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04 May 2006

roland tolentino blogs

filipino fictionist and critic roland tolentino now blogs.

roland has received palanca, cultural center of the philippines, philippines free press and manila critics' circle national book awards from as well as fulbright, hawthornden castle, st. louis poetry center as well as the all university predoctoral merit fellowships for his creative writing and research. he completed his phd at the university of southern california's film school (steven spielberg is one of their prominent graduates).

immediately after his postgrad at usc, roland returned to teach at u.p. then he took a leave to become visiting professor at osaka gaidai (osaka university of foreign studies, japan). he became an active member of the manunuri ng pelikulang pilipino, the organization of film critics behind the annual urian awards. then he became director of the u.p. film institute. then he became holder of the henry sy professorial chair in the university. then
early this year, roland became a distinguished visitor at ucla. currently, he is a visiting fellow and associate professor at the national university of singapore. he will return to teach at u.p. diliman's college of mass communication early next year.

roland's creative and critical works have been published in screen, social text, film appreciation, amerasia (ucla), asian ainema, refiguring spain, filipiniana reader, ani, diliman review, foreign relations, philippines studies, philippine-japan relations towards the 21st century and transnational asia pacific.

his books include ang mahaba't maikling pag-ibig nina dario't eufemia (1991), engkuwento: katipunan ng mga akda ng kabataang manunulat (1991), habilin: antolohiya ng katha para sa pambansang kasamulan (1991), brigido batungbakal: pula ang kulay ng dugo at iba pang kuwento (1997), ali * bang + bang atbp. kuwento (1994), fastfood, megamall at isa pang kuwento sa pagsasa ng ikalawang milenyo; sapinsaping pag-ibig at pagtangos: tatlong novella ng pagsinta't paghinagpis (1999), relasyon: mga kuwento ng paglusong at pag-alon (ikalimang antolohiya ng katha), ang aklat likhaan ng tula at maikling kuwento (1999), richard gomez at ang mito ng pagkalalaki, sharon cuneta at ang perpetual na birhen at iba pang sanaysay hinggol sa bida sa pelikula bilang kultural na texto ( richard gomez and the masculine myth, sharon cuneta and the perpetual virgin and other essays on film stars as cultural texts, 2000), geopolitics of the visible: essays on philippine film cultures (ateneo de manila university press, 2000), national/transnational: subject-formation, media and cultural politics in and on the philippines (ateneo de manila university press, 2001), sa loob at labas ng mall kong sawi/kaliluha’y siyang nangyayaring hari: ang pagkatuto at pagtatanghal ng kulturang popular (inside and outside my shattered mall/confusion reigns supreme: pedagogy and performance of popular culture, 2001) and transglobal economies and cultures: contemporary japan and southeast asia (as co-editor, 2004).


his blog should be interesting. find some time to read it.
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roland tolentino in his office at the faculty of arts and social sciences, nus
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roland tolentino outside the new university hall, nus
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with roland tolentino and trina pineda-tinio in holland village, singapore
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roland tolentino returns to diliman in 2007

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