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Carlos M. Piocos III

Full Professor

Educational Background
BA in Comparative Literature
University of the Philippines, Philippines

MA in Critical and Cultural Theory
Cardiff University, UK

PhD in Comparative Literature
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Carlos M. Piocos III is a Full Professor of literary and cultural studies at De La Salle University. His research interests include critical theory, cultural studies, Southeast Asian studies, and migration and diaspora studies. He has published widely on the cultural politics and production of migration in international peer-reviewed journals, and his monograph, Narratives, Affect and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration, was published by Routledge in 2021. He has also edited and translated from Bahasa Indonesia to Filipino an anthology of Indonesian migrant women’s fiction, Bantay Salakay sa Loob ng Aking Bahay, published by Sentro ng Wikang Filipino in 2020. He is the author of two poetry collections: Corpus (UST 2010) and Kung ang Siyudad ay Pag-ibig (UP Press 2019). He finished his PhD degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and his MA degree in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, UK, where he was a Ford Foundation International Fellow from 2009 to 2011.

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