Ned Parfan
Asst. Prof. Benedict B. Parfan, MFA
Faculty of Arts and Letters
University of Santo Tomas
[email protected]
DIRECTOR
University of Santo Tomas Publishing HouseMEMBER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Book Development Association of the PhilippinesMEMBER, ADVISORY COMMITTEE
National Book Development Trust FundASSISTANT PROFESSOR
UST Department of Creative WritingFACULTY RESEARCHER
UST Research Center for Culture, Arts and HumanitiesRESIDENT FELLOW
UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies
Published Works
BOOKS
POETRY
The Murmur Asylum: Poems
University of the Philippines Press, 2014
Tilt Me and I Bend: Poems
University of the Philippines Press, 2017
Beloved Antimatter: Poems
(Philippine Writers Series)
University of the Philippines Press,2024
TRANSLATION
The Vanished
Translation of Chuckberry J. Pascual's Ang Nawawala
19th Avenida Publishing House, 2023
JOURNALS (Selected)
ANTHOLOGIES (Selected)
Other works appear in the following selected anthologies:
Crowns and Oranges:
Works by Young Philippine Poets
Edited by Cirilo F. Bautista and Ken Ishikawa
Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2009Under the Storm:
An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry
Edited by Khavn De La Cruz and Joel M. Toledo
Antithesis Collective, 2011Sustaining the Archipelago:
An Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry
Edited by Rina Garcia Chua
UST Publishing House, 2017The Achieve of, The Mastery:
Filipino Poetry and Verse from English,
Mid-'90s to 2016, Volume II
Edited by Gemino H. Abad
and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
University of the Philippines Press, 2018Plus/+, at Iba Plus, Maramihan:
New Philippine Fiction on Sexual Orientations
and Gender Identities
Edited by Rolando B. Tolentino and Chuckberry J. Pascual
Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2022
Academic Profile
AB major in Journalism, University of Santo Tomas, 2007
MFA in Creative Writing, De La Salle University, 2013
Current student, PhD in Creative Writing program, University of the Philippines-Diliman
Courses Conducted
LIT3191: Introduction to Literature and Literary Studies
CW3272: Introduction to Creative Writing
LIT203: Poetry
LIT102A: Philippine Literatures
LIT209: Creative Writing (for AB Literature students)
HUM1: Art, Man and Society
Presentations (Selected)
Speaker, On Writing Beloved Antimatter in UST Authors Series Presents: Ang Nawawalang Puso, Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, University of Santo Tomas, February 2025
Speaker, How Free is Academic Publishing in Asia? Asia Stage, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, October 2024
Speaker, Ang Nawawala sa Pagsasalin ng 'Ang Nawawala' ni Chuckberry J. Pascual in UST Authors Series Presents: The Vanishing Point, Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, University of
Santo Tomas, April 2024
Speaker, Pressing Issues: The Universe of University Publishers, Philippine International Literary Festival (Virtual), May 2021
Speaker, The Literature of Violence (Panel), Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference, University of Macau, November 2019
Speaker, The Polyphony of the Philippines (Panel), Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference, University of Macau, November 2019
Speaker, Kultura, Sining, At Iba Pa Episode 07: Contemporary Philippine Poetry, TVUP, August 2018
Speaker, UST Authors Series presents: Maskara (Featuring Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo and Ned Parfan), Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, University of Santo Tomas, February 2018
Speaker, University of the Philippines Press Panel, Philippine Readers and Writers Festival, Raffles Hotel, Makati City, August 2017
Speaker, Panel Lecture on Poetry, 3rd Thomasian Undergraduate Writers Workshop, St. Raymund’s Building, University of Santo Tomas, June 2016
Speaker, Against Time: The Work of Memory in Memoir and Poetry (UST Authors Series), Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, University of Santo Tomas, April 2015
Speaker, Graduate Research Forum, Bro. Andrew Gonzalez Hall, De La Salle University, March 2015
Speaker, Kritika Kultura Reading Series Presents Laurel Fantauzzo and Ned Parfan, New Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University, January 2015
Speaker, New Trends in Philippine Writing (University of the Philippines Press Panel), Philippine International Literary Festival, Raffles Hotel, Makati City, October 2014
Media
Readings from Tilt Me and I Bend
Soundcloud Audiobook
(All rights reserved)
