Resil B. Mojares

   Resil B. Mojares(1943) Resil  B.  Mojares, is a professor emeritus at the University of San Carlos and a member of the editorial board of the Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. He was named a National Artist in Literature in 2018. Resil B. Mojares was born on  September 4, 1943 in Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte.  He attended public schools in Mindanao before attending Silliman University in Dumaguete City and the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City. He began teaching at University of zsan Carlos (USC) in 1965 and became the Cebuano Studies Center's founding director ten years later. In 1979, he received his PhD in Literature from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. Aside from time as a visiting scholar in the United States, Japan, and Singapore, he is a homegrown intellectual. He also one of the first Cebuanos to become a political prisoner during Martial Law, arrested on September 23, 1972, the day Marcos ...