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ALVAREZ, Ma. Ailil B.
ALVAREZ, Ma. Ailil B
MA. AILIL B. ALVAREZ has been serving as Director of the UST Publishing House since 2017. She is also an Assistant Professor in the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters-Department of Literature, a Resident Fellow of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies, and a Researcher at the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and the Humanities. Her book of critical essays, Slivers of the Sky: Catholic Literary Readings and Other Essays (2016), was named a finalist in the 36th National Book Awards for the category Literary Criticism/Literary History in English.
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Asst. Prof. Ma. Ailil B. Alvarez, MA
Department of Literature | Publishing House | Research Center for Culture, Arts, and the Humanities
Academic Qualifications
Research Highlights
Research Interests
Academic Qualifications
Degrees
- Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language, Manuel L. Quezon University – Manila, Philippines
- Bachelor of Arts in Literature (Magna cum Laude), University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Philippines
Research Highlights
- 2016 Philippine Studies Association, Inc.: 10th International Conference on Philippine Studies (ICOPhil)
“Cadence of the Soul: The lyrical articulation of spirituality by three female poets” - 2014 Research Colloquium of the UST Department of Literature
“Beyond Religious Schism and War: Piece of Literature, Literature of Peace” - 2013 Research Colloquium of the UST Department of Literature
“Reclaiming the Voice, Re-Imagining the Self: Towards a Revision of Filipino Post-Colonial Aesthetics” - 2012 CDCE-CETA Conference on Language and Literature
“Improving Accounting Word Problem Comprehension of Sophomores of The UST-AMV College of Accountancy in 2012”
Research Interests
- Catholic literature
- spirituality
- Philippine literature (poetry) in English
- women’s studies
- cultural studies (manga/anime, television and fashion)
- mythopoeisis
- film theory and narratology
- identity theory
Courses Handled
Major Recognitions
Professional Activities
Courses Handled
- Catholic Literature
- Literary Criticism
- Literary Theory
- Philippine Literatures
- World Literature
- Art Appreciation / Art, Man, and Society
- Cultural Anthropology and Business Cultures
- Technical Writing
- Academic Writing
- Academic Reading
- College Freshman English
Major Recognitions
- Finalist, 36th National Book Awards in the Best Literary Criticism/Literary History in English Category (for Slivers of the Sky: Catholic Literary Readings and Other Essays [UST Publishing House, 2016])
- Publisher of the Year Awardee (as Deputy Director of the UST Publishing House), given by the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics’ Circle in 2012
Professional Activities
- Director, UST Publishing House (2017-present)
- Resident Fellow, UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (2015-present)
- Member, Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators (2016-present)
- Deputy Director, UST Publishing House (2012-2017)
- Member, Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets and Playwrights, Essayists, and Novelists) (2020-present)
- Honorary Board Member, Academic Booksellers Association of the Philippines (2017-2018)
- Member, Council for Department Chairpersons of English (2007-2012)
- Member, College English Teachers Association (2007-2012)
- Member, Linguistic Society of the Philippines (2007-2008)
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Books and journals
- Author, Slivers of the Sky: Catholic Literary Readings and Other Essays (Manila: UST Publishing House, 2016)—Finalist, National Book Award for Best Literary Criticism in English
Managing Editor, TOMAS Vol. 2, Issue 10: The Anniversary Issue on Criticism (2017)
Research and feature articles
- “The Poetics of Profound Perception: Paul Alcoseba Castillo’s Walang Iisang Salita,” in TOMÁS Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2019)
- “Miracle of Manaoag in pageantry of history, image and faith,” Philippine Daily Inquirer—Arts and Books section (January 9, 2017)
- “UST Pays Tribute to National Artist Cirilo F. Bautista,” Philippine Daily Inquirer—Arts and Books section (October 26, 2015)
- “Speculations of the Soul: Shades of the Catholic Imagination in Carlomar A. Daoana’s Clairvoyance,” in TOMÁS Vol. 2, No. 5 (2015)
- “Lyric Poetry in Pixel: Toward a Postcolonial and Postmodern Poetics of Digital Texts,” in KRITIK/CRITIQUE: Essays from the J. Elizalde Navarro National Workshop in the Criticism of the Arts and Humanities, 2009-2012 (Manila: UST Publishing House, 2014)
Creative works
- “Agape” (p. 7) and “Abundance” (p. 154), two poems in Sustaining the Archipelago: An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry, ed. Rina Garcia Chua (Manila: UST Publishing House, 2017)
- Author, “Camera-Shy” and “Lune de Miel 1 (Genesis),” two poems in Dapitan: Narratives of the City (Manila: The Flame, 2014)
Latest Conferences, Workshops, Symposia, and Contests
Latest Conferences, Workshops, Symposia, and Contests
- Panelist, UST National Writers Workshop, 2015-2019
- Panelist, UST CCWLS TIGERS Undergraduate Workshop, 2016-2019
- Resource Speaker (w/ Asst. Prof. D. L. Marfil), UST RCCAH Thesis Policy Workshop, Mar. 21, 2019
- Resource Speaker, Panel on Writing Literature, 2017 National Conference on Literature Education (PNU), Oct. 6, 2017
- Rapporteur for Parallel Session 1: Ethics, Theory and Method, International Conference on Ethical Literary Criticism, April 27, 2019
- Paper Presenter (w/ Asst. Prof. D. L. Marfil), “Research Primer for Literature Majors,” UST RCCAH Research Fortnight, Feb. 29, 2019
- Paper presenter, 2018 UST RCCAH Research Fortnight, “The sacrality of silence in three female poets,” Feb. 20, 2018
- Paper presenter, 10th International Conference on Philippine Studies (ICOPhil), “Cadence of the Soul: The lyrical articulation of spirituality by three female poets,” July 6-8, 2016
- Moderator and Event Manager, “Multiplicities of Space: A Conversation about Sustaining the Archipelago with Ms. Rina Garcia Chua,” June 7, 2019
- Event Director, the USTPH Panel for the Philippine Readers and Writers Festival, 2017-2019
- Event Director, Huntahan Panitikan: A Forum on Contemporary Literature, Mar. 5-7, 2018
- Event Director, USTPH Case Book Writing Seminar (with Prof. Florenz C. Tugas), Sept. 18, 2019
- Co-Organizer/Event Manager, UST Literary Caravan, April 10, 2019
- Co-Organizer/Event Manager, PEN Launch of Pascual’s, de los Reyes’, and Galan’s newest books by the USTPH, Feb. 23, 2019
- Participant, Philippine International Literary Festival: “Gunita: A Pursuit of Memory,” June 14-15, 2019