Maria Teresa Trinidad P. Tinio

Dr. Tino completed her Master of English, major in Literature and Cultural Studies, Ateneo de Manila University with academic units from the New School for Social Research, New York City, and obtained her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.

Her research focus is on Philippine Literature, Sociolinguistics, and the Politics of Language in Southeast Asia. She also contributed to the CCP Encyclopaedia of the Arts, the Loyola Schools Review, Philippine Studies, and The Politics of English in Asia: Language Policy and Cultural Expression in South and Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific published by John Benjamins (The Netherlands).