I earned a BA in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines and am a current PhD student in English Literature at NUS, under the supervision of Dr. Tania Roy. My research primarily focuses on Philippine and Southeast Asian literature and is geared towards postcolonial, historical materialist, and biopolitical/necropolitical schools of thought. Currently, I am working on a dissertation centered around depictions of postcolonial subjectivity within the body politic of the nation-state and communal death and lifemaking in Philippine and Southeast Asian novels and films. I also have secondary interests in religious studies (particularly in looking at theologies of liberation within popular Catholicism in the Philippines as well as drawing on diasporist Jewish narratives to refine ideas of exile and belonging within colonial modernity), as well as queer/trans studies and transfeminism.