Full-Time Faculty

Ferdinand T. Cantular
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Department Chair, Associate Professor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Language Studies
• MA in English
• MA in Pastoral Ministry/Theology
• AB English
• AB Philosophy

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Research on Literary and Linguistic studies, Creative and Technical Writing, Local and Indigenous Literature, Mindanaoan folklore and mythology, Osmosis of Theology, Philosophy and Literature, Linguistic Analysis in a Literary work, collection of books, shell collection, photography

RESEARCH

• Man's Search for Meaning as Expressed in Herman Melville's Moby Dick
• Theological Dimension in Six Filipino Poets in English
• Morphological Borrowing: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Cagay-anon Sebuano Verb Affix Adaptation

Ann Catherine T. Acenas
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Associate Professor

EDUCATION

• Master in English Language Studies
• BA Broadcast Communication

RESEARCH

• Descriptive Study on Dubbing of Foreign Cartoons and its Implications and Effects to the Filipino Children's Viewing
• Special Project: A Course in Advanced Speech Communication

Cathelyn C. Adajar
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Associate Professor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Education (Complete Academic Requirements)
• Ph.D. Sociology (15 units)
• MA English
• AB English Literature (Cum Laude)

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Humanities: Art, Aesthetics, & Society, Literary Criticism, Film Criticism, Speech Communication, Public Speaking, Philippine Literature in English, British Literature

RESEARCH

• Themes in Selected Youth-Oriented Filipino Films of the 1990s
• Film Adaptations of Grimms Fairy Tales

Kleone S. Butaslac
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Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA Applied Linguistics
• AB/BSE English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Language Learning and Teaching, Discourse Analysis, TESL, IM Development

RESEARCH

• Apology Lexemes and Redressive Strategies in Campus

Nancy P. Cocamas
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Assistant Professor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Sociology (Candidate)
• MA Education - School Management
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• American Literature, British Literature, Afro-Asian Literature, Philippine Literature, World Literature, World Drama, World Poetry, World Fiction, Myths/Legends/Folklore, Ethnic Literature, Language and Culture/Ethnolinguistics, Language and Society/Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching: Principles, Methods, and Techniques, Language Testing, Reading Remediation, Syllabus Construction, ELLT Materials Preparation and Evaluation, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Research Methods

RESEARCH

• The Moro- Moro Play: Its Origin and Variations
• The Strengths and Weaknesses of Evaluation Instruments in English One at Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City during Second Semester SY 1997-1998 and the First Semester SY 1998-1999

Dennis P. Corbita
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Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English
• AB English Language and Literature Studies

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Humanities and Arts, Corporate Communication/Business English

RESEARCH

• The Supernatural Characteristics in the Selected Filipino Horror films from 2004-2009

Lilia A. Cotejar
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Associate Professor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. ELL (Candidate)
• MA English
• BSE English

RESEARCH

• The Woman Characters in the Short Stories of Selected Filipino Woman Writers
• Gender, Class and Nationalism: Women's Triple Struggle in the Postcolonial Fiction of Selected Southeast Asian Women Writers

Geraldine P. Eligan (On Leave)
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Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English
• MA Education major in Teaching English Communication Arts
• AB English Language

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Intensive grammar, academic writing, research, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English as a Second Language (ESL), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC

RESEARCH

• Affective Variables on Oral Communication Skills of Education Lower Classmen in Lourdes College, Cagayan de Oro City
• Enculturation in the Semantic Variations of Compliment Responses in English among Cagayan de Oro and Singapore Women

Rogelio F. Garcia Jr. (On Study Leave)
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Instructor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. English (on-going)
• MA English
• AB English

RESEARCH

• Analysis of Variance: A Reconstructional Study on Cagayan de Oro's Legends of Origin
• Fighting from Fringes: Representations of Filipino Women in the Independent Films of Brillante Mendoza

Mark E. Labuntog (On Secondment in Campion Institute, Yangon Myanmar)
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Associate Professor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Educational Management
• MA English
• AB English

Jennifer Red E. Sabela
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Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English
• AB English
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Philippine Literature, Literatures of the World, Speech Communication, Children’s Literature, Academic Writing, The Tradition of Fiction, Advanced Expository Writing, Literary Research

RESEARCH

• Image of Children and Themes in the Children’s Book Series of Grace D. Chong

Saministrado, Maria Luisa S.
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Professor

EDUCATION

• PhD English
• PhD Educational Management
• MA English
• AB Philosophy/English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Literary Criticism, Critical Thinking and Writing, Short Stories, Novels, Cross-Cultural Communication

RESEARCH

• Female Victimhood and Suicide in the Naturalistic NovelVerbal Interactions and Literature Classes: Implications on the Use of the Ignatian Paradigm to Teaching

Lumin Christy Sario
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Instructor

EDUCATION

• PhD Language Studies (6 units)
• MA Education major in English Language Teaching
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Linguistics, TESL, TEFL, TESOL, Bilingualism, Speech Communication, Business Communication, Registers of English, Academic Writing, Philippine Literature in English, Grammar and Composition, Structure of English

RESEARCH

• The Writing Ability of Freshman College

Hobart P. Savior
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Director, Xavier Center for Culture and the Arts

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Language Studies
• Master in English Language Studies
• AB English

