Instructor in Language and Literature
Email: lepiluden@up.edu.ph
Lioba Piluden is from Mountain Province and Baguio City. She graduated with a BA degree in Language and Literature from the University of the Philippines Baguio where she is currently taking up a Master’s degree. She has been a creative writing fellow for national workshops held in UP Baguio, Ateneo de Manila University, and Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas. From 2016-2020 she served as full-time faculty at St. Mary’s School of Sagada in Mountain Province where she facilitated community-based heritage mapping projects as part of the school’s Indigenous Peoples’ Education (IPED) program. She writes fiction and nonfiction as a member of the Ubbog Cordillera Writers’ Group. At present she teaches undergraduate courses in UP Baguio.
EDUCATION
B.A. (Language and Literature), cum laude, University of the Philippines Baguio
COURSES TAUGHT
BLL 108 The Reading and Writing Process
BLL 136 Panitikang Bayan
BLL 138 Panitikan ng Hilagang Luzon
PI 100 Life and Works of Rizal
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Literary and Cultural Studies
Folklore
Cordillera Studies
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Books and Book Chapters
- “The Redness of Balitok in Ibaloy Folklore and Literature,” Chapter contributor, Indigenous Media and Popular Culture in the Philippines: Representations, Voices, and Resistance. 2024. Edited by Jason Paolo Telles. ISBN 978-981-99-9100-6
- “The Mountain Writes Back in Cordillera Fiction: Reading Rocky Cajigan’s short stories as bioregional literature,” Panelist and Contributing Author, Himaya Panitikan ng Pagbabanyuhay 2022 (25-26 March 2022, National Committee on Literary Arts)
- “Balitok, the Creation of the Ili, and the Decentering/Recentering of the Land in Ibaloy Folklore and Literature,” Panelist and Contributing Author, Hulagway Conversation Series and Publication (6 Nov 2021, National Committee on Literary Arts)
Short Communication
- Piluden, L.A. 2022. “Balitok, the Creation of the Ili, and the Decentering/Recentering of the Land in Ibaloy Folklore and Literature.” In Hulagway: Bahay ng Salita, 62-70. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts
Conference Presentations
- Piluden, L.A. 2021. “Practical Nostalgia and Sagada Place-Memory in the Commemorative Practices of St. Mary’s School of Sagada.” Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Cordillera Studies, Baguio City, July 2021.
- Piluden, L.A. 2022. “The Mountain Writes Back in Cordillera Fiction: Reading Rocky Cajigan’s Short Stories as Bioregional Literature.” Paper presented at Himaya: Panitikan ng Pagbabanyuhay, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Zoom, March 25-26, 2022.
AWARDS, CITATIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- 2024 International Publication Award (“The Redness of Balitok in Ibaloy Folklore and Literature,” Chapter contributor, Indigenous Media and Popular Culture in the Philippines: Representations, Voices, and Resistance. 2024. Edited by Jason Paolo Telles. ISBN 978-981-99-9100-6)
- 2023 Cordillera Studies Center Research Grant (“The Sagada Postboy as Cultural Memory, Practical Nostalgia, and the Formation of Sagada’s Cultural Capital,” ongoing)