Book Chapters

2023. “Flirting with gender purrspetives: Contemporary Women’s activist comics in the Philippines.” In Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia, edited by Amy Barrow and Sara Fuller. Routledge. (Co-authored with Kristine Michelle L. Santos)

2022. “Wife, Child, Illegal: Static Representations of Filipinos in Japanese Manga.” In Transnationalism in East and Southeast Asian Comics Art, edited by John A. Lent, Wend Siuyi Wong, and Benjamin Wai-ming Ng. Palgrave Macmillan. (Co-authored with Benjamin San Jose)

2022. “Static Narratives: Nationalism and World War II History Textbooks in the Philippines.” In Colonialism and Modernity: Re-Mapping Philippine Histories, edited by Oscar V. Campomanes, Nobutaka Suzuki, and Yoshio Nagano. Naga City, Camarines Sur: Ateneo de Naga University Press.

2021. “Revisiting 'Cool Japan': The Southeast Asian Gaze toward Japanese Manga and Anime.” In The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era, edited by John D. Ciociari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui, 248 – 76., MI, USA: University of Michigan Press.

2021. “Philippines: Overlooked by soft power and media mix.” In Japanese Animation in Asia: Transnational Industry, Audiences, and Success, edited by Marco Pellitteri and Wong Heung-wah, 163 - 78. Routledge. (Co-authored with Herb L. Fondevilla)

2019. “Japanese Representation in Philippine Media” In The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity, edited by Steven Ratuva, 416-26. Palgrave Macmillan.

2015. "Teaching our Children: Education in Japan since the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Present." In Connecting "Infrastructure" and "Superstructure": Developments Towards Far-Reaching Impacts, 228-239. Bangkok, Thailand: API Regional Coordinating Institution.

2015. "Pinoy manga in Philippine komiks." In Global Manga: 'Japanese' Comics without Japan, edited by Casey Brienza, 185-201. Routledge. (Co-authored with Kristine Michelle Santos)

2014. "Syonan for Children: Representations of Nan'yo in Shonen Kurabu in the 1930s." In Japan and Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Modern Times, edited by Teow See Heng, Lydia Yu-Jose, Ricardo Trota Jose, and Yoshimura Mako, 41-60. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.

2013. "Friend or Foe: Representations of Japan in the Print Media in the Philippines, 1940s to the Present." In Imagining Japan in Post-War East Asia: Identity politics, schooling and popular culture, edited by Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu, and Edward Vickers, 85-105. Routledge.

2013. "Representing the War in Manga." In Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts, edited by Mark Baildon, Kah Seng Loh, Ivy Maria Lim, Gulhnan, and Junaidah Jaffar, 123-39, Routledge.

Journal Articles

2023. “Philippine-Japan Relations: Friends with Benefits.” Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 34. 

2018. “Japanese Popular Culture and its Re-definition from the Peripheries.” Orientaliska Studier 156 (2018). 28 – 37.

2017. “Revisiting Japanese Studies in Southeast Asia.” Border Crossing: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 5 (1). 137 – 49.

2015. “Boy meets World: the Worldview of Shōnen Kurabu in the 1930s.” Japan Forum 28 (1): 74–98..

2005. “The Stories They Tell: Komik Strips during the Japanese Occupation Period of the Philippines, 1942-44.” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 53 (1): 59 – 90.

Education & Research

• • AB in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and History), Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, 2001
  • MA in Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2005
  • D. Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, 2010

Courses Taught

• • AS 221 Modern Japanese Texts
  • AS 234 Special Topics: Northeast Asia (History in/with/from Comics)
  • Int Jap A Elementary Japanese
  • Int Jap B Intermediate Japanese