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E. San Juan, Jr. is currently the director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut, USA. He is on the editorial board in various international journals like in Atlantic Studies; Amerasia Journal; Nature, Society, and Thought; Left Curve. Recently, he was a visiting professor of literature in National Tsing Hua University, and had lectures in 7 state universities in Taiwan.

In 2003, he became a Filbright professor of American Studies in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belguim, and a visiting professor of English in Wesleyan University.

He was a professor and chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University in 1998-2001.

He was a Fulbright lecturer in Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines (1987-88).   

And in 1995, he also became the Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Ohio.  

In 1993, he became a Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities in University of Edinburg, Scotland.

 

He graduated as magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines, and his masters and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

 

Books

He wrote various books that won awards, like his book Racial Formations/ Critical Transformations, that was awarded by the Association for Asian American Studies and the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. In 1994, he received the Katherine Newman Award form the society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States; and the 1999 Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature form the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

 

As a poet, he also released his collection of Filipino poems: Maliwalu (1967), Mayo at iba pang tula (1972), Pagbalikwas (1980), Kung Ikaw ay Inaapi (1984).   

The most recently released of E. San Juan, Jr., which are poems in Filipino entitled Sapagkat Iniibig Kita at Iba Pang Bagong Tula, which is his fifth book of poems.  

 

San Juan's recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory (St. Martin's Press); From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States (Westview Press); Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (State University of New York Press); The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of U.S.-Philippines Literary Relations (Temple University Press); Mediations: From A Filipino Perspective (Anvil Publishing Co.); Allegories of Resistance (University of the Philippines Press), History and Form (Ateneo de Manila University Press); and Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke University Press).

His book entitled After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-US Confrontations (Rowman and Littlefield) won the 2001 Myers Distinguished Book Award. Alay sa Paglikha ng Bukang-liwayway, published by Ateneo de Manila University Press in Quezon City, Philippines, in 2000. In 2004, his collection of essays in cultural studies and critical theory was released, which is entitled Working Through the Contradictions from Bucknell University Press. His other books that were released in Manila: Himagsik (De La Salle University Press) and Tinik sa Kaluluwa at iba pang akda (Anvil).

 

  (Sources:http://www.geocities.com/icasocot2/sanjuan_e.html; http://qc.indymedia.org)

 

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