LUA, SHIRLEY O.

LUA, SHIRLEY O.
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Shirley O. Lua is an associate professor of literature at De La Salle University (DLSU). She sits on the board of the Manila Critics Circle, which hands out the National Book Awards annually to the best books published in the Philippines; and the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, the film critics group that confers the annual Gawad Urian on the best Philippine movies. She is a member of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Committee on Literature. She has served as coordinator for Philippine PEN Civil Society Programme since 2010, managing projects such as “For Love of the Word: Workshops on Teaching Philippine Literature.” She wrote the texts in “44 Cineastas Filipinos,” a coffee-table book on Filipino filmmakers. She served as the associate editor of “Direk: Essays on Filipino Filmmakers” (DLSU Publishing House and Sussex Academic Press, 2018).Her essays, articles, and creative works have appeared in anthologies, magazines, newspapers and journals. She is former director of DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (2011-2017).