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

▼ BOOKS, PROCEEDINGS, and ESSAYS

BOOKS

2025. Philippines-Japan Relations in the Twenty-First Century Change and Direction. New York: Routledge. (Co-edited with Dennis D. Trinidad)

PROCEEDINGS

2025. "Rigid Recounting: Martial Law Memories." Proceedings 2024 Critical Vision: Mediatizing Populism and Authoritarianism. Indonesia: Petra Christian University and Universitas Indonesia.

ESSAYS

2020. “Covid-19 and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia” CSEAS Newsletter 78.

2014. "Educational Komiks: Shifting Perspectives." Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia 16.