EHe teaches film theory and political economy of media at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. He studied film and media for his doctorate degree at the University of Oregon where he taught film theory and history of the motion picture. His scholarly works, which dwell on the intersection of postcolonial theory, cinemas of the Global South, and indigeneity, are published in national and international journals, won the Southeast Asian Studies Award from the Center of Asian and Pacific Studies and received a fellowship at the Oregon Humanities Center. He has served as director of Xavier University Press and taught nonfiction at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the associate editor of Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image. He has been a fellow at the Silliman National Writers Workshop, Iligan National Writers Workshop (where he received the Jimmy Balacuit Award for Drama), Ateneo National Writers Workshop, and KRITIKA. His poetry, fiction, and essays are published in literary anthologies and journals in the Philippines. He has worked as a theater and film actor, dramaturg, playwright, and translator.

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