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Shirley O. Lua

Associate Professor

Educational Background
AB in Mass Communication
Far Eastern University, Philippines

MA in Language and Literature major in English
De La Salle University, Philippines

PhD in Literature
De La Salle University, Philippines

Shirley O. Lua is an associate professor of literature at De La Salle University (DLSU). She is a member of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Committee on Literature. 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 wrote the texts in 44 Cineastas Filipinos. She was the associate editor of Direk: Essays on Filipino Filmmakers (2018). She is former director of DLSU Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center (2011-2017).

Research Interest

  • Comparative Literature
  • Literary Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Philippine Critical Tradition
  • Film & Media Criticism
  • Diaspora Studies
  • Chinese-Philippine Literature
  • Literary and Cultural Research
  • Heritage Studies

Selected Publications

  • “Without a Sword: Teaching Zhang Yimou’s Hero in the Context of the Wuxia Tradition.” Teaching Film from the People’s Republic of China. Edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, Hongmei Yu, The Modern Language Association of America, 2024, forthcoming. 
  • “The Gothic Affliction in Philippine Cinema.” Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic. Edited by Jeremy de Chavez, Anthem Press, 2024, forthcoming. 
  • “Recreating the World in Twenty-First-Century Philippine Chinese Speculative Fiction.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Special Issue: The Worlds of Southeast Asian Chinese Literature, edited by Cheow Thia Chan and Carlos Rojas. Duke University Press and Lingnam University, 19.2 (October 2022): 491-508. https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966767
  • Direk: Essays on Filipino Filmmakers, edited by Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr. and Shirley Lua, De La Salle University Publishing House and Sussex Academic Press, 2018.