Arlene J. Yandug
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Associate Professor

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Creative Writing
• MA English
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• poetry, memory and literature, regional/local literature, poetry of place, ecocriticism, genre bending in children’s literature, art and society, Philippine literature in English, translation

RESEARCH

• The Creative Production of Open Form Poems and Haiku
• Remembering the South: Poems At Home With Mindanao and Elsewhere
• The Regulation of Gender Relations Through Customary Laws in the Specific Contexts of Courtship, Marriage and Marital Conflicts as Reflected in the Agyo Epic
• Sketching The Poetic Terrain of Philippine Women Poets
• The Translation of Bisdak Humor in Adonis Durado’s Poetry: Foregrounding the Bilingual Reader’s Position
• The Confessional Mode and Social Dimension in Cyril Wong’s Poetry
• Home Hymn Hubad: Translation as Disentangling Locations of Ethnic Identities and Home Claims
• Poestory: Liminality or The Poetics of the Threshold in Children’s Literature

Aimee Abella-Faunillan
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Assistant Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English
• Bachelor of Science in Business Management

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Philippine Literature, Academic Writing, Literary Theory and Criticism, Literary Research, Postmodern Criticism, Creative Writing, The Novel, Literature and History, Creative Nonfiction

RESEARCH

• Counter-Memory to Philippine Marcosian History: Arlene J. Chai's Eating Fire and Drinking Water as Historiographic Metafiction

 Part-Time Faculty 

Luzviminda Binolhay
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Lecturer

EDUCATION

• AB English

Christine Gumalal
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Lecturer

EDUCATION

• MA English (30 units)
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Folklore, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Arts and Humanities  

RESEARCH

• An Analysis of Variations of the Oro Lore in Cagayan de Oro City

Andre Dominic T. Peralta
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Assistant Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English (Candidate)
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Academic Writing, Business Correspondence, English Grammar, Psychological Approaches in Literature

RESEARCH

• Self-esteem and Oral Proficiency of English 3 StudentsSelf-esteem and Oral Proficiency of English 3
• StudentsReligious Themes and Insights in Mindanaoan Folktales

Bombei Samante
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Assistant Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English Literature (Thesis Proposal)
• AB English Literature

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Literature, Philosophy, Physics

RESEARCH

• Moral Issues in Mindanao Stories

Dr. Bernadette S. Tismo
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Professor

Full Profile

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Language Education
• MA English
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Applied Linguistics, Structure of English, Corporate Communications, Advanced Grammar & Composition, Phonology & Phonetics, TESL, TESOL, British Literature, Romantic Movement, Shakespearean Tragedy, American Literature, Philippine Literature

RESEARCH

• Imagery in the Bible
• Language Power: A Critical Discourse Analysis in Academic Setting

Faculty Members

Candy Grace Castañares
ccastañares@xu.edu.ph
Lecturer

EDUCATION

• MA Communication Arts English (33 units)
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – Information Technology

Maria Veronica Large
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Lecturer

EDUCATION

• MA English (on-going)
• Special Education Diploma Certificate
• Professional Education Certificate of Completion
• AB Developmental Communication

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Business Correspondence, Creative Writing, Theater Arts

RESEARCH

• Co-Author/Editor of: In Late 1941 and Into The Fray by Carl Alan Large
• Assistant Researcher: University Staff Performance Evaluation Tool

Maria Luisa Manrique
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Lecturer

EDUCATION

• MA Education major in Teaching English Communication Arts (Complete Academic Requirements)
• BS Education major in English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Academic Writing, Language Research, Language and Society, Speech Communication, Business Correspondence, Call Center English, Applied Linguistics, Critical Theory

RESEARCH

• Pleasure Reading and its Influence in Reading Comprehension

Jenifer F. Nara
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Assistant Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA Education major in English
• AB English Literature

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Philippine Literature, Philippine Literature in English, World Literature, Humanities, Language in Culture, Cebuano Language, Academic Writing, Business Correspondence, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Literary History of the Philippines, Teaching and Testing Literature, Literature in English, Children's Literature, Mindanao Folk Literature, Women's Literature, Teaching English as a Second Language

RESEARCH

• Maranao Proverbs
• The American Influences Reflected in the Short Stories of Filipino Writers in America: Complexities of Physical-Psychological Struggles

April Jade A. Ramayan
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Assistant Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English (Candidate)
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Folklore, Philippine Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Literary Research, Postmodern and Postcolonial Literature, Speech Communication

RESEARCH

• The Wakwak Tales of Initao Misamis Oriental
• Gossip as History: The Alternative History of Negros Occidental in the Selected Short Stories of Rosario Cruz-Lucero

Maria Estella V. Sanchez
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Assistant Instructor

EDUCATION

• MA English (Candidate)
• AB English

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Academic Writing, Philippine Literature, Humanities, Art and Society, Film Criticism

RESEARCH

• Critical Analysis of NVM Gonzalez’ Short Stories

Hannah Eduave
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Administrative Staff

EDUCATION

• MA units in School Administration (COC-PHINMA)
• Diploma in Special Education (MUST)
• BSBA Economics

Edbert O. Galendez
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Speech Laboratory Technician

EDUCATION

• 3-year Electronic Technology (Diploma)
• Certificate in Business Communication
• AB English (on-going)