Education

Jem earned his MA and PhD degrees in linguistics at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. He participated in Bahasa Malaysia training & research at the University of Malaya through the Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program (SEASREP).

Teaching Portfolio

As a faculty member of the UP Department of Linguistics, he has handled the following courses on Philippine linguistics, linguistics, general education, National Service Training Program, and Indonesian/Malaysian language:

• Philippine Linguistics (LinggPil)
  • LinggPil 280: The Structure of a Philippine Language
  • LinggPil 285: Structural Comparison of Philippine Languages
  • LinggPil 245: Philippine Lexicography
• Linguistics (Lingg) - Graduate level
  • Lingg 201: The Science of Linguistics
  • Lingg 206: Grammatical Analysis I
  • Lingg 207: Grammatical Analysis II
  • Lingg 245: Lexicography
• Linguistics - Undergraduate level
  • Lingg 110: Introduction to Linguistics
  • Lingg 115: Linguistic Analysis
  • Lingg 120: Reading and Writing Linguistic Research
  • Lingg 121: Linguistic Survey of the Philippines
  • Lingg 125: Introduction to Field Methods
  • Lingg 130: Structure of a Philippine Language
  • Lingg 140: Introduction to Grammatical Theories
  • Lingg 150: The Austronesian Language Family
  • Lingg 165: Phonological and Morphological Comparison of Philippine Languages
  • Lingg 166: Syntactic and Semantic Comparison of Philippine Languages
  • Lingg 180: Language Issues in the Philippines
  • Lingg 190: Structures of World's Languages
• General Education
  • Lingg 1: You and Your Language
  • Soc Sci 1: Foundations of Social Science
• National Service Training Program
  • LTS: Literacy Training Service
• Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia (B Ind/Mal)
  • B Ind/Mal 10: Elementary Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia I
  • B Ind/Mal 11: Elementary Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia II
  • B Ind/Mal 12: Intermediate Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia I
  • B Ind/Mal 13: Intermediate Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia II
  • Lingg 132: Structure of Bahasa Indonesia/Malaysia

For the list of courses that he is currently handling, click here.

Research

His essays have appeared in academic journals such as the Social Science Diliman, The Archive, Asian Theatre Journal, Jati Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Manusya Journal of Humanities, Daluyan, and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; and in edited collections and anthologies such as The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics, Translation Studies in the Philippines: Navigating a Multilingual Archipelago (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies), The Legacy of Consuelo J. Paz: A Festschrift, Springer's Digital Culture and Humanities Book Series, and Salindaw: Varayti at Baryasyon ng Filipino. For the full list of his publications, click here.

He has done linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in different sites such as Kalinga, Benguet, Batangas, Bohol, Cebu, Marinduque, Ifugao, Palawan, Camarines Sur, Batanes, Iloilo, Quezon, Pampanga, Kuala Lumpur, Bulacan, Romblon, and Metro Manila.

His research outputs have been presented at different national and international conferences, symposia, and fora. For the full list of his presentations, click here. 

He is part of the editorial team and/or referee pool of several academic journals such as The Archive, Social Science Diliman, Philippine Journal of Linguistics, Humanities Diliman, Philippine Social Sciences Review, Asia Pacific Higher Education Journal, Hawai'i Journal of Humanities, CMU Journal of Science, UP Sentro ng Wikang Filipino Aklatan Bayan, Daluyan, Diliman Gender Review, Banwaan: The Philippine Journal of Folklore, and Jati Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

Among the academic organizations and honor societies that he has been a member of include the The Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics, Southeast Asian Studies Association in Southeast Asia, Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society for the Social Sciences, Ugnayang Pang-Agham-Tao Anthropological Association of the Philippines, and Asian Association for Lexicography.

Extension Service

He has been part of various academic activities with the aim of dissemination research on linguistics and the social sciences in the Philippines. Some of the conferences/symposia that he (co-)convened are the Philippine Linguistics Congress (2021), Consuelo J. Paz Lectures (2019 and 2021), Philippine Indigenous Languages Lecture Series (2019), Philippine Korean Studies Symposium (2019 and 2021), Pagpunla at Pag-ani: A National Conference to Commemorate the 70 Years of UP Diliman (2019), Sawikaan: Salita ng Taon 2018, and Pambansang Kumperensiya ng K'wentong Bayan (2017).

He served as Chair of the UP Department of Linguistics (2019-2022), Coordinator of the UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) Office of the Graduate Program, College Secretary of the UP CSSP, Deputy Director of the UP Diliman Information Office (2014-2018), and Member of the UP Diliman COVID-19 Task Force (2020-2021). He was an accredited announcer and member of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas through DZUP, the official radio station of UP Diliman. He co-produces Tuko Chronicles, the official podcast of the UP CSSP Folklore Studies Program.

Grants & Awards

He was awarded the UP Diliman Centennial Faculty Grant (2023), Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Mananaliksik sa Filipino (2021), One UP Faculty Grant in Linguistics for Outstanding Teaching and Research in UP Diliman (2019-2021), One UP Faculty Grant in Linguistics for Outstanding Research and Public Service in UP Diliman (2022-2024 & 2016-2018), Visiting Fellowship at the University of Shizuoka (2018), UP International Publication Award (2018, 2019, and 2023), UP Research Dissemination Grant, Gawad Sentro ng Wikang Filipino para sa Pinakamahusay na Artikulo (2013), Gawad Kolehiyo ng Agham Panlipunan at Pilosopiya, SEASREP Language Training and Research Grant (2013), and Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in the Social Sciences Student Award.