Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background

  • Ongoing: Ph.D. in Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies,
    University of Naples L'Orientale
    Research Project: Multilingual Practices Among Filipino Migrants and Their Families in Southern Italy:
    Language Attitudes, Maintenance, and Identity Construction
    Supervisors: Antonia Soriente, Ph.D. and Francesca Moro, Ph.D.
     
  • M.A. in Linguistics, University of the Philippines Diliman 
    Thesis: A Grammar of Iraya
    Supervisor: Mary Ann G. Bacolod, Ph.D.
     
  • B.A. in English Studies (Concentration: Language), University of the Philippines Diliman
    Magna Cum Laude, Thesis: Functions of Codeswitching in Japanese-as-a-Foreign-Language Classes
    Supervisor: Maria Saturnina Castro, Ph.D.

Teaching Positions

  • 2018-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman
  • 2013-2018: Instructor, Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman
  • 2009-2013: Mandarin Language Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, UP Diliman
  • 2007-2008: Teacher, Centre for International Education, Cebu

Administrative Positions

  • 2018-2023: Quality Assurance Officer, UP Department of Linguistics
  • 2018-2023: Head of Publicity and Science Communications Unit, UP Department of Linguistics
  • 2017-2023: College Graduation Committee Representative, UP Department of Linguistics
  • 2018-2022: Undergraduate Program Coordinator, UP Department of Linguistics
  • 2014-2019: College Library Committee Representative, UP Department of Linguistics

Research Projects

  • Ongoing: Multilingual Practices of Filipino MIgrants and Their Families in Southern Italy (Doctoral Research Project)
     
  • Ongoing: Adult Naming and Age-of-Acquisition Study for Filipino Vocabulary Assessment (Project Member)
    Project Head: Dr. Katrina May Dulay (City University of London)
     
  • Ongoing: Cataloguing and Digitization of the Ernesto Constantino Personal Collection (Project Head)
    Funded by UP OVCRD-OEC Diliman Extension (2021-2022)
     
  • Ongoing: Buhid Dictionary Project (Co-proponent) 
    Co-proponent: Dr. Mary Ann G. Bacolod
    Funded by UP OVCRD-OEC Diliman Extension Grant (2017-2018)
     
  • Ongoing: Building a Tagalog Univeral Dependencies Treebank (Local project coordinator and annotator)
    Part of the project titled "Information distribution and language structure - correlation of grammatical expressions of the noun/verb distinction and lexical information content in Tagalog, Indonesian and German"
    Project Heads: Dr. Gerard Heyer (University of Leipzig) & Dr. Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Cologne)
    Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Project No. 442315837)
     
  • Motivations of Filipino Adult Learners of Chinese Mandarin (Primary Investigator)
    Funded by UP OVCRD-OEC Diliman Extension Grant (2016-2017)
     
  • Automated Construction of Phylogenetic Trees and Networks of Languages in the Greater Central Philippines by a Feature-Sensitive Metric (Project Member)
    Project Leader: Dr. Richard Lemence
    Funded by UP OVPAA  Emerging Interdisciplinary Research Grant 
     
  • Reflexives in Adult and Child Tagalog (Project Member) 
    Primary Investigator: Dr. Ivan Paul Bondoc
    Funded by University of Hawaii at Manoa 

Other Projects

  • Ongoing: UP Department of Linguistics Oral History Project (2023)
  • Ongoing: Chinese Characters 汉字 Workbooks for Filipino Students
  • UP Department of Linguistics Website Design (2021)
  • Linguistics Alumni Tracer Study (2019)

 Honors & Grants

  • International Publication Award (2023)
    University of the Philippines Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • One UP Faculty Grant for Teaching and Public Service (2022-2024)
    University of the Philippines Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • One UP Faculty Grant for Teaching and Public Service (2019-2021)
    University of the Philippines Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • Extension Grant for the Cataloguing and Digitization of the Ernesto Constantino Personal Collection Project (2021)
    UP OVCRD-Office of Extension
  • Extension Grant for the Buhid Dictionary Project (2017)
    UP OVCRD-Office of Extension
  • Extension Grant for the Chinese Language Extramural Review (2016)
    UP OVCRD-Office of Extension
  • ASEAN University Network-National University of Singapore Study Grant (2005)

External Affiliations

  • Lifetime Member, Linguistic Society of the Philippines
  • Member (2024-2026) Association for Linguistic Typology
  • Member (2024-2025), European Association for Southeast Asian Studies
  • Member (2023-2024), Asian Association for Lexicography
  • Member (2020-2023), American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
  • Liaison Officer (2019-2024), The Lannang Archives

For list of publications, click here.
For list of conference presentations and invited talks, please click here.