BOARD MEMBERS
Micaela Manansala
University of the Philippines
“While the Philippine academe’s drive toward specialization has had the tendency to limit parameters for what can be considered proper objects of literary scholarship, it has also produced an overfull ‘margin’ in which intellectual resistance and creative ferment are bolstered by the same constraints.”
That is, I’m happy to continue what is already a long tradition of encouraging Filipino students to study comics despite what their other teachers say.
C-S Publications
Book Review for Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan. By Stevie Suan. The Journal of Asian Studies (2022), vol 81.4. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. doi:10.1017/S0021911822001553
[Co-authored with Julie B. Jolo] “Courting the Gaze, Romancing the Margins: Queer Re-Orientation in Emiliana Kampilan’s Komix,” Review of Women’s Studies vol. XXX, 2020: 107-148.
“Myths of Cleansing and Reclamation: The Politics of Inundation in TRESE: High Tide at Midnight,” Latag: Essays on Philippine Literature, Culture, and the Environment. Eds. Timothy Ong & Isabelle Lacuna. Philippines: Likhaan, 2019: 144-166.
“Preface” [as issue co-editor with Louise Jashil Sonido] Drawn into Narrative: Special Issue of The Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature. Vol. 17 (2018) https://www.journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/jescl/issue/view/652
“Communal Homes and Heterotopic Contagion in Trese,” Between, 8.15 (2018): n. pag. ISSN: 2039-6597
“Myth Museum: Synchronicity and Simultaneity as Conflicting Paradigms in TRESE,” Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature (March 2016), 5-16.
“Alternative Epistemologies in Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo's TRESE,” Humanities Diliman (Jul-Dec 2016) 13:2, 1-25. ISSN: 2012-0788.
“Enabling Mythologies: Specificity and Myth-making in TRESE,” Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel. E-book. Eds. Jonathan Evans and Thomas Giddens. UK: Inter-disciplinary Press, 2013: 21-31.
Into C-S
2022
Online from Tbilisi, Georgia. Re–Imagining Literatures of The World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins (23rd General Congress of ICLA), Presented the Paper “Trese Enters the Media Mix: From Komiks to Netflix Anime”
Online from Taiwan. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Presented the paper “Transmedia Manila: Representing Locality in Trese”
2020
Online from Kobe, Japan. AAS-in-Asia, Presented the Paper “Faust Angels: The Takarazuka Connection in Manga Adaptations of Goethe's Faust Drama”
2019
University of Tsukuba. The 3rd EAJS Conference in Japan, Presented the Paper “Emotional Currency: Magical Girls and the Utility of Emotion”
University of Macau. Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature (22nd General Congress of ICLA) “Butterflies, Mermaids, Mephistopheles: Figures of Temptation in Two Faust Texts”
University of the Philippines, Diliman. The Littoral and the Liminal: Bonding ASEAN through Literary Studies, Ecological Criticism, and Environmental Humanities (3rd ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Workshop), Presented the Paper “Walay sa Tubig: Marginality, Mermaids, and a view to Queer Ecology in Betina Continuado’s Huli”
2018
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. Superheroes Beyond Conference, Presented the Paper, “Precarious Origins and Cosmogenic Inclusivity in Dead Balagtas: Mga Sayaw ng Dagat at Lupa”
University of Philippines, Diliman and Ateneo de Manila University. Shakespeare Traffics Tropics (The 3rd Biennial Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association), Presented the Paper “Mermaid-like, She Drowns: The Figure of Ophelia in Claymore and Ergo Proxy.”
Vietnam National University. Ecologies in Southeast Asian Literatures: Histories, Myths and Societies (The 2nd ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Workshop), Presented the Paper “Politics of Inundation: Motifs of Flood and Metaphors of Reclamation in Contemporary Komiks,” ASLE-ASEAN.
University of the Philippines, Diliman. American Transculturalism: Frameworks for the post-K12 college classroom (The American Studies Association of the Philippines Lecture Program). Invited Lecturer, “Annotations to an Adventure: Teaching Transmediality through Westworld.”
2017
University of the Philippines, Diliman. Department of English and Comparative Literature, Tenure Lecture. “The Faust Myth and The Incubation of the Eternal Feminine: A Narratological Analysis of Character in Goethe’s Faust, Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, and Urobuchi & Shinbo’s Puella Magi Madoka Magica”
University of Cagliari. Spaced Out: Spatiality in Comics, Presented the Paper “Communal Homes and Heterotopic Contagion: The Cemetery, The Dormitory, and the Exclusive Subdivision in TRESE”
2015
University of the Philippines, Diliman. The Forbidden: The 16th Biennial Symposium on Literature and Culture in the Asia Pacific. Presented the Paper, “Intermedia Eroticization in Manara’s A Riveder le Stelle and Gerry Alanguilan’s Where Bold Stars Go to Die”
UP Department of English and Comparative Literature and UP Anime Manga Enthusiasts. “Manga by the Bard: A Shakespeare and Manga Workshop” and “Shakespeare & Manga Workshop for UP Diliman Students”, Organizer
2014
University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies. UP CWS and BLTX (Better Living Through Xeroxography) Workshop “It Ain’t Me, Babe: A discussion on women and queer representation in Filipino komix”, Organizer
2013
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Transcultural Imaginaries: Making New, Making Strange. Moving Worlds. Presented the Paper, “Myth Museum: Synchronicity and Simultaneity as Conflicting Paradigms in TRESE”
2012
Mansfield College, Oxford. First Global Conference on the Graphic Novel. Inter-disciplinary.net. “Enabling Mythologies: Specificity and Myth-making in TRESE”
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
