Here is an incomplete body of works that I have “published” (meaning, submitted as part of my course work, but have NOT, unless indicated, actually published in any scholarly journal) during my undergraduate and graduate studies years. I say “incomplete” because I definitely will not be putting everything that I have done for publish consumption, for the simple reason that I doubt that anything I wrote prior to my fourth year of college was really worth looking at in terms of the general body of criticism and scholarly work that students like myself are expected to put out.

The main reason why I am putting up these papers is for personal reference, because I would like to be able to look back and assess what I have done at each turn. Another equally important reason is because I strongly believe that what I have written here may be able to help other people in my position (even if it may just be by means of showing them what NOT to do!), or may be of interest to folks with as strange tastes as mine.

Intimacy, Irony, Nostalgia & History: An Analysis of A.S. Byatt’s “Possession”

Written during my senior year, for a class that tackled a general overview of the development of fiction through the medium of the novel – it primarily applies textual analysis, with some references to outside resources in order to support a few of the points that I made in the paper.

Devil at the Door: The Devil Figure in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and Mike Carey’s “Lucifer”

My undergraduate thesis, which was a comparative analysis of the representation of the devil in two fictional works: John Milton’s epic poem, “Paradise Lost”, and Mike Carey’s comic series, “Lucifer”. I primarily applied textual analysis, with a framework grounded in narratology and semiotics.

That’s Way Gay: Negotiating Textual Gaps & Homoerotic Interpretation in Akira Amano’s “Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

My final paper submission in Literature 201, Research Methods, which is a core course for masteral students of Literary and Cultural Studies at Ateneo de Manila University like myself. Through the use of reader-oriented criticism, I attempted to explain what it is in the text of the manga Reborn! that causes the majority of its readers, mostly female, to perceive the text as homoerotic, and to respond through the creation of homoerotic fanworks, with fanfiction and dojinshi being the major examples I used in my paper.

I hope to expand and improve upon the study that I started in this paper, and, with luck, submit it to a scholarly journal in the future.

Nostalgia and Self-loathing: Tracing Japanese Aestheticism and Sensibilities in Yukio Mishima’s “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”

My final paper submission in Literature 251, The Development of Fiction, which is a core course for masteral students of Literary and Cultural Studies at Ateneo de Manila University like myself. Although this is more of a survey and and a simple analysis than anything else, it may be a good example of how to apply theory to a text while taking the cultural context of the work into consideration.

A Silent World: The Dystopic Vision in Chuck Palahniuk’s “Lullaby”

My final paper submission in Literature 291.13, Speculative Fiction, an elective that I decided to take up as part of my course work in the MA: Literary and Cultural Studies Program. It traces the dystopic vision perpetuated in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, “Lullaby”, and heavily relies on textual analysis.

I will continue to add PDF versions of my papers to this list as I continue my work.