Professor

Rolando B. Tolentino is faculty of University of the Philippines Film Institute and former dean of the UP College of Mass Communication. He has taught at the Osaka University, National University of Singapore, and University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Philippine literature, popular culture, cinema and media, interfacing national and transnational issues. He writes fiction and creative non-fiction, and is a fellow and former director of the Likhaan: UP Institute of Creative Writing.

He held the following positions: head of the National Committee on Cinema, Commissioner for the Subcommission on the Arts of the National Committee for Culture and the Arts, and board member of the Film Development Council of the Philippines. He is a member of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Filipino Film Critics Group), Pinoy Media Center (PMC), Center for People’s Development and Governance (CPDG), Philippine Solidarity and Education Tours (PSET) and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN).

Professor 12, Jan 2014-to date, developed “Technologies of the Self” and “Sci-fi films and critique of society,” “Global Contagion and Prophylaxis: Media Representations of Pandemics,” for STS (Science, Technology and Society); Associate Professor 5, Department of Film and Visual Communication, College of Mass Communication, Apr 2002-Apr 2004, on secondment to Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Nov 1999-Mar 2002; developed courses in Film 10-Sining Sine (Film Art), Film 12-Sineng Pinoy, Film 100-Introduction to Film, Film 104-Genre (with focus on youth-oriented films, on city films, on films on food), Film 106-National Cinema (focus on Asia Pacific Cinemas, and Chinese Cinemas), Film 205-Narrative Film, Film 270-Advance Film Theory (Postmodernism and the Political, Narrative Theory), Film 290-New Research Methods (focus on historiography, on researching popular culture), Com 333-Issues in Communication (Estrada and the Crisis of the Presidency); and for the Ph.D. Media Studies, developed MS331 Media and Popular Culture, MS 332 Media, Diaspora and the Transnationalization of Culture, and MS397 Seminar Course on the Politics of Representation and Representation of the Political, taught Media 304 Media and Identities.