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Biography: ALWIN CHAVEZ AGUIRRE is currently Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Letters in the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He handles courses in Popular Culture and Philippine Literature and Gender, Sexuality and Literature. He obtained his MA from the same institution with a degree in Philippine Studies majoring in Philippine Literature and Women’s Studies. He also writes fiction. His short fiction and futuristic fiction have been recognized by the foremost literary award giving body in the country—the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards and by the Cultural Center of the Daily Shimbun. Alwin was a junior fellow of the Nippon Foundation’s Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowships 2006. His research with the title The History of Tomorrow: the Discourse of Science and the Imagination of the Future in Asian Science Fictions was a study of different science fiction texts in Asia particularly in Japan and Indonesia.
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