E. San Juan Jr. will lecture in San Agustin
Filipino-American literary critic and poet E. San Juan Jr. will deliver this year's Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Lecture, an annual symposium on literature and creative writing organized by the Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Institute at the Coordinating Center for Research and Publications, University of San Agustin.
San Juan will deliver his lecture titled "Praxis of Writing under Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Regime" on December 6, 2006, Wednesday, 10:00 AM at the President's Conference Room, University of San Agustin, General Luna St., Iloilo City.
A respected literary critic and poet, San Juan has more than two dozens of books to his name. He earned his degrees from the University of the Philippines in Diliman and Harvard University. He has taught in many universities in the United States of America like the Washington State University, University of California, and the University of Connecticut. Some of his critical books are: Subversions of Desire: Prolegomena to Nick Joaquin, Crisis in the Philippines: The Making of a Revolution, Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, From the Masses to the Masses: Third World Literature and Revolution, and Philippine Temptation: The Dialectics of U.S.-Philippine Literary Relations.
The Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Lecture annually features the best writers and literary critics in Western Visayas, the whole Philippines, and the Filipino writers in diaspora. Former lecturers are Cirilo F. Bautista (2001), Leoncio P. Deriada (2002), Alice Tan Gonzales (2003), Amorita C. Rabuco (2004), and R. Zamora Linmark (2005).
The lecture is open to the public, especially to creative writers, literature teachers and students of Western Visayas. Interested individuals may call (033) 337-7716 (Look for Mrs. Medel) for advance registration.