Publications

Books and Essays
Collecting the People: Textualizing Epics in the Philippines from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First. Book manuscript in preparation.

“The Epochs of Epics in Philippines: Episodes in the History of Textualizing Oral Epics.” Essay in preparation for submission to the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

“Reproductive Anticolonialism: Placental Politics, Weaponised Wombs, and the Power of Abjection in the Early Spanish Mariana Islands.” Essay under review.

Nenita Pambid Domingo and Brandon Reilly, eds., Tinipong Tinig ng Kababaihan: Priestesses to Presidents. Forthcoming from the University of the Philippines Press, 2019.

“The Voice of the Baylan: Recollecting the History of a Lost Philippine Feminine Repertoire.” Essay to be published in Tinipong Tinig ng Kababaihan: Priestesses to Presidents. Forthcoming from the UP Press, 2019.

“The Cultures of Rizal: Towards a Study of Afterlives.” Essay under review for an edited volume from Rizal in the 21st Century: Local and Global Perspectives conference, University of the, Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, June 22-24, 2011.

“Epics in the Early Spanish Philippines Revisited.” In Nicole Revel, ed., Songs of Memory in Islands of Southeast Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 279-292.

“Imaginable as Other: The Representation of Muslims in Zaide and Zaide's Philippine History and Government and Agoncillo's History of the Filipino People.” Peer reviewed. Mindanao Forum vol. 24 no. 1 (2011): 43-67.

Reviews
Play review of Fake. Written by Floy Quintos and directed by Tony Mabesa. Playing at Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan, Bulwagang Rizal Faculty Center Bldg., Univ. of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. 6 evening and 4 afternoon playdates from May 7-15, 2011. Social Sciences Diliman vol. 7 no. 1 (June 2011): 106-109.

Movie review of Amigo. Written and directed by John Sayles. Starring Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt, DJ Qualls, Lucas Neff, Yul Vazquez. Social Sciences Diliman vol. 7 no. 1 (June 2011): 102-105.

Book review of Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight, eds. Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940. International Studies in Social History, vol. 9. Enterprise and Society vol. 11 no. 3 (Sept. 2010): 651-653.

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Things I Research

Research Interests
Philippines, Southeast Asia, Mariana Islands, gender and sexuality, oral traditions, comparative colonialism, Asian Pacific American studies

Research Experience in the Philippines
I spent about a year in the Philippines in 2009-10 and 2010-11 conducting dissertation research in fieldwork in the Metro Manila area in archives at the National Archives, the National Library, the Rizal Library at the Ateneo de Manila University, the Main Library at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, the Miguel de Benavides Library at the University of Santo Tomas, the Lopez Library, and the Ortigas Foundation Library; and outside of the capitol at the Cordillera Studies Center at the University of the Philippines, Baguio, Saint Louis University Library (Baguio), the National Library (Vigan), the Central Library at the University of San Carlos (Cebu), the Silliman University Library (Dumaguete), the Museo de Oro and Main Library at Xavier University (Cagayan de Oro), and Dansalan College Library (Marawi). I also conducted a very brief foray into participant observation of the Talaandig community in Sungco.

Research Experience in the United States
From July to Sept. 2012, I completed my dissertation research in the U.S. at the Newberry Library and the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago (both in Chicago), the Bentley Historical Library and Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Syracuse University Library (Syracuse), the Thetford Historical Society (Thetford, VT), and the Houghton Library at Harvard.

Research Languages
I am fluent in Filipino and Spanish, near-fluent in French, have some reading knowledge of Catalan, Chavacano, Italian, and Portuguese, and am ever so slowly learning Gujarati (Kathiawar), to better converse with my partner’s family.