- Resil Mojares
Resil Mojares is a Filipino fictionist, historian and critic. He has a Ph.D. in Literature from the
University of the Philippines . He recently retired as Professor at theUniversity of San Carlos (USC) inCebu City . He was founding director (1975-96) of USC's "Cebuano Studies Center", a pioneering local studies center in the Philippines.He has authored books in Philippine history, literature, and politics. His recent book is "Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays in Philippine Cultural History" (2002). He is currently working on the emergence of modern disciplines in the Philippines through the careers of three Filipino intellectuals (
Pedro Paterno ,T.H. Pardo de Tavera ,Isabelo de los Reyes ), whose writings span the years 1876-1933 in fields like history, anthropology, linguistics, and sociology.He has been a recipient of six Philippine National Book Awards. His other books include "The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu Province"; "Aboitiz: Family & Firm in the Philippines"; and "House of Memory: Essays".
He also wrote the book "
Vicente Sotto ,The Maverick Senator" (Cebuano Studies Center) (1992)Mojares was Visiting Professor at the
University of Kyoto , TheNational University of Singapore and theUniversity of California atLos Angeles where he lectures on "The Philippine Novel," "Topics in Philippine Cultural History"as well as other issues relating to Philippine socio-cultural history from the 16th to the 20th centuries.He is currently writing the History of
Cebu Province for theCebu Town History Project .External links
* [http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/profile.htm Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore]
* [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/mojares_haunting.html The Haunting of the Filipino Writer by Resil Mojares]
* [http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/visitingscholars2000-01.asp UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies]
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