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Clarissa V. Militante

Associate Professor

Educational Background
AB in Literature
De La Salle University, Philippines

MFA in Creative Writing
De La Salle University, Philippines

PhD in Literature
De La Salle University, Philippines

Clarissa V. Militante is author of three novel: State of Happiness (2022; the University of the Philippines Press under the UP-Institute of Creative Writing’s Philippine Writers Series), We Who Cannot be Daughters (2014; UST Publishing House); Different Countries (2010; Anvil Publishing). Her first published novel, Different Countries, was long-listed in the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize and a finalist in the 2010 UP Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award. She had also published short stories. “Dream of the Ruins,” written under a grant from the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (BNSCWC), was published in UP Likhaan’s DX Machina Vol. 4/No. 3/2021. Another short story, “Cecilia’s Kind of Love,” was included in Anthology Short Stories I published by the Sydney School of Arts & the Humanities in 2018. Her current focused fields of studies are fiction, novel, narrative. She is presently working on her essays for her research on “Modernist Literary Devices in 21st Century Fiction: Time and World-building in East Asian Novels,” through a grant from the University Research Coordination Office. She is a full-time faculty member of the Department of Literature of DLSU, where she also finished her PhD in Literature, and an Associate for Fiction of the BNSCWC.

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