BAGONG LIBRO NG MGA TULA NI E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
NEWS
RELEASE--
E.
SAN JUAN JR. PUBLISHES 4th BOOK OF POEMS IN FILIPINO
U.S.-based Filipino scholar E. San Juan, Jr., emeritus
professor of English, Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies, has just
published his fourth book of poems in Filipino, Bukas Luwalhating Kay Ganda, sponsored by the Philippines Cultural Studies
Center. Released this February 2013, the book is available from amazon.com and
also createspace.com.
His previous collections include Alay sa Paglikha ng
Bukang-liwayway (Ateneo U Press), Sapagkat Iniibig Kita (U.P. Press), Sutrang Kayumanggi and Mahal Magpakailanman (LuLu.com).
San Juan is currently a fellow of the Harry Ransom Center,
University of Austin, Texas. Previously he was a fellow of the W.E.B.
Institute, Harvard University, for which he is completing a monograph on “African American
Internationalism and Solidarity with the Philippine Revolution.” A part of the research has been
published in Socialism and Democracy, July
2010, and in the e-journal Cultural Logic.
Born in Sta. Cruz, Manila, Philippines, San Juan received
his A.B. , magna cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, and his A.M.
and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was president of the U.P. Writers Club in
1957-58. He also taught at U.P.
from 1959-60, 1966-67, and 1987-88 (as Fulbright professor); in Ateneo
University, and also at Centro Escolar University. He was visiting professor at Brooklyn College; Wesleyan
University; Leuven University, Belgium; Trento University, Italy; Tamkang
University and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
His recent books are Rizal in Our Time (revised edition; Anvil); Balikbayang
Sinta: An E. San Juan Reader (Ateneo U Press); In the Wake of Terror (Lexington), Critique and Social
Transformation (Mellen); From Globalization
to National Liberation (U.P. Press), US
Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines
(Palgrave), and Critical Interventions (Lambert). UST Publishing
House will soon launch his new collection, Ulikba at iba pang Tula.
Currently San Juan is preparing an anthology of his critical
essays in Filipino as a sequel to Himagsik
(published in 2004 by De La Salle U Press) and a ground-breaking commentary on
an important historical document, hitherto unpublished, Benjamin Appel’s “Manila
Diary,” together with a critique of Appel’s novel on the Philippines, Fortress
in the Rice.--##
Contact: PHILIPPINES CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER 117 Davis Road, Storrs, CT 06268, USA
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