Rolando Tolentino
Rolando Tolentino
Rolando Tolentino
is Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication and faculty of the University of the Philippines
Film Institute. He has taught at Osaka University and the National University of Singapore, has been a Distinguished
Visitor at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of California, Los Angeles Southeast Asian Studies
Consortium, and a recipient of the Obermann Summer Research Fellowship. He is the author of National/Transnational:
Subject Formation and Media in and on the Philippines (Ateneo University Press, 2001), and the editor of positions’
special issue “Vaginal Economy: Cinema and Sexuality in the Post-Marcos Post-Brocka Philippines” ( 2011),
and Geopolitics of the Visible: Essays on Philippine Film Cultures (Ateneo University Press, 2002). He is a member of the
Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Filipino Film Critics Group) and chairs the Congress of Teachers and Educators for
Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND-UP).
DR. ROLAND B. TOLENTINO is currently a Professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute in Diliman. He has
been a fellow at the UP Institute of Creative Writing since 2000, and has also taught at the University of California
Berkeley, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and National University of Singapore as a Visiting Professor.
He completed his PhD on Film, Literature, and Culture at the University of Southern California on a Fulbright Grant in
1997, and since then has written extensively on Philippine cinema, literature, and popular culture producing more than 90
publications. Some of his works include “Like/Unlike: Kuwentong Facebook at Politika ng Agam-agam” (2014), “Almanak
ng Isang Aktibista” (2011), and “Sakit ng Kalingkingan: 100 Dagli sa Edad ng Krisis” (2005).
He has received numerous prestigious awards both locally and internationally such as the UP Press Centennial Publication
Award, National Book Award, Obermann Summer Research Fellowship, Manila Critics Circle Award, and the Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards for Literature.
Dr. Tolentino is a member of Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. He
previously served as the Dean of UP College of Mass Communication from 2009 to 2015.