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Mary Jessel B. Duque

Assistant Professorial Lecturer

Educational Background
AB in English Studies: Creative Writing
University of the Philippines- Diliman, Philippines

Master of Arts (Creative Writing)
University of the Philippines- Diliman, Philippines

Mary Jessel Duque teaches art, literature, media, and popular culture courses at De La Salle University Manila. She earned her BA and MA in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Her essays and fiction have been published in local anthologies. She has won the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize in Art Criticism and has received fellowships from UST’s J. Elizalde Navarro Workshop on Criticism, the IYAS La Salle National Writers’ Workshop. She also won a fellowship to the Cultural Journalism Campus at Art Basel Hong Kong in 2019.

Research Interest

  • Arts
  • Popular Literature and Culture
  • Creative Writing – Fiction
  • Cultural Studies
  • Media Studies

Selected Publications

  • “The Three Countries of Rodel Tapaya,” Philippine Star, 17 February 2020. URL
  • “Marimar: The Many Lives of the Woman by the Sea,” Perro Berde: Revista Cultural Hispano Filipina, vol. 8, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID),  2019. 
  • “Exploring MM Yu’s Accidental Archive,” Philippine Star, 23 February 2019. URL
  • “Ray Albano: Playing in the Sandbox of Art,” Philippine Star, 18 February 2019. URL
  • “Erwin Wurm: This Artist Wants You to Stand in a Bucket and Be Part of His Exhibit,” Spot PH, 23 May 2018. URL