Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
BA in Language and Literature
University of the Philippines- Baguio, Philippines
MA in Language and Literature
University of the Philippines- Baguio, Philippines
PhD in Cultural Studies
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Jose Kervin Cesar B. Calabias is an Igorot Kankana-ey scholar from Baguio City, Philippines. He is an associate professorial lecturer at the Department of Literature at 开元真人in Manila and managing editor of Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance. He has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Lingnan University Hong Kong where he received the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship Scheme and the Belt and Road Scholarship awards. His research areas and publications examine the intersections of contemporary Igorot indigeneity, activism, and social media.
Research Interest
- Language and Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Indigenous Studies
- Diaspora Studies
- Performance Studies
Selected Publications
- “Reclaiming the Indigenous Body: Discourse, Social Media, and Aesthetics of Igorot Activism.” Kritika Kultura 39, 2022, pp. 520-544. DOI: .
- “Death鈥檚 Capital: Urban Poor Political Ecology and the Aesthetics of Salvaging by the Nightcrawlers of Manila.”听Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia,听edited by Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan, and Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, Springer Asia in Transition; Vol 17, Singapore, 2022, pp. 119-133. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1130-9_7