Professorial Lecturer

Manga Studies, World War II in Southeast Asia, Children's Literature, Showa History, Japanese Studies, History

English, Tagalog, Japanese

Quezon City, Metro Manila , Philippines

MA, Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2005

PhD, Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, 2010

• Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, 2010 - 2022
• Director, Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University, 2013 - 2020
• Professorial Lecturer, Asian Center, University of the Philippines - Diliman, 2023 - Present

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

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

   

• with Kristine Michelle L. Santos. “Flirting with gender purrspetives: Contemporary Women’s activist comics in the Philippines” Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia by Amy Barrow and Sara Fuller, eds., Routledge. 2023

   

• “Revisiting “Cool Japan”: The Southeast Asian Gaze toward Japanese Manga and Anime,” The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era by John D. Ciociari and Kiyoteru Tsutsui, eds., University of Michigan Press, 2021,

• 『「クールジャパン」の再訪：漫画とアニメに対する東南アジアの視線.』『日本研究論文集』ファム・ホアン・フン（編）世界出版社。２０２１年１１月。

• With Herb L. Fondevilla.  “Philippines: Overlooked by soft power and media mix,” Japanese Animation in Asia: Transnational Industry, Audiences, and Success by Marco Pellitteri and Wong Heung-wah, eds. Routledge, 2021.

• “Japanese Representation in Philippine Media” The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Edited by Steven Ratuva. 2019, Palgrave Macmillan, 416 - 426

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

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

• "Representing the War in Manga", Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts. Edited by Mark Baildon, Kah Seng Loh, Ivy Maria Lim, Gulhnan, Junaidah Jaffar, 2013, Routledge

• 500,000 JPY per month, Japan Foundation Research Fellow (2022 - 2023)
• 400,000 JPY per month, Asian Public Intellectual Junior Fellow (2013 - 2014)

• Japanese Studies Association of Southeast Asia (JSA-ASEAN) Steering Committee Member - Philippines