvenido Lumbera, Judy Taguiwalo, Rolando B. Tolentino, Gerry Lanuza, and Gonzalo Campoamor II, 111-118. Quezon City: Ibon Foundation, Inc.

2015. “Agimat, banga at tapayan, diwata, gayuma, kayumanggi, nganga, pamahiin, sirena, siyokoy, tikbalang, tiyanak, tuli.” In Sagisag kultura ng Filipinas, edited by Virgilio S. Almario. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Filipinas Institute of Translation, Inc.

2007. “The Pedagogical Role of English in the Reproduction of Labor.” In Mula Tore patungong Palengke: Neoliberal Education in the Philippines, edited by Bienvenido Lumbera, Ramon Guillermo, and Arnold Alamon, 199-210. Quezon City: Ibon Foundation, Inc.

1998. “Ang Diskurso ng Piging ng Sentenaryo [Discourse of the Centennial Celebration] ”. In Mga Piling Babasahin sa Wika at Lipunan [Readings in Language and Society], edited by Ligaya G. Tiamson-Rubin and Jesus Fer. Ramos, 187-212. Diliman, Quezon City: InfoQuest Printing and Multi-Media Services, Inc